UPBD vs. AL, MGRC, PRG, CTOS, AAN, KPLT, FPAY, URI, AER, and CMA
Should you be buying Upbound Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Upbound Group include Air Lease (AL), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), PROG (PRG), Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), Aaron's (AAN), Katapult (KPLT), FlexShopper (FPAY), United Rentals (URI), AerCap (AER), and Comerica (CMA).
Air Lease (NYSE:AL) and Upbound Group (NASDAQ:UPBD) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Air Lease has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Upbound Group. Upbound Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Air Lease, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Air Lease had 1 more articles in the media than Upbound Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Air Lease and 4 mentions for Upbound Group. Air Lease's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Upbound Group's score of 0.77 indicating that Upbound Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Air Lease currently has a consensus price target of $53.80, indicating a potential upside of 14.30%. Upbound Group has a consensus price target of $38.17, indicating a potential upside of 21.94%. Given Air Lease's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Upbound Group is more favorable than Air Lease.
Air Lease has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Upbound Group has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.6% of Air Lease shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Upbound Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Air Lease shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Upbound Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Air Lease received 573 more outperform votes than Upbound Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.22% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Upbound Group an outperform vote.
Air Lease pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Upbound Group pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Air Lease pays out 16.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Upbound Group pays out -321.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Air Lease has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Upbound Group has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Upbound Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Air Lease has a net margin of 21.89% compared to Air Lease's net margin of -0.61%. Air Lease's return on equity of 33.40% beat Upbound Group's return on equity.
Summary
Air Lease beats Upbound Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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