AL vs. ALK, R, FRO, GATX, GXO, CAR, HRI, LSTR, KEX, and STNG
Should you be buying Air Lease stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Air Lease include Alaska Air Group (ALK), Ryder System (R), Frontline (FRO), GATX (GATX), GXO Logistics (GXO), Avis Budget Group (CAR), Herc (HRI), Landstar System (LSTR), Kirby (KEX), and Scorpio Tankers (STNG). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Air Lease (NYSE:AL) and Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) are both mid-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Air Lease presently has a consensus price target of $53.80, indicating a potential upside of 9.19%. Alaska Air Group has a consensus price target of $56.60, indicating a potential upside of 30.76%. Given Alaska Air Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alaska Air Group is more favorable than Air Lease.
Air Lease has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alaska Air Group. Air Lease is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alaska Air Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Air Lease has a net margin of 21.89% compared to Alaska Air Group's net margin of 2.34%. Alaska Air Group's return on equity of 13.54% beat Air Lease's return on equity.
Alaska Air Group received 243 more outperform votes than Air Lease when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.22% of users gave Air Lease an outperform vote while only 69.61% of users gave Alaska Air Group an outperform vote.
Air Lease has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alaska Air Group has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.6% of Air Lease shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.6% of Air Lease shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Alaska Air Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Alaska Air Group had 21 more articles in the media than Air Lease. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Alaska Air Group and 6 mentions for Air Lease. Air Lease's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Alaska Air Group's score of 0.80 indicating that Air Lease is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Air Lease beats Alaska Air Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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