SAVE vs. SNCY, HA, VLRS, ALGT, ULCC, CLCO, OSG, FLYX, WLFC, and YELLQ
Should you be buying Spirit Airlines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spirit Airlines include Sun Country Airlines (SNCY), Hawaiian (HA), Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (VLRS), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), Frontier Group (ULCC), Cool (CLCO), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), flyExclusive (FLYX), Willis Lease Finance (WLFC), and Yellow (YELLQ). These companies are all part of the "transportation" sector.
Sun Country Airlines (NASDAQ:SNCY) and Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
58.7% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Sun Country Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Spirit Airlines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Spirit Airlines had 20 more articles in the media than Sun Country Airlines. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Spirit Airlines and 2 mentions for Sun Country Airlines. Spirit Airlines' average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Sun Country Airlines' score of -0.13 indicating that Sun Country Airlines is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sun Country Airlines has a net margin of 6.48% compared to Sun Country Airlines' net margin of -9.21%. Spirit Airlines' return on equity of 14.35% beat Sun Country Airlines' return on equity.
Sun Country Airlines presently has a consensus target price of $19.17, indicating a potential upside of 78.29%. Spirit Airlines has a consensus target price of $3.57, indicating a potential downside of 6.02%. Given Spirit Airlines' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Sun Country Airlines is more favorable than Spirit Airlines.
Sun Country Airlines has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirit Airlines has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Spirit Airlines received 6 more outperform votes than Sun Country Airlines when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 33.33% of users gave Sun Country Airlines an outperform vote while only 31.76% of users gave Spirit Airlines an outperform vote.
Sun Country Airlines has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Spirit Airlines. Spirit Airlines is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sun Country Airlines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sun Country Airlines beats Spirit Airlines on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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