Critical Survey: flyExclusive (FLYX) versus Its Competitors

flyExclusive (NYSE:FLYX) is one of 81 publicly-traded companies in the “Passenger Airlines” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare flyExclusive to related companies based on the strength of its risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

13.0% of flyExclusive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are owned by institutional investors. 90.1% of flyExclusive shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for flyExclusive and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
flyExclusive	0	0	1	1	3.50
flyExclusive Competitors	1483	4010	6584	349	2.47

flyExclusive presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 434.35%. As a group, “Passenger Airlines” companies have a potential upside of 12.39%. Given flyExclusive’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe flyExclusive is more favorable than its peers.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares flyExclusive and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
flyExclusive	$403.89 million	-$46.83 million	-1.66
flyExclusive Competitors	$14.39 billion	$623.26 million	17.09

flyExclusive’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than flyExclusive. flyExclusive is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares flyExclusive and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
flyExclusive	-20.19%	N/A	-13.69%
flyExclusive Competitors	-17.59%	-6.99%	-0.38%

Volatility and Risk

flyExclusive has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, flyExclusive’s peers have a beta of 16.96, meaning that their average stock price is 1,596% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

flyExclusive peers beat flyExclusive on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About flyExclusive

flyExclusive, Inc., through its subsidiary, LGM Enterprises, LLC., owns and operates private jets in North America. It also offers jet charter services; and aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul (MRO) operations, and interior and exterior refurbishment services, as well as wholesale and retail ad hoc flights, a jet club program, partnership program, fractional program, and other services. The company is headquartered in Kinston, North Carolina.