Financial Contrast: flyExclusive (FLYX) versus Its Peers

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 similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Volatility & 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.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

13.0% of flyExclusive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are owned by institutional investors. 90.1% of flyExclusive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for flyExclusive and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
flyExclusive	0	0	0	1	4.00
flyExclusive Competitors	1474	4001	6556	345	2.47

flyExclusive presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 442.64%. As a group, “Passenger Airlines” companies have a potential upside of 47.28%. Given flyExclusive’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe flyExclusive is more favorable than its peers.

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	-16.48%	8.22%	0.46%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares flyExclusive and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
flyExclusive	$384.10 million	-$46.83 million	-1.45
flyExclusive Competitors	$14.56 billion	$623.26 million	16.53

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.

Summary

flyExclusive peers beat flyExclusive on 9 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.