Reviewing flyExclusive (FLYX) and Its Competitors

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets 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	1482	4009	6581	348	2.47

flyExclusive presently has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 449.02%. As a group, “Passenger Airlines” companies have a potential upside of 11.90%. Given flyExclusive’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe flyExclusive is more favorable than its peers.

Volatility and Risk

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

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%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares flyExclusive and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
flyExclusive	$403.89 million	-$46.83 million	-1.61
flyExclusive Competitors	$14.56 billion	$623.26 million	16.96

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.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

13.0% of flyExclusive shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.6% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are held by institutional investors. 90.1% of flyExclusive shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

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

flyExclusive Company Profile

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.