Financial Contrast: flyExclusive (FLYX) versus Its Rivals

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

Profitability

This table compares flyExclusive and its competitors’ 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%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for flyExclusive and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
flyExclusive	0	0	0	1	4.00
flyExclusive Competitors	1472	3999	6553	344	2.47

flyExclusive presently has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 483.33%. As a group, “Passenger Airlines” companies have a potential upside of 45.62%. Given flyExclusive’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe flyExclusive is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
flyExclusive	$384.10 million	-$46.83 million	-1.35
flyExclusive Competitors	$14.36 billion	$623.26 million	16.73

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

13.0% of flyExclusive shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.6% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are owned by institutional investors. 90.1% of flyExclusive shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of shares of all “Passenger Airlines” companies are owned by company 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.

Risk and Volatility

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

Summary

flyExclusive competitors 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.