APEI vs. DL, GPX, BEDU, REDU, UTI, LINC, BFAM, LOPE, LRN, and STRA
Should you be buying American Public Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Public Education include China Distance Education (DL), GP Strategies (GPX), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), and Strategic Education (STRA).
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and China Distance Education (NYSE:DL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
American Public Education presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.30%. Given American Public Education's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Public Education is more favorable than China Distance Education.
American Public Education received 49 more outperform votes than China Distance Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave China Distance Education an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
China Distance Education has a net margin of 4.98% compared to American Public Education's net margin of -6.78%. China Distance Education's return on equity of 8.65% beat American Public Education's return on equity.
In the previous week, American Public Education had 6 more articles in the media than China Distance Education. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for American Public Education and 0 mentions for China Distance Education. American Public Education's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat China Distance Education's score of 0.00 indicating that American Public Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
China Distance Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Public Education. American Public Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than China Distance Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.9% of China Distance Education shares are held by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Public Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.6% of China Distance Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, China Distance Education has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
American Public Education beats China Distance Education on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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