LOPE vs. BFAM, LRN, STRA, ATGE, UTI, LINC, APEI, EDU, TAL, and GHC
Should you be buying Grand Canyon Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grand Canyon Education include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Grand Canyon Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Grand Canyon Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 6 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 4 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 1.41 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grand Canyon Education received 90 more outperform votes than Bright Horizons Family Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of 3.34%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity of 31.81% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $107.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.43%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $165.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.45%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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