STRA vs. PRDO, GSX, BFAM, LOPE, LRN, ATGE, UTI, LINC, APEI, and TAL
Should you be buying Strategic Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Education include Perdoceo Education (PRDO), GSX Techedu (GSX), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), and TAL Education Group (TAL).
Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Perdoceo Education pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Strategic Education pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Perdoceo Education pays out 19.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Strategic Education pays out 56.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Strategic Education shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are held 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.
Perdoceo Education has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Strategic Education. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Strategic Education received 327 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.54% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Perdoceo Education presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.11%. Strategic Education has a consensus target price of $133.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.70%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
In the previous week, Strategic Education had 2 more articles in the media than Perdoceo Education. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Strategic Education and 2 mentions for Perdoceo Education. Strategic Education's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Perdoceo Education's score of 0.45 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Perdoceo Education's net margin of 8.70%. Strategic Education's return on equity of 17.09% beat Perdoceo Education's return on equity.
Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Education has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Strategic Education beats Perdoceo Education on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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