IH vs. CHGG, LINC, NRDY, APEI, VTRU, VSTA, QSG, STG, YQ, and KUKE
Should you be buying iHuman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iHuman include Chegg (CHGG), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Nerdy (NRDY), American Public Education (APEI), Vitru (VTRU), Vasta Platform (VSTA), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), and Kuke Music (KUKE). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Chegg (NYSE:CHGG) and iHuman (NYSE:IH) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
95.2% of Chegg shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.9% of iHuman shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Chegg shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.6% of iHuman shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chegg received 794 more outperform votes than iHuman when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Chegg an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave iHuman an outperform vote.
iHuman has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chegg. Chegg is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHuman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chegg has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iHuman has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
iHuman has a net margin of 17.78% compared to iHuman's net margin of 2.07%. Chegg's return on equity of 20.27% beat iHuman's return on equity.
In the previous week, Chegg had 3 more articles in the media than iHuman. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Chegg and 0 mentions for iHuman. iHuman's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Chegg's score of 0.00 indicating that Chegg is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chegg currently has a consensus target price of $7.31, indicating a potential upside of 90.93%. Given iHuman's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chegg is more favorable than iHuman.
Summary
Chegg and iHuman tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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