LRN vs. BFAM, LOPE, STRA, ATGE, UTI, LINC, APEI, TAL, GHC, and LAUR
Should you be buying Stride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stride include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), and Laureate Education (LAUR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Stride (NYSE:LRN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 8 more articles in the media than Stride. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 2 mentions for Stride. Stride's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' score of 0.83 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Stride's net margin of 3.34%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity of 18.29% beat Stride's return on equity.
Stride has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Stride 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.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 35 more outperform votes than Stride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $107.43, indicating a potential downside of 0.25%. Stride has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.10%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Stride is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stride has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Stride shares are owned 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.
Summary
Stride beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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