LINC vs. GPX, DL, REDU, RYB, TEDU, UTI, APEI, BFAM, LOPE, and LRN
Should you be buying Lincoln Educational Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lincoln Educational Services include GP Strategies (GPX), China Distance Education (DL), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), RYB Education (RYB), Tarena International (TEDU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), American Public Education (APEI), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), and Stride (LRN).
GP Strategies (NYSE:GPX) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus target price of $14.38, suggesting a potential upside of 21.93%. Given GP Strategies' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than GP Strategies.
GP Strategies has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 2 more articles in the media than GP Strategies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 2 mentions for GP Strategies. GP Strategies' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GP Strategies received 121 more outperform votes than Lincoln Educational Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.12% of users gave GP Strategies an outperform vote while only 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote.
62.0% of GP Strategies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.0% of GP Strategies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by 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.
Lincoln Educational Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GP Strategies. Lincoln Educational Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GP Strategies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of 2.73%. GP Strategies' return on equity of 9.79% beat Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats GP Strategies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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