BFAM vs. LOPE, LRN, STRA, ATGE, UTI, LINC, APEI, LYV, RCI, and K
Should you be buying Bright Horizons Family Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Horizons Family Solutions include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Rogers Communications (RCI), and Kellanova (K). 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
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.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education had 1 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Grand Canyon Education and 8 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 1.34 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $107.43, suggesting a potential upside of 3.88%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus price target of $165.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.57%. Given Grand Canyon Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 3.34%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.81% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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