NRDY vs. LINC, VTRU, APEI, UTI, QSG, YQ, IH, MPX, MCS, and EEX
Should you be buying Nerdy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nerdy include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Marine Products (MPX), Marcus (MCS), and Emerald (EEX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) and Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln Educational Services currently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 22.13%. Nerdy has a consensus target price of $4.82, indicating a potential upside of 136.34%. Given Lincoln Educational Services' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Lincoln Educational Services.
Lincoln Educational Services received 242 more outperform votes than Nerdy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 58.49% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services and Lincoln Educational Services both had 6 articles in the media. Nerdy's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of 0.38 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of -14.49%. Nerdy's return on equity of 9.79% beat Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity.
72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.1% of Nerdy shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.4% of Nerdy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Nerdy on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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