Afya (AFYA) Competitors

TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) and Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Do analysts prefer TAL or AFYA?

TAL Education Group currently has a consensus target price of $14.80, suggesting a potential upside of 49.99%. Afya has a consensus target price of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 24.52%. Given TAL Education Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TAL Education Group is more favorable than Afya.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TAL Education Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Afya	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.80

Which has better earnings and valuation, TAL or AFYA?

Afya has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TAL Education Group. Afya is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TAL Education Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TAL Education Group	$1.49B	4.00	-$3.57M	$0.11	89.70
Afya	$576.09M	N/A	$77.38M	$1.24	12.69

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of TAL or AFYA?

37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is TAL or AFYA more profitable?

Afya has a net margin of 18.42% compared to TAL Education Group's net margin of 3.94%. Afya's return on equity of 19.15% beat TAL Education Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TAL Education Group	3.94%	1.97%	1.41%
Afya	18.42%	19.15%	9.43%

Does the media favor TAL or AFYA?

In the previous week, TAL Education Group and TAL Education Group both had 7 articles in the media. TAL Education Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Afya's score of -0.17 indicating that TAL Education Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
TAL Education Group	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Afya	0 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has more risk and volatility, TAL or AFYA?

TAL Education Group has a beta of -0.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Afya has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TAL or AFYA?

TAL Education Group received 458 more outperform votes than Afya when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.65% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
TAL Education Group	Outperform Votes 524 61.65%	Underperform Votes 326 38.35%
Afya	Outperform Votes 66 54.10%	Underperform Votes 56 45.90%

Summary

TAL Education Group beats Afya on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.