DRVN vs. EDU, TAL, GHC, LAUR, MCW, PRDO, AFYA, UDMY, HTZ, and DAO
Should you be buying Driven Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Driven Brands include New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Udemy (UDMY), Hertz Global (HTZ), and Youdao (DAO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Driven Brands vs.
Driven Brands (NASDAQ:DRVN) and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group received 548 more outperform votes than Driven Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.97% of users gave New Oriental Education & Technology Group an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave Driven Brands an outperform vote.
Driven Brands has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a net margin of 8.13% compared to Driven Brands' net margin of 0.27%. Driven Brands' return on equity of 14.86% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than Driven Brands. New Oriental Education & Technology Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Driven Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Driven Brands currently has a consensus price target of $18.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.32%. New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a consensus price target of $61.20, suggesting a potential upside of 17.18%. Given Driven Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Driven Brands is more favorable than New Oriental Education & Technology Group.
77.1% of Driven Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Driven Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 1 more articles in the media than New Oriental Education & Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Driven Brands and 2 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group. New Oriental Education & Technology Group's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Driven Brands' score of 0.25 indicating that New Oriental Education & Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
New Oriental Education & Technology Group beats Driven Brands on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DRVN) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
