LINC vs. APEI, UTI, VTRU, NRDY, QSG, IH, SSP, LIND, WOW, and CVEO
Should you be buying Lincoln Educational Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lincoln Educational Services include American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Vitru (VTRU), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), iHuman (IH), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), WideOpenWest (WOW), and Civeo (CVEO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, American Public Education had 4 more articles in the media than Lincoln Educational Services. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for American Public Education and 6 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services. American Public Education's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of 1.00 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Public Education presently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.56%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus target price of $14.38, suggesting a potential upside of 22.13%. Given American Public Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than American Public Education.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of -6.78%. American Public Education's return on equity of 9.79% beat Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Public Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
American Public Education received 62 more outperform votes than Lincoln Educational Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
Lincoln Educational Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Public Education. American Public Education 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.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats American Public Education on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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