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Grand Canyon Education (LOPE) Competitors

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$166.45 +4.32 (+2.66%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

LOPE vs. BFAM, LRN, ATGE, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, EDU, TAL, and GHC

Should you be buying Grand Canyon Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grand Canyon Education include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.

Grand Canyon Education vs.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bright Horizons Family Solutions$2.63B2.50$74.22M$1.9956.82
Grand Canyon Education$1.02B4.76$204.99M$7.6121.87

Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 22.09% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 4.44%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.01% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bright Horizons Family Solutions4.44% 13.23% 4.39%
Grand Canyon Education 22.09%31.01%23.55%

94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $141.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.13%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $179.67, indicating a potential upside of 7.94%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than Grand Canyon Education.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Grand Canyon Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 11 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 5 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 1.39 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
10 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Grand Canyon Education
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Grand Canyon Education received 94 more outperform votes than Bright Horizons Family Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.11% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 57.66% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bright Horizons Family SolutionsOutperform Votes
414
57.66%
Underperform Votes
304
42.34%
Grand Canyon EducationOutperform Votes
508
67.11%
Underperform Votes
249
32.89%

Summary

Grand Canyon Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LOPE vs. The Competition

MetricGrand Canyon EducationEducational services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$4.85B$926.49M$8.54B$8.84B
Dividend YieldN/A6.48%2.77%4.09%
P/E Ratio21.8711.7719.7217.83
Price / Sales4.761.327.72158.41
Price / Cash19.8021.3433.2236.29
Price / Book6.351.763.706.50
Net Income$204.99M$21.95M$267.23M$226.22M
7 Day Performance4.28%1.86%1.58%4.03%
1 Month Performance23.73%1.05%1.19%4.92%
1 Year Performance21.38%7.64%17.33%29.30%

Grand Canyon Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.32 of 5 stars
$166.45
+2.7%
$179.67
+7.9%
+21.4%$4.85B$1.02B21.875,800Positive News
BFAM
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
4.8803 of 5 stars
$110.82
+2.3%
$141.50
+27.7%
+27.9%$6.45B$2.42B55.6431,400Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
LRN
Stride
3.2759 of 5 stars
$103.35
+0.5%
$90.17
-12.8%
+76.7%$4.50B$2.04B18.807,800Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.4832 of 5 stars
$88.82
+1.8%
$85.00
-4.3%
+57.8%$3.33B$1.58B20.329,938
STRA
Strategic Education
4.5332 of 5 stars
$96.66
+1.2%
$126.00
+30.4%
+10.5%$2.37B$1.13B18.413,774Dividend Announcement
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
3.7707 of 5 stars
$23.61
+18.7%
$24.00
+1.7%
+116.2%$1.27B$607.41M47.223,000Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
4.0613 of 5 stars
$15.60
+1.4%
$18.00
+15.4%
+66.0%$491.09M$378.07M48.562,300Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
APEI
American Public Education
4.7074 of 5 stars
$19.55
+2.2%
$23.00
+17.6%
+197.9%$346.23M$600.54M34.916,037
EDU
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
3.714 of 5 stars
$57.76
+1.8%
$99.67
+72.5%
-20.1%$9.80B$4.31B24.6875,005Positive News
TAL
TAL Education Group
2.4244 of 5 stars
$9.82
-3.1%
$14.80
+50.7%
-1.2%$5.94B$1.84B89.1815,000Stock Split
GHC
Graham
2.9552 of 5 stars
$918.70
+1.3%
N/A+46.8%$3.98B$4.41B17.7519,900

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This page (NASDAQ:LOPE) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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