LOPE vs. LRN, STRA, ATGE, GHC, LAUR, GSX, AFYA, PRDO, CHGG, and DAO
Should you be buying Grand Canyon Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grand Canyon Education include Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), GSX Techedu (GSX), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Chegg (CHGG), and Youdao (DAO).
Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Stride has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education received 124 more outperform votes than Stride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 66.94% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote.
Stride presently has a consensus target price of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.42%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $163.33, indicating a potential upside of 12.05%. Given Stride's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Stride.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of 9.29%. Stride's return on equity of 31.81% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
Grand Canyon Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stride. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education had 3 more articles in the media than Stride. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Grand Canyon Education and 9 mentions for Stride. Stride's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 0.71 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.2% of Stride shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Stride shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Stride on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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