PRDO vs. GHC, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, AFYA, IRS, UDMY, HTZ, DAO, and SDA
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Udemy (UDMY), Hertz Global (HTZ), Youdao (DAO), and SunCar Technology Group (SDA). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Perdoceo Education vs.
Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and Graham (NYSE:GHC) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Graham has higher revenue and earnings than Perdoceo Education. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graham received 86 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.86% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 20.42% compared to Graham's net margin of 4.86%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 15.58% beat Graham's return on equity.
Perdoceo Education currently has a consensus price target of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.98%. Given Perdoceo Education's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Perdoceo Education is more favorable than Graham.
Perdoceo Education has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Graham had 1 more articles in the media than Perdoceo Education. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Graham and 3 mentions for Perdoceo Education. Graham's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Perdoceo Education's score of 1.30 indicating that Graham is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Graham shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Perdoceo Education pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Graham pays an annual dividend of $6.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Perdoceo Education pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Graham pays out 13.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Perdoceo Education and Graham tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PRDO) was last updated on 12/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
