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$25.93 +0.13 (+0.50%)
Closing price 04/15/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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PRDO vs. TAL, GHC, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, AFYA, HTZ, UDMY, IRS, and DAO

Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), Hertz Global (HTZ), Udemy (UDMY), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), and Youdao (DAO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.

Perdoceo Education vs.

Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Perdoceo Education pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. TAL Education Group pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.3%. Perdoceo Education pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TAL Education Group pays out 947.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Perdoceo Education has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TAL Education Group. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TAL Education Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Perdoceo Education$681.26M2.51$147.65M$2.2011.79
TAL Education Group$2.07B2.87-$3.57M$0.1951.76

Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.03, suggesting that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Perdoceo Education currently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.98%. TAL Education Group has a consensus price target of $15.53, indicating a potential upside of 57.94%. Given TAL Education Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TAL Education Group is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Perdoceo Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
TAL Education Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Perdoceo Education had 7 more articles in the media than TAL Education Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Perdoceo Education and 4 mentions for TAL Education Group. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat TAL Education Group's score of 0.14 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Perdoceo Education
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
TAL Education Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to TAL Education Group's net margin of 5.77%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 16.85% beat TAL Education Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Perdoceo Education21.66% 16.85% 13.76%
TAL Education Group 5.77%3.22%2.23%

TAL Education Group received 467 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.91% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 61.62% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Perdoceo EducationOutperform Votes
58
65.91%
Underperform Votes
30
34.09%
TAL Education GroupOutperform Votes
525
61.62%
Underperform Votes
327
38.38%

93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Perdoceo Education beats TAL Education Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PRDO vs. The Competition

MetricPerdoceo EducationEducational services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.71B$937.29M$7.06B$7.57B
Dividend Yield2.02%9.03%3.51%4.33%
P/E Ratio11.7910.3915.8417.81
Price / Sales2.511.487.4894.58
Price / Cash10.5727.8916.4234.64
Price / Book1.782.214.124.00
Net Income$147.65M$22.13M$259.47M$247.23M
7 Day Performance3.80%6.13%5.32%7.26%
1 Month Performance5.41%-5.21%-6.82%-6.26%
1 Year Performance53.89%-1.32%-6.65%-0.18%

Perdoceo Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PRDO
Perdoceo Education
4.33 of 5 stars
$25.93
+0.5%
$35.00
+35.0%
+53.9%$1.71B$681.26M11.794,500Positive News
Gap Down
TAL
TAL Education Group
3.0505 of 5 stars
$10.91
-11.1%
$15.53
+42.3%
-16.4%$6.60B$2.07B57.4516,200Stock Split
Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
GHC
Graham
1.9535 of 5 stars
$888.46
-3.8%
N/A+29.9%$3.86B$4.79B17.4019,900Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LAUR
Laureate Education
4.0499 of 5 stars
$18.71
-1.4%
$20.00
+6.9%
+38.5%$2.82B$1.57B9.6435,000Positive News
Gap Down
DRVN
Driven Brands
3.8235 of 5 stars
$15.43
-4.2%
$20.50
+32.9%
+12.8%$2.53B$2.34B385.759,900Gap Down
MCW
Mister Car Wash
1.8304 of 5 stars
$7.16
-1.8%
$8.43
+17.7%
+10.0%$2.32B$994.73M32.556,350Gap Down
AFYA
Afya
2.0519 of 5 stars
$16.99
-0.5%
$17.60
+3.6%
+6.1%$1.59B$3.30B13.708,080News Coverage
HTZ
Hertz Global
N/A$3.94
+6.5%
N/A-47.1%$1.21B$9.05B-0.4225,000Gap Down
UDMY
Udemy
3.6145 of 5 stars
$6.04
-9.2%
$10.68
+76.9%
-37.2%$892.37M$786.57M-10.601,680Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
IRS
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima
1.4269 of 5 stars
$11.73
-6.5%
$13.00
+10.8%
+46.7%$888.78M$319.75B-2.751,401News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
DAO
Youdao
0.7128 of 5 stars
$6.87
-3.2%
N/A+90.8%$831.08M$5.63B68.736,100News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
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