PRDO vs. GHC, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, AFYA, UDMY, HTZ, DAO, IRS, and EVGO
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), Udemy (UDMY), Hertz Global (HTZ), Youdao (DAO), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), and EVgo (EVGO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Perdoceo Education vs.
Graham (NYSE:GHC) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Graham pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Perdoceo Education pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Graham pays out 14.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Perdoceo Education pays out 23.6% 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.
Graham received 81 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.91% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 62.33% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Perdoceo Education had 20 more articles in the media than Graham. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Perdoceo Education and 4 mentions for Graham. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Graham's score of 0.31 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Perdoceo Education has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.77%. Given Perdoceo Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Perdoceo Education is more favorable than Graham.
93.2% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. 20.5% of Graham shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by 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.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Graham's net margin of 4.86%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 16.85% beat Graham's return on equity.
Graham has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Graham on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PRDO) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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