PRDO vs. GPX, DL, APEI, LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, and AFYA
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include GP Strategies (GPX), China Distance Education (DL), American Public Education (APEI), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), and Afya (AFYA).
Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and GP Strategies (NYSE:GPX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, dividends and earnings.
Perdoceo Education presently has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.11%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Perdoceo Education is more favorable than GP Strategies.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to GP Strategies' net margin of 2.73%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 17.09% beat GP Strategies' return on equity.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than GP Strategies. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GP Strategies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GP Strategies has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Perdoceo Education and Perdoceo Education both had 2 articles in the media. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat GP Strategies' score of 0.00 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of GP Strategies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.0% of GP Strategies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GP Strategies received 350 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.12% of users gave GP Strategies an outperform vote while only 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats GP Strategies on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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