VSTA vs. UTI, DAO, CHGG, LINC, VTRU, APEI, NRDY, QSG, VEDU, and YQ
Should you be buying Vasta Platform stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vasta Platform include Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Youdao (DAO), Chegg (CHGG), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Visionary Education Technology Holdings Group (VEDU), and 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Vasta Platform (NASDAQ:VSTA) and Universal Technical Institute (NYSE:UTI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
15.8% of Vasta Platform shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.7% of Universal Technical Institute shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Vasta Platform shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Universal Technical Institute shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vasta Platform has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Technical Institute has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vasta Platform presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 71.43%. Universal Technical Institute has a consensus target price of $17.40, suggesting a potential upside of 10.06%. Given Vasta Platform's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Vasta Platform is more favorable than Universal Technical Institute.
Universal Technical Institute received 239 more outperform votes than Vasta Platform when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.14% of users gave Universal Technical Institute an outperform vote while only 47.83% of users gave Vasta Platform an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Universal Technical Institute had 19 more articles in the media than Vasta Platform. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Universal Technical Institute and 4 mentions for Vasta Platform. Vasta Platform's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Universal Technical Institute's score of 0.10 indicating that Vasta Platform is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal Technical Institute has higher revenue and earnings than Vasta Platform. Vasta Platform is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Technical Institute, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Technical Institute has a net margin of 2.97% compared to Vasta Platform's net margin of -3.90%. Universal Technical Institute's return on equity of 10.55% beat Vasta Platform's return on equity.
Summary
Universal Technical Institute beats Vasta Platform on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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