VTRU vs. NRDY, LINC, APEI, UTI, QSG, YQ, IH, EEX, MPX, and CVEO
Should you be buying Vitru stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vitru include Nerdy (NRDY), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Emerald (EEX), Marine Products (MPX), and Civeo (CVEO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) and Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Vitru has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vitru has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Vitru's net margin of -14.49%. Nerdy's return on equity of 10.95% beat Vitru's return on equity.
Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vitru has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
39.1% of Nerdy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Vitru shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vitru shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nerdy presently has a consensus target price of $4.82, suggesting a potential upside of 136.34%. Given Vitru's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Vitru.
Nerdy received 14 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 58.49% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 4 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nerdy and 3 mentions for Vitru. Vitru's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Nerdy's score of 0.17 indicating that Nerdy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Vitru beats Nerdy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding VTRU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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