BEDU vs. HCMA, CHGG, QSG, COE, IH, STG, YQ, AZI, YSXT, and ZCMD
Should you be buying Bright Scholar Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Scholar Education include HCM Acquisition (HCMA), Chegg (CHGG), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 51Talk Online Education Group (COE), iHuman (IH), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), Autozi Internet Technology (Global) (AZI), YSX Tech (YSXT), and Zhongchao (ZCMD). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Bright Scholar Education vs.
Bright Scholar Education (NYSE:BEDU) and HCM Acquisition (NASDAQ:HCMA) 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 institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Bright Scholar Education had 1 more articles in the media than HCM Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Bright Scholar Education and 0 mentions for HCM Acquisition. Bright Scholar Education's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat HCM Acquisition's score of 0.00 indicating that Bright Scholar Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HCM Acquisition has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bright Scholar Education.
HCM Acquisition has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Bright Scholar Education's net margin of -55.92%. HCM Acquisition's return on equity of 0.00% beat Bright Scholar Education's return on equity.
26.1% of Bright Scholar Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.8% of HCM Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.8% of Bright Scholar Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 71.2% of HCM Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bright Scholar Education has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HCM Acquisition has a beta of -0.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bright Scholar Education received 211 more outperform votes than HCM Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Bright Scholar Education beats HCM Acquisition on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BEDU) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
