BEDU vs. IH, HCMA, QSG, COE, CHGG, STG, YQ, YSXT, AZI, and ZCMD
Should you be buying Bright Scholar Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Scholar Education include iHuman (IH), HCM Acquisition (HCMA), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 51Talk Online Education Group (COE), Chegg (CHGG), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), YSX Tech (YSXT), Autozi Internet Technology (Global) (AZI), and Zhongchao (ZCMD). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Bright Scholar Education vs.
iHuman (NYSE:IH) and Bright Scholar Education (NYSE:BEDU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment and profitability.
4.9% of iHuman shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.0% of Bright Scholar Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 63.6% of iHuman shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 84.8% of Bright Scholar Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bright Scholar Education received 210 more outperform votes than iHuman when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.63% of users gave Bright Scholar Education an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave iHuman an outperform vote.
iHuman has higher revenue and earnings than Bright Scholar Education. Bright Scholar Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHuman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
iHuman has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Scholar Education has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
iHuman has a net margin of 11.22% compared to Bright Scholar Education's net margin of -55.92%. iHuman's return on equity of 11.29% beat Bright Scholar Education's return on equity.
In the previous week, iHuman had 4 more articles in the media than Bright Scholar Education. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for iHuman and 2 mentions for Bright Scholar Education. Bright Scholar Education's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat iHuman's score of 0.43 indicating that Bright Scholar Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
iHuman beats Bright Scholar Education on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BEDU) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
