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Bridgepoint Education (BPI) Competitors

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BPI vs. BFAM, LOPE, LRN, ATGE, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, RENO, and BEDU

Should you be buying Bridgepoint Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bridgepoint Education include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Renovare Environmental (RENO), and Bright Scholar Education (BEDU).

Bridgepoint Education vs.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Bridgepoint Education (NYSE:BPI) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgepoint Education has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

81.1% of Bridgepoint Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.9% of Bridgepoint Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgepoint Education. Bridgepoint Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bright Horizons Family Solutions$2.63B2.40$74.22M$1.9954.40
Bridgepoint Education$443.37M0.00$4.64M$0.47N/A

In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 4 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Education. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Education. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Bridgepoint Education's score of 0.00 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Positive
Bridgepoint Education Neutral

Bright Horizons Family Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $140.75, indicating a potential upside of 30.01%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than Bridgepoint Education.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Bridgepoint Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a net margin of 4.44% compared to Bridgepoint Education's net margin of 2.32%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity of 13.23% beat Bridgepoint Education's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bright Horizons Family Solutions4.44% 13.23% 4.39%
Bridgepoint Education 2.32%12.26%6.06%

Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 96 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.02% of users gave Bridgepoint Education an outperform vote while only 57.64% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bright Horizons Family SolutionsOutperform Votes
415
57.64%
Underperform Votes
305
42.36%
Bridgepoint EducationOutperform Votes
319
67.02%
Underperform Votes
157
32.98%

Summary

Bright Horizons Family Solutions beats Bridgepoint Education on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BPI vs. The Competition

MetricBridgepoint EducationEducational Services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$8,000.00$914.98M$8.38B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A6.52%2.84%3.63%
P/E Ratio0.0011.9118.3341.24
Price / SalesN/A1.0415.5117.51
Price / Cash8.5721.1033.4521.28
Price / BookN/A1.715.565.32
Net Income$4.64M$20.67M$267.23M$989.88M

Bridgepoint Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BPI
Bridgepoint Education
N/AN/AN/AN/A$8,000.00$443.37M0.004,790
BFAM
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
4.9674 of 5 stars
$108.39
-1.2%
$140.75
+29.9%
+15.3%$6.31B$2.63B55.0031,400Positive News
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.57 of 5 stars
$168.18
+0.8%
$179.67
+6.8%
+13.4%$4.90B$1.02B21.925,800Insider Trade
Positive News
LRN
Stride
2.6876 of 5 stars
$108.43
+2.1%
$97.50
-10.1%
+77.8%$4.73B$2.11B19.317,800Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.2052 of 5 stars
$91.14
+2.7%
$85.00
-6.7%
+47.2%$3.42B$1.63B20.559,938News Coverage
Positive News
STRA
Strategic Education
4.5641 of 5 stars
$101.62
+2.6%
$126.00
+24.0%
+0.6%$2.50B$1.13B18.863,774Positive News
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
4.2504 of 5 stars
$26.44
+2.6%
$25.33
-4.2%
+118.0%$1.43B$732.69M34.823,700Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
4.118 of 5 stars
$16.39
+2.4%
$18.00
+9.8%
+54.5%$515.96M$378.07M50.032,300
APEI
American Public Education
4.1382 of 5 stars
$23.19
+4.0%
$23.00
-0.8%
+133.5%$410.74M$613.25M39.806,037Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
RENO
Renovare Environmental
N/A$0.00
flat
N/AN/A$3,000.00$12.35M0.0040
BEDU
Bright Scholar Education
0.2997 of 5 stars
$2.01
+2.0%
N/A+48.0%$0.00$247.56M-0.413,946Negative News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume

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