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Bridgepoint Education (BPI) Competitors

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

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), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), and Renovare Environmental (RENO).

Bridgepoint Education vs.

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

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 94 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.02% of users gave Bridgepoint Education an outperform vote while only 57.60% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bright Horizons Family SolutionsOutperform Votes
413
57.60%
Underperform Votes
304
42.40%
Bridgepoint EducationOutperform Votes
319
67.02%
Underperform Votes
157
32.98%

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

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgepoint Education has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $141.50, suggesting a potential upside of 27.59%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly 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)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.38
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 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$2.42B2.67$74.22M$1.9955.73
Bridgepoint Education$443.37M0.00$4.64M$0.47N/A

In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 10 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Education. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Education. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.52 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 Very Positive
Bridgepoint Education Neutral

Summary

Bright Horizons Family Solutions beats Bridgepoint Education on 12 of the 17 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$936.68M$8.40B$20.16B
Dividend YieldN/A6.50%2.77%3.49%
P/E Ratio0.0010.1415.5537.74
Price / SalesN/A1.417.8218.58
Price / Cash8.5721.3433.2221.28
Price / BookN/A1.743.674.65
Net Income$4.64M$21.95M$265.65M$985.06M

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
4.8718 of 5 stars
$110.90
+2.3%
$141.50
+27.6%
+22.4%$6.45B$2.42B54.4531,400Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.6801 of 5 stars
$162.07
+0.4%
$179.67
+10.9%
+19.4%$4.72B$960.90M21.215,800Positive News
LRN
Stride
3.052 of 5 stars
$103.10
+0.3%
$90.17
-12.5%
+77.6%$4.49B$2.04B18.697,800Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.4626 of 5 stars
$88.45
+1.3%
$85.00
-3.9%
+56.5%$3.32B$1.58B19.979,938Short Interest ↓
STRA
Strategic Education
4.4329 of 5 stars
$96.29
+0.8%
$126.00
+30.9%
+7.0%$2.37B$1.13B18.193,774Dividend Announcement
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
3.6301 of 5 stars
$23.67
+19.0%
$24.00
+1.4%
+77.3%$1.27B$607.41M47.443,000Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
3.7505 of 5 stars
$15.61
+1.5%
$18.00
+15.3%
+63.3%$491.40M$378.07M48.062,300Insider Trade
APEI
American Public Education
4.7465 of 5 stars
$19.58
+2.4%
$23.00
+17.5%
+241.4%$346.76M$600.54M34.146,037Analyst Revision
BEDU
Bright Scholar Education
1.3557 of 5 stars
$1.86
-2.6%
N/A+75.5%$0.00$292.60M0.003,946Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
RENO
Renovare Environmental
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%$0.00$12.35M0.0040Gap Up

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