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Bridgepoint Education (BPI) Competitors

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BPI vs. BFAM, LRN, LOPE, ATGE, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, AFYA, 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), Stride (LRN), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Afya (AFYA), and Renovare Environmental (RENO).

Bridgepoint Education vs.

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

81.1% of Bridgepoint Education shares are held by institutional investors. 31.9% of Bridgepoint Education shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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
Bridgepoint Education$443.37M0.00$4.64M$0.47N/A
Bright Horizons Family Solutions$2.42B2.87$74.22M$1.9959.90

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus price target of $138.25, suggesting a potential upside of 15.99%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, 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
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
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 5 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Education. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Education. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Bridgepoint Education's score of 0.00 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bridgepoint Education Neutral
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Positive

Bridgepoint Education has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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
Bridgepoint Education2.32% 12.26% 6.06%
Bright Horizons Family Solutions 4.44%13.23%4.39%

Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 97 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.02% of users gave Bridgepoint Education an outperform vote while only 57.46% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bridgepoint EducationOutperform Votes
319
67.02%
Underperform Votes
157
32.98%
Bright Horizons Family SolutionsOutperform Votes
416
57.46%
Underperform Votes
308
42.54%

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$914.64M$8.55B$19.89B
Dividend YieldN/A6.71%2.85%3.61%
P/E Ratio0.0010.9612.4537.12
Price / SalesN/A1.786.6917.72
Price / Cash8.5720.3715.1717.61
Price / BookN/A1.796.035.85
Net Income$4.64M$20.67M$274.28M$1.01B

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
4.8327 of 5 stars
$117.47
-0.2%
$138.25
+17.7%
+21.4%$6.83B$2.63B59.0331,400Analyst Downgrade
Positive News
LRN
Stride
3.0402 of 5 stars
$113.90
+0.8%
$102.50
-10.0%
+89.3%$4.96B$2.04B20.717,800Upcoming Earnings
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.41 of 5 stars
$169.99
-0.6%
$179.67
+5.7%
+37.4%$4.96B$960.90M22.345,800Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.1913 of 5 stars
$98.27
+1.0%
$91.67
-6.7%
+59.9%$3.68B$1.63B22.499,938
STRA
Strategic Education
4.3387 of 5 stars
$96.98
-0.2%
$126.00
+29.9%
+2.8%$2.38B$1.13B18.473,774Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
3.6367 of 5 stars
$26.57
+2.2%
$27.17
+2.2%
+88.8%$1.44B$732.69M35.913,700High Trading Volume
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
4.2455 of 5 stars
$15.88
+2.9%
$18.00
+13.4%
+75.9%$499.90M$378.07M49.632,300
APEI
American Public Education
4.2417 of 5 stars
$21.51
+0.3%
$23.00
+6.9%
+85.9%$380.94M$600.54M38.416,037
AFYA
Afya
3.2088 of 5 stars
$15.74
+0.6%
$19.60
+24.5%
-30.0%$0.00$576.09M12.699,680Short Interest ↑
RENO
Renovare Environmental
N/AN/AN/AN/A$0.00N/A0.0040

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