GSX Techedu (GSX) Competitors

GSX Techedu (NYSE:GSX) and Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GSX or LAUR?

Laureate Education received 236 more outperform votes than GSX Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.63% of users gave GSX Techedu an outperform vote while only 57.77% of users gave Laureate Education an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GSX Techedu	Outperform Votes 65 59.63%	Underperform Votes 44 40.37%
Laureate Education	Outperform Votes 301 57.77%	Underperform Votes 220 42.23%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of GSX or LAUR?

34.8% of GSX Techedu shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of Laureate Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of GSX Techedu shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Laureate Education shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer GSX or LAUR?

Laureate Education has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.64%. Given Laureate Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Laureate Education is more favorable than GSX Techedu.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GSX Techedu	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Laureate Education	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has higher valuation and earnings, GSX or LAUR?

Laureate Education has higher revenue and earnings than GSX Techedu. Laureate Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GSX Techedu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GSX Techedu	$303.78M	2.81	$32.56M	$0.13	27.54
Laureate Education	$1.57B	1.82	$107.59M	$1.94	9.76

Which has more volatility & risk, GSX or LAUR?

GSX Techedu has a beta of -0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 150% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Laureate Education has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is GSX or LAUR more profitable?

Laureate Education has a net margin of 18.92% compared to GSX Techedu's net margin of -10.56%. Laureate Education's return on equity of 32.35% beat GSX Techedu's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GSX Techedu	-10.56%	-45.36%	-14.85%
Laureate Education	18.92%	32.35%	14.39%

Does the media refer more to GSX or LAUR?

In the previous week, Laureate Education had 5 more articles in the media than GSX Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Laureate Education and 0 mentions for GSX Techedu. Laureate Education's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat GSX Techedu's score of 0.00 indicating that Laureate Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
GSX Techedu	Neutral
Laureate Education	Positive

Summary

Laureate Education beats GSX Techedu on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.