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$105.21 -0.87 (-0.82%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:31 PM ET)

LRN vs. BFAM, LOPE, ATGE, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, EDU, TAL, and GHC

Should you be buying Stride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stride include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), and Graham (GHC).

Stride vs.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Stride (NYSE:LRN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

98.2% of Stride shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Stride shares are held by 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 currently has a consensus target price of $140.75, indicating a potential upside of 30.01%. Stride has a consensus target price of $97.50, indicating a potential downside of 7.33%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than Stride.

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
Stride
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71

Stride has a net margin of 11.38% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 4.44%. Stride's return on equity of 21.23% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bright Horizons Family Solutions4.44% 13.23% 4.39%
Stride 11.38%21.23%12.70%

In the previous week, Stride had 3 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Stride and 4 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Stride's score of 1.00 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Stride
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Stride has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Stride 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
Stride$2.11B2.17$204.18M$5.5019.13

Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 30 more outperform votes than Stride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.24% of users gave Stride 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%
StrideOutperform Votes
385
69.24%
Underperform Votes
171
30.76%

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, Stride has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Stride beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LRN vs. The Competition

MetricStrideEducational services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.59B$914.60M$8.39B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A6.33%2.80%3.58%
P/E Ratio19.1311.9118.3341.22
Price / Sales2.171.0415.5417.58
Price / Cash14.5621.1033.4521.28
Price / Book3.871.715.565.32
Net Income$204.18M$20.67M$267.23M$989.67M
7 Day Performance-0.95%-4.33%-2.09%-3.45%
1 Month Performance1.80%-1.90%-0.16%-3.73%
1 Year Performance77.81%-1.73%10.18%12.06%

Stride Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LRN
Stride
2.6954 of 5 stars
$105.21
-0.8%
$97.50
-7.3%
+76.7%$4.59B$2.11B19.137,800Positive News
BFAM
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
4.9603 of 5 stars
$108.39
-1.2%
$140.75
+29.9%
+18.3%$6.31B$2.63B55.0031,400Positive News
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.5493 of 5 stars
$167.97
+0.7%
$179.67
+7.0%
+14.2%$4.90B$1.02B21.925,800Insider Trade
Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.1847 of 5 stars
$90.37
+1.8%
$85.00
-5.9%
+46.9%$3.39B$1.63B20.559,938News Coverage
Positive News
STRA
Strategic Education
4.5582 of 5 stars
$101.00
+2.0%
$126.00
+24.8%
+1.1%$2.48B$1.13B18.863,774Positive News
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
4.2549 of 5 stars
$26.36
+2.3%
$25.33
-3.9%
+124.4%$1.42B$732.69M34.823,700Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
3.892 of 5 stars
$16.23
+1.4%
$18.00
+10.9%
+59.0%$510.92M$378.07M50.032,300
APEI
American Public Education
4.1104 of 5 stars
$23.16
+3.9%
$23.00
-0.7%
+142.9%$410.21M$613.25M39.806,037Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
EDU
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
3.9257 of 5 stars
$59.48
-2.5%
$99.67
+67.6%
-15.2%$10.09B$4.65B25.5475,005Positive News
Gap Down
TAL
TAL Education Group
2.289 of 5 stars
$9.81
-3.3%
$14.80
+50.9%
-19.7%$5.93B$1.84B92.2715,000Stock Split
GHC
Graham
2.8274 of 5 stars
$910.46
+1.1%
N/A+29.0%$3.95B$4.71B17.6419,900Positive News

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This page (NYSE:LRN) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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