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Stride (LRN) Competitors

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$102.80 +1.14 (+1.12%)
(As of 11/20/2024 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). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.

Stride vs.

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

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
Stride11.38% 21.23% 12.70%
Bright Horizons Family Solutions 4.44%13.23%4.39%

In the previous week, Stride had 1 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Stride and 9 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Stride's score of 0.89 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Stride has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Stride$2.11B2.12$204.18M$5.5018.69
Bright Horizons Family Solutions$2.42B2.61$74.22M$1.9954.45

Stride currently has a consensus price target of $90.17, suggesting a potential downside of 12.29%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus price target of $141.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.59%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than Stride.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Stride
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.38

Stride has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 28 more outperform votes than Stride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.37% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 57.60% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
StrideOutperform Votes
385
69.37%
Underperform Votes
170
30.63%
Bright Horizons Family SolutionsOutperform Votes
413
57.60%
Underperform Votes
304
42.40%

98.2% of Stride shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Stride shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Stride beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 11 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$4.48B$925.80M$8.22B$19.88B
Dividend YieldN/A6.51%2.75%3.52%
P/E Ratio18.6911.4418.9942.95
Price / Sales2.121.277.5819.18
Price / Cash13.7621.3415.4717.86
Price / Book3.781.715.475.52
Net Income$204.18M$21.95M$265.65M$986.45M
7 Day Performance3.16%0.77%-1.45%0.45%
1 Month Performance59.11%0.09%-1.94%1.05%
1 Year Performance76.94%8.73%15.42%24.67%

Stride Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LRN
Stride
3.1789 of 5 stars
$102.80
+1.1%
$90.17
-12.3%
+77.6%$4.48B$2.11B18.697,800
BFAM
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
4.8633 of 5 stars
$108.36
-0.6%
$141.50
+30.6%
+22.4%$6.30B$2.42B54.4531,400Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.6615 of 5 stars
$161.40
+0.2%
$179.67
+11.3%
+19.4%$4.70B$960.90M21.175,800Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.4484 of 5 stars
$87.29
-0.5%
$85.00
-2.6%
+56.5%$3.27B$1.58B19.979,938Short Interest ↓
STRA
Strategic Education
4.4923 of 5 stars
$95.52
+0.7%
$126.00
+31.9%
+7.0%$2.33B$1.13B18.193,774Dividend Announcement
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
3.9089 of 5 stars
$19.89
-0.3%
$22.20
+11.6%
+77.3%$1.07B$607.41M39.783,000News Coverage
High Trading Volume
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
3.7642 of 5 stars
$15.38
+1.5%
$18.00
+17.0%
+63.3%$484.16M$378.07M48.062,300Insider Trade
APEI
American Public Education
4.7319 of 5 stars
$19.12
-0.2%
$23.00
+20.3%
+241.4%$338.65M$610.97M34.146,037Analyst Revision
EDU
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
3.6868 of 5 stars
$56.72
+2.3%
$99.67
+75.7%
-20.6%$9.63B$4.65B24.2475,005Positive News
TAL
TAL Education Group
2.4169 of 5 stars
$10.13
+2.2%
$14.80
+46.1%
+2.7%$5.99B$1.49B92.0915,000Stock Split
GHC
Graham
2.6447 of 5 stars
$906.69
-1.3%
N/A+45.2%$3.98B$4.41B17.7519,900

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This page (NYSE:LRN) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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