NRDY vs. LINC, VTRU, APEI, UTI, QSG, YQ, IH, MPX, MCS, and EEX
Should you be buying Nerdy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nerdy include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Marine Products (MPX), Marcus (MCS), and Emerald (EEX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 1 more articles in the media than Lincoln Educational Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Nerdy and 6 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services. Lincoln Educational Services' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Nerdy's score of 0.38 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
39.1% of Nerdy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lincoln Educational Services received 242 more outperform votes than Nerdy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 58.49% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Nerdy's net margin of -14.49%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 9.79% beat Nerdy's return on equity.
Nerdy currently has a consensus price target of $4.82, indicating a potential upside of 136.34%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus price target of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 22.13%. Given Nerdy's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Lincoln Educational Services.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Nerdy on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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