SCI vs. EDU, TAL, GHC, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, PRDO, AFYA, UDMY, and EVGO
Should you be buying Service Co. International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Service Co. International include New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Udemy (UDMY), and EVgo (EVGO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Service Co. International vs.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) and Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
85.5% of Service Co. International shares are held by institutional investors. 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Service Co. International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Service Co. International has a net margin of 12.19% compared to New Oriental Education & Technology Group's net margin of 8.38%. Service Co. International's return on equity of 31.84% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group presently has a consensus price target of $99.67, suggesting a potential upside of 63.77%. Service Co. International has a consensus price target of $88.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.05%. Given New Oriental Education & Technology Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe New Oriental Education & Technology Group is more favorable than Service Co. International.
In the previous week, New Oriental Education & Technology Group had 1 more articles in the media than Service Co. International. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group and 3 mentions for Service Co. International. Service Co. International's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's score of 0.14 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Service Co. International has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group received 261 more outperform votes than Service Co. International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.87% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 66.26% of users gave New Oriental Education & Technology Group an outperform vote.
Service Co. International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Service Co. International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Oriental Education & Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Service Co. International beats New Oriental Education & Technology Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SCI) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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