LAUR vs. ATGE, STRA, LRN, AFYA, GHC, PRDO, LOPE, TAL, MCW, and CRI
Should you be buying Laureate Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Laureate Education include Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Stride (LRN), Afya (AFYA), Graham (GHC), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), TAL Education Group (TAL), Mister Car Wash (MCW), and Carter's (CRI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Adtalem Global Education (NYSE:ATGE) and Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.
Adtalem Global Education presently has a consensus target price of $63.33, indicating a potential downside of 2.41%. Laureate Education has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.18%. Given Adtalem Global Education's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Laureate Education is more favorable than Adtalem Global Education.
Adtalem Global Education has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Laureate Education has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
98.8% of Adtalem Global Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of Laureate Education shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Adtalem Global Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Laureate Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Adtalem Global Education had 9 more articles in the media than Laureate Education. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Adtalem Global Education and 7 mentions for Laureate Education. Adtalem Global Education's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Laureate Education's score of 0.73 indicating that Laureate Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Laureate Education has higher revenue and earnings than Adtalem Global Education. Laureate Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adtalem Global Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Laureate Education has a net margin of 8.19% compared to Laureate Education's net margin of 7.12%. Laureate Education's return on equity of 14.06% beat Adtalem Global Education's return on equity.
Adtalem Global Education received 101 more outperform votes than Laureate Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.72% of users gave Laureate Education an outperform vote while only 57.31% of users gave Adtalem Global Education an outperform vote.
Summary
Adtalem Global Education beats Laureate Education on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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