PRDO vs. AFYA, ATGE, LAUR, UTI, APEI, STRA, BEDU, REDU, LRN, and GHC
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), American Public Education (APEI), Strategic Education (STRA), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), Stride (LRN), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Afya received 22 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Afya's net margin of 16.20%. Afya's return on equity of 17.51% beat Perdoceo Education's return on equity.
Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Afya has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Perdoceo Education and Perdoceo Education both had 4 articles in the media. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Afya's score of 0.35 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Afya shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Afya shares are owned 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.
Perdoceo Education currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.43%. Afya has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.66%. Given Afya's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Afya is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than Afya. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Afya on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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