STRA vs. LRN, ATGE, GSX, LOPE, GHC, LAUR, AFYA, PRDO, CHGG, and DAO
Should you be buying Strategic Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Education include Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), GSX Techedu (GSX), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Chegg (CHGG), and Youdao (DAO).
Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Stride's net margin of 8.70%. Strategic Education's return on equity of 18.29% beat Stride's return on equity.
98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Stride shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Stride has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Education has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stride received 1 more outperform votes than Strategic Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 55.54% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Stride currently has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.55%. Strategic Education has a consensus price target of $133.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.10%. Given Stride's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Stride.
Stride has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Strategic Education had 1 more articles in the media than Stride. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Strategic Education and 7 mentions for Stride. Stride's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Strategic Education's score of 0.69 indicating that Strategic Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Stride beats Strategic Education on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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