VTRU vs. UTI, DAO, CHGG, LINC, APEI, NRDY, VSTA, QSG, YQ, and IH
Should you be buying Vitru stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vitru include Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Youdao (DAO), Chegg (CHGG), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Nerdy (NRDY), Vasta Platform (VSTA), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), and iHuman (IH). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Universal Technical Institute (NYSE:UTI) and Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Universal Technical Institute had 15 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Universal Technical Institute and 0 mentions for Vitru. Universal Technical Institute's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Vitru's score of -0.10 indicating that Vitru is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vitru has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Universal Technical Institute. Vitru is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Technical Institute, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Technical Institute currently has a consensus price target of $17.40, indicating a potential upside of 20.75%. Given Vitru's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Universal Technical Institute is more favorable than Vitru.
Vitru has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Vitru's net margin of 2.97%. Universal Technical Institute's return on equity of 10.95% beat Vitru's return on equity.
75.7% of Universal Technical Institute shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Vitru shares are held by institutional investors. 27.6% of Universal Technical Institute shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vitru shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Universal Technical Institute has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vitru has a beta of -0.08, meaning that its share price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal Technical Institute received 234 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 58.24% of users gave Universal Technical Institute an outperform vote.
Summary
Universal Technical Institute beats Vitru on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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