DAO vs. AFYA, PRDO, UDMY, GOTU, UTI, NRDY, LINC, VTRU, APEI, and CHGG
Should you be buying Youdao stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Youdao include Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Udemy (UDMY), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), and Chegg (CHGG). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Youdao (NYSE:DAO) and Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Afya had 5 more articles in the media than Youdao. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Afya and 0 mentions for Youdao. Afya's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Youdao's score of 0.00 indicating that Afya is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Youdao has a beta of -0.05, meaning that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Afya has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Afya has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Youdao. Youdao is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
21.9% of Youdao shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. 43.0% of Youdao shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Afya has a net margin of 16.20% compared to Youdao's net margin of -5.87%. Afya's return on equity of 17.51% beat Youdao's return on equity.
Youdao currently has a consensus target price of $4.60, suggesting a potential upside of 25.34%. Afya has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.02%. Given Afya's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Afya is more favorable than Youdao.
Afya received 20 more outperform votes than Youdao when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.97% of users gave Youdao an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
Summary
Afya beats Youdao on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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