GSX vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, ATGE, LAUR, AFYA, PRDO, GOTU, and UDMY
Should you be buying GSX Techedu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GSX Techedu include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), and Udemy (UDMY).
Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and GSX Techedu (NYSE:GSX) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Grand Canyon Education has higher revenue and earnings than GSX Techedu. Grand Canyon Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GSX Techedu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grand Canyon Education presently has a consensus price target of $165.00, indicating a potential upside of 19.93%. Given GSX Techedu's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than GSX Techedu.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.8% of GSX Techedu shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of GSX Techedu shares are owned 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.
Grand Canyon Education received 432 more outperform votes than GSX Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 59.63% of users gave GSX Techedu an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of -10.56%. GSX Techedu's return on equity of 31.81% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education had 4 more articles in the media than GSX Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Grand Canyon Education and 0 mentions for GSX Techedu. GSX Techedu's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 0.00 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GSX Techedu has a beta of -0.5, indicating that its share price is 150% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats GSX Techedu on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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