IH vs. CHGG, LINC, APEI, VTRU, VSTA, NRDY, QSG, VEDU, YQ, and STG
Should you be buying iHuman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of iHuman include Chegg (CHGG), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Vitru (VTRU), Vasta Platform (VSTA), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Visionary Education Technology Holdings Group (VEDU), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), and Sunlands Technology Group (STG). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Chegg (NYSE:CHGG) and iHuman (NYSE:IH) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Chegg presently has a consensus price target of $7.31, suggesting a potential upside of 97.64%. Given iHuman's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chegg is more favorable than iHuman.
Chegg has a beta of 1.37, suggesting that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iHuman has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
95.2% of Chegg shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.9% of iHuman shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of Chegg shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.6% of iHuman shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chegg received 794 more outperform votes than iHuman when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Chegg an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave iHuman an outperform vote.
iHuman has a net margin of 17.78% compared to iHuman's net margin of 2.07%. Chegg's return on equity of 20.27% beat iHuman's return on equity.
In the previous week, Chegg had 4 more articles in the media than iHuman. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Chegg and 0 mentions for iHuman. iHuman's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Chegg's score of 0.00 indicating that Chegg is being referred to more favorably in the media.
iHuman has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chegg. Chegg is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iHuman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chegg and iHuman tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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