STG vs. LINC, APEI, VTRU, VSTA, NRDY, QSG, VEDU, IH, YQ, and KUKE
Should you be buying Sunlands Technology Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sunlands Technology Group include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Vitru (VTRU), Vasta Platform (VSTA), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Visionary Education Technology Holdings Group (VEDU), iHuman (IH), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), and Kuke Music (KUKE). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) and Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE:STG) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Lincoln Educational Services presently has a consensus price target of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 39.97%. Given Sunlands Technology Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than Sunlands Technology Group.
Sunlands Technology Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lincoln Educational Services. Sunlands Technology Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunlands Technology Group has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunlands Technology Group has a net margin of 27.11% compared to Sunlands Technology Group's net margin of 6.57%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 284.13% beat Sunlands Technology Group's return on equity.
Lincoln Educational Services received 162 more outperform votes than Sunlands Technology Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 62.71% of users gave Sunlands Technology Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 4 more articles in the media than Sunlands Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 1 mentions for Sunlands Technology Group. Sunlands Technology Group's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of Sunlands Technology Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.7% of Sunlands Technology Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Sunlands Technology Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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