TAL vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, EDU, ATGE, CROX, DLB, and BIRK
Should you be buying TAL Education Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TAL Education Group include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Crocs (CROX), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), and Birkenstock (BIRK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.12, meaning that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to TAL Education Group's net margin of -0.24%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.81% beat TAL Education Group's return on equity.
TAL Education Group received 26 more outperform votes than Grand Canyon Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.94% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 61.92% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
TAL Education Group presently has a consensus target price of $12.37, suggesting a potential downside of 4.36%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $163.33, suggesting a potential upside of 12.74%. Given Grand Canyon Education's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than TAL Education Group.
Grand Canyon Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education had 15 more articles in the media than TAL Education Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Grand Canyon Education and 4 mentions for TAL Education Group. Grand Canyon Education's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat TAL Education Group's score of 0.67 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats TAL Education Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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