UTI vs. LINC, APEI, NRDY, VTRU, QSG, PRDO, AFYA, XPOF, AMCX, and RSVR
Should you be buying Universal Technical Institute stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Technical Institute include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Xponential Fitness (XPOF), AMC Networks (AMCX), and Reservoir Media (RSVR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) and Universal Technical Institute (NYSE:UTI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of 2.97%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 10.55% beat Universal Technical Institute's return on equity.
72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.7% of Universal Technical Institute shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.6% of Universal Technical Institute shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lincoln Educational Services currently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 18.12%. Universal Technical Institute has a consensus target price of $15.80, indicating a potential upside of 4.57%. Given Universal Technical Institute's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than Universal Technical Institute.
In the previous week, Universal Technical Institute had 13 more articles in the media than Lincoln Educational Services. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Universal Technical Institute and 26 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services. Lincoln Educational Services' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Universal Technical Institute's score of 0.42 indicating that Universal Technical Institute is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Universal Technical Institute. Lincoln Educational Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Technical Institute, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Universal Technical Institute has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lincoln Educational Services received 25 more outperform votes than Universal Technical Institute when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 58.08% of users gave Universal Technical Institute an outperform vote.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Universal Technical Institute on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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