UDMY vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, PRDO, GOTU, and UTI
Should you be buying Udemy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Udemy include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), and Universal Technical Institute (UTI). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and Udemy (NASDAQ:UDMY) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Grand Canyon Education presently has a consensus price target of $165.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.45%. Udemy has a consensus price target of $13.90, indicating a potential upside of 63.53%. Given Grand Canyon Education's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Udemy is more favorable than Grand Canyon Education.
Grand Canyon Education has higher revenue and earnings than Udemy. Udemy 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, Udemy had 2 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Udemy and 2 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. Udemy's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of -0.06 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 stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Udemy has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its stock price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education received 460 more outperform votes than Udemy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 48.68% of users gave Udemy an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of -10.82%. Udemy's return on equity of 31.81% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.5% of Udemy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Udemy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Udemy on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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