VSTA vs. UTI, DAO, CHGG, LINC, APEI, STG, QSG, YQ, IH, and KUKE
Should you be buying Vasta Platform stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vasta Platform include Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Youdao (DAO), Chegg (CHGG), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), and Kuke Music (KUKE). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Universal Technical Institute (NYSE:UTI) and Vasta Platform (NASDAQ:VSTA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Universal Technical Institute has a net margin of 2.97% compared to Universal Technical Institute's net margin of -3.90%. Vasta Platform's return on equity of 10.55% beat Universal Technical Institute's return on equity.
Universal Technical Institute has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vasta Platform has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal Technical Institute has higher revenue and earnings than Vasta Platform. Vasta Platform 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.
Universal Technical Institute received 238 more outperform votes than Vasta Platform when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.18% of users gave Universal Technical Institute an outperform vote while only 47.83% of users gave Vasta Platform an outperform vote.
Universal Technical Institute currently has a consensus target price of $15.80, indicating a potential downside of 3.36%. Vasta Platform has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 71.43%. Given Universal Technical Institute's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vasta Platform is more favorable than Universal Technical Institute.
75.7% of Universal Technical Institute shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Vasta Platform shares are held by institutional investors. 27.6% of Universal Technical Institute shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Vasta Platform shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Universal Technical Institute had 1 more articles in the media than Vasta Platform. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Universal Technical Institute and 5 mentions for Vasta Platform. Universal Technical Institute's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Vasta Platform's score of 0.65 indicating that Vasta Platform is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Universal Technical Institute beats Vasta Platform on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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