LRN vs. BFAM, LOPE, STRA, ATGE, UTI, LINC, APEI, TAL, GHC, and LAUR
Should you be buying Stride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stride include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), and Laureate Education (LAUR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 7 more articles in the media than Stride. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 4 mentions for Stride. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Stride's score of 0.83 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stride currently has a consensus target price of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.66%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus target price of $107.43, indicating a potential upside of 0.43%. Given Stride's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Stride is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 3.34%. Stride's return on equity of 18.29% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 35 more outperform votes than Stride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Stride shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Stride has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Stride has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Stride beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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