NRDY vs. LINC, VTRU, APEI, UTI, QSG, YQ, IH, SNBR, MCS, and MCFT
Should you be buying Nerdy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nerdy include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Sleep Number (SNBR), Marcus (MCS), and MasterCraft Boat (MCFT). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) 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 dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Nerdy's net margin of -14.49%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 9.79% beat Nerdy's return on equity.
Nerdy presently has a consensus target price of $4.82, indicating a potential upside of 174.73%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 21.10%. Given Nerdy's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Lincoln Educational Services.
39.1% of Nerdy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 2 more articles in the media than Nerdy. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 2 mentions for Nerdy. Nerdy's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of 0.57 indicating that Nerdy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lincoln Educational Services received 242 more outperform votes than Nerdy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 58.49% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Nerdy on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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