TAL vs. EDU, LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, GOTU, and PRDO
Should you be buying TAL Education Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TAL Education Group include New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), and Perdoceo Education (PRDO). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) and TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group received 75 more outperform votes than TAL Education Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.41% of users gave New Oriental Education & Technology Group an outperform vote while only 61.92% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group presently has a consensus target price of $97.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.01%. TAL Education Group has a consensus target price of $12.37, suggesting a potential upside of 5.47%. Given TAL Education Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe New Oriental Education & Technology Group is more favorable than TAL Education Group.
37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, New Oriental Education & Technology Group had 3 more articles in the media than TAL Education Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group and 3 mentions for TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's score of 0.07 indicating that New Oriental Education & Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a net margin of 7.72% compared to New Oriental Education & Technology Group's net margin of -0.24%. TAL Education Group's return on equity of 8.11% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Oriental Education & Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
New Oriental Education & Technology Group beats TAL Education Group on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get TAL Education Group News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for TAL and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TAL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
TAL Education Group Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
