AFYA vs. PRDO, ATGE, LAUR, UTI, NRDY, STRA, LRN, GHC, LOPE, and BOWL
Should you be buying Afya stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Afya include Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), Strategic Education (STRA), Stride (LRN), Graham (GHC), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), and Bowlero (BOWL). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Afya shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Perdoceo Education had 4 more articles in the media than Afya. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Perdoceo Education and 8 mentions for Afya. Afya's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Perdoceo Education's score of 0.44 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Afya has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Perdoceo Education presently has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.22%. Afya has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.89%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Afya is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Perdoceo Education's net margin of 13.54%. Afya's return on equity of 17.09% beat Perdoceo Education's return on equity.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than Afya. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Afya received 22 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Afya on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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