Educational Development (EDUC) Competitors

$1.90
-0.14 (-6.86%)
(As of 05/3/2024 08:52 PM ET)

EDUC vs. SANW, DALN, WVVI, NCRA, SEED, LOCL, SDOT, BRFH, VWE, and PETZ

Should you be buying Educational Development stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Educational Development include S&W Seed (SANW), DallasNews (DALN), Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVVI), Nocera (NCRA), Origin Agritech (SEED), Local Bounti (LOCL), Sadot Group (SDOT), Barfresh Food Group (BRFH), Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), and TDH (PETZ). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.

Educational Development vs.

Educational Development (NASDAQ:EDUC) and S&W Seed (NASDAQ:SANW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.

Educational Development has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&W Seed has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

S&W Seed has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Educational Development. S&W Seed is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Educational Development, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Educational Development$87.83M0.19-$2.51M$0.0295.05
S&W Seed$73.52M0.24$14.41M$0.281.46

In the previous week, Educational Development had 79 more articles in the media than S&W Seed. MarketBeat recorded 82 mentions for Educational Development and 3 mentions for S&W Seed. S&W Seed's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat Educational Development's score of -0.01 indicating that S&W Seed is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Educational Development
4 Very Positive mention(s)
16 Positive mention(s)
34 Neutral mention(s)
15 Negative mention(s)
13 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
S&W Seed
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

S&W Seed has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 631.71%. Given S&W Seed's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe S&W Seed is more favorable than Educational Development.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Educational Development
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
S&W Seed
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

S&W Seed has a net margin of 18.36% compared to Educational Development's net margin of 0.42%. Educational Development's return on equity of 0.53% beat S&W Seed's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Educational Development0.42% 0.53% 0.25%
S&W Seed 18.36%-28.69%-12.57%

S&W Seed received 147 more outperform votes than Educational Development when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.40% of users gave Educational Development an outperform vote while only 61.38% of users gave S&W Seed an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Educational DevelopmentOutperform Votes
201
80.40%
Underperform Votes
49
19.60%
S&W SeedOutperform Votes
348
61.38%
Underperform Votes
219
38.62%

19.6% of Educational Development shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of S&W Seed shares are held by institutional investors. 26.2% of Educational Development shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of S&W Seed shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Educational Development and S&W Seed tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EDUC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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.
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EDUC vs. The Competition

MetricEducational Developmentnondurable goods IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$16.29M$1.11B$14.45B$7.72B
Dividend YieldN/A6.54%2.82%3.96%
P/E Ratio95.0554.4020.4219.09
Price / Sales0.190.705.2488.31
Price / CashN/A33.7735.1736.12
Price / Book0.371.254.934.36
Net Income-$2.51M$66.28M$579.97M$214.85M
7 Day Performance-12.84%-6.95%3.60%2.26%
1 Month Performance-27.48%-13.70%2.58%-2.35%
1 Year Performance-1.04%20.97%1.14%9.00%

Educational Development Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SANW
S&W Seed
2.475 of 5 stars
$0.42
flat
$3.00
+622.5%
-69.9%$17.98M$73.52M1.48134Upcoming Earnings
DALN
DallasNews
0.2985 of 5 stars
$3.63
+1.7%
N/A-17.6%$19.42M$139.70M-2.75601Negative News
WVVI
Willamette Valley Vineyards
0 of 5 stars
$4.19
+2.2%
N/A-29.3%$20.78M$39.14M-6.45223Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Report
News Coverage
NCRA
Nocera
0 of 5 stars
$1.24
flat
N/A-5.7%$16.07M$23.92M-2.7619News Coverage
SEED
Origin Agritech
0 of 5 stars
$3.31
+4.7%
N/A-45.5%$20.99M$13M0.0063Gap Up
LOCL
Local Bounti
1.1622 of 5 stars
$2.65
-14.2%
$9.00
+239.6%
-56.6%$22.37M$27.56M-0.17301Upcoming Earnings
SDOT
Sadot Group
0 of 5 stars
$0.27
flat
N/AN/A$14.01M$726.69M-1.29N/AUpcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Up
BRFH
Barfresh Food Group
0 of 5 stars
$1.60
+1.9%
N/A+47.1%$23.22M$8.13M-7.2710Gap Down
VWE
Vintage Wine Estates
2.3872 of 5 stars
$0.20
flat
$1.10
+439.2%
-75.9%$12.80M$283.23M-0.10568Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PETZ
TDH
0 of 5 stars
$1.12
-3.5%
N/A-15.0%$11.53M$3.10M0.0051News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:EDUC) was last updated on 5/6/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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