LAUR vs. STRA, LRN, ATGE, AFYA, GHC, PRDO, LOPE, TAL, MCW, and MBC
Should you be buying Laureate Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Laureate Education include Strategic Education (STRA), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Graham (GHC), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), TAL Education Group (TAL), Mister Car Wash (MCW), and MasterBrand (MBC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) and Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Laureate Education currently has a consensus target price of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.86%. Strategic Education has a consensus target price of $131.75, suggesting a potential upside of 8.83%. Given Laureate Education's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Laureate Education is more favorable than Strategic Education.
96.3% of Laureate Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Laureate Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Laureate Education has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Education has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Strategic Education received 71 more outperform votes than Laureate Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.72% of users gave Laureate Education an outperform vote while only 55.47% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Strategic Education has a net margin of 8.70% compared to Laureate Education's net margin of 7.26%. Laureate Education's return on equity of 12.69% beat Strategic Education's return on equity.
In the previous week, Strategic Education had 22 more articles in the media than Laureate Education. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Strategic Education and 6 mentions for Laureate Education. Laureate Education's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Strategic Education's score of 0.67 indicating that Laureate Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Laureate Education has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Laureate Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Laureate Education beats Strategic Education on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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