PRDO vs. AFYA, UTI, ATGE, NRDY, VTRU, LINC, APEI, LAUR, BEDU, and REDU
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Afya (AFYA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Laureate Education (LAUR), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), and RISE Education Cayman (REDU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
88.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are held 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.
Afya has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 news media.
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 presently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.89%. Perdoceo Education has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.22%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Afya is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
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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