STRA vs. LRN, ATGE, GSX, LOPE, LAUR, GHC, AFYA, PRDO, CHGG, and DAO
Should you be buying Strategic Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Education include Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), GSX Techedu (GSX), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Graham (GHC), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Chegg (CHGG), and Youdao (DAO).
Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) and Stride (NYSE:LRN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.
Strategic Education presently has a consensus target price of $131.75, indicating a potential upside of 8.83%. Stride has a consensus target price of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.33%. Given Strategic Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Stride.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Strategic Education's net margin of 8.70%. Stride's return on equity of 18.29% beat Strategic Education's return on equity.
In the previous week, Stride had 17 more articles in the media than Strategic Education. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Stride and 25 mentions for Strategic Education. Stride's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Strategic Education's score of 0.71 indicating that Stride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stride has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.3% of Strategic Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Stride shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Stride 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.
Strategic Education has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stride has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stride received 2 more outperform votes than Strategic Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 55.47% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Summary
Stride beats Strategic Education on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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