GHC vs. LOPE, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, PRDO, TAL, TNL, and YETI
Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), TAL Education Group (TAL), Travel + Leisure (TNL), and YETI (YETI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and Graham (NYSE:GHC) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Graham shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Grand Canyon Education received 360 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 62.44% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.33% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of 6.12%. Graham's return on equity of 31.75% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education and Grand Canyon Education both had 7 articles in the media. Graham's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 0.37 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grand Canyon Education currently has a consensus price target of $150.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.20%. Given Graham's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Graham.
Graham has higher revenue and earnings than Grand Canyon Education. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Graham on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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