NRDY vs. VTRU, LINC, UTI, APEI, QSG, PRDO, AFYA, RICK, MPX, and BALY
Should you be buying Nerdy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nerdy include Vitru (VTRU), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), American Public Education (APEI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Marine Products (MPX), and Bally's (BALY). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) and Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Nerdy presently has a consensus price target of $4.82, indicating a potential upside of 126.36%. Given Nerdy's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Vitru.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 14 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Nerdy and 6 mentions for Vitru. Vitru's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Nerdy's score of 0.32 indicating that Vitru is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nerdy received 13 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 57.69% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
39.1% of Nerdy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Vitru shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vitru shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vitru has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Nerdy's net margin of -14.49%. Vitru's return on equity of 10.95% beat Nerdy's return on equity.
Vitru has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vitru has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vitru beats Nerdy on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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