UTI vs. LINC, APEI, ATGE, NRDY, VTRU, QSG, PRDO, AFYA, BALY, and GTN
Should you be buying Universal Technical Institute stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Universal Technical Institute include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Bally's (BALY), and Gray Television (GTN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Universal Technical Institute (NYSE:UTI) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) 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 analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
Lincoln Educational Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Universal Technical Institute. Lincoln Educational Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Technical Institute, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Technical Institute presently has a consensus price target of $15.40, suggesting a potential upside of 0.79%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus price target of $12.13, suggesting a potential upside of 12.79%. Given Lincoln Educational Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than Universal Technical Institute.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 10 more articles in the media than Universal Technical Institute. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 6 mentions for Universal Technical Institute. Universal Technical Institute's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of -0.07 indicating that Universal Technical Institute is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.88% compared to Universal Technical Institute's net margin of 2.41%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 9.63% beat Universal Technical Institute's return on equity.
75.7% of Universal Technical Institute shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.6% of Universal Technical Institute shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lincoln Educational Services received 24 more outperform votes than Universal Technical Institute when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.08% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 57.88% of users gave Universal Technical Institute an outperform vote.
Universal Technical Institute has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Universal Technical Institute on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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