AFYA vs. AIRC, LAUR, DRVN, UDMY, SDA, IRS, ALLG, DAO, CHGG, and VSTA
Should you be buying Afya stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Afya include Apartment Income REIT (AIRC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Udemy (UDMY), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Allego (ALLG), Youdao (DAO), Chegg (CHGG), and Vasta Platform (VSTA). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) and Apartment Income REIT (NYSE:AIRC) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Afya has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apartment Income REIT has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Afya currently has a consensus price target of $21.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.04%. Apartment Income REIT has a consensus price target of $36.59, suggesting a potential downside of 6.38%. Given Afya's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Afya is more favorable than Apartment Income REIT.
Apartment Income REIT has a net margin of 79.54% compared to Afya's net margin of 16.20%. Apartment Income REIT's return on equity of 25.86% beat Afya's return on equity.
In the previous week, Afya had 2 more articles in the media than Apartment Income REIT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Afya and 1 mentions for Apartment Income REIT. Afya's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Apartment Income REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that Afya is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.0% of Afya shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Afya shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Apartment Income REIT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Afya received 43 more outperform votes than Apartment Income REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.46% of users gave Afya an outperform vote while only 32.39% of users gave Apartment Income REIT an outperform vote.
Apartment Income REIT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Afya. Apartment Income REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Apartment Income REIT beats Afya on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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