AFYA vs. ATGE, PRDO, LAUR, STRA, LRN, UTI, NRDY, VTRU, GHC, and LOPE
Should you be buying Afya stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Afya include Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Laureate Education (LAUR), Strategic Education (STRA), Stride (LRN), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), Graham (GHC), and Grand Canyon Education (LOPE). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) and Adtalem Global Education (NYSE:ATGE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Afya has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adtalem Global Education has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Adtalem Global Education has higher revenue and earnings than Afya. Adtalem Global Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Afya has a net margin of 13.54% compared to Adtalem Global Education's net margin of 7.93%. Afya's return on equity of 15.88% beat Adtalem Global Education's return on equity.
88.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Adtalem Global Education shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Adtalem Global Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Adtalem Global Education received 331 more outperform votes than Afya when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.12% of users gave Adtalem Global Education an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Adtalem Global Education had 13 more articles in the media than Afya. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Adtalem Global Education and 6 mentions for Afya. Adtalem Global Education's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Afya's score of 0.17 indicating that Adtalem Global Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Afya currently has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.28%. Adtalem Global Education has a consensus target price of $56.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.93%. Given Afya's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Afya is more favorable than Adtalem Global Education.
Summary
Adtalem Global Education beats Afya on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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