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$16.62 -0.75 (-4.32%)
Closing price 08/7/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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$16.64 +0.02 (+0.09%)
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DRVN vs. EDU, TAL, GHC, LAUR, PRDO, MCW, HTZ, AFYA, IRS, and UDMY

Should you be buying Driven Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Driven Brands include New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Hertz Global (HTZ), Afya (AFYA), IRSA Inversiones Y Representaciones (IRS), and Udemy (UDMY). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.

Driven Brands vs. Its Competitors

Driven Brands (NASDAQ:DRVN) and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) are both mid-cap personal services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.

In the previous week, Driven Brands had 2 more articles in the media than New Oriental Education & Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Driven Brands and 13 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Driven Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's score of 0.56 indicating that Driven Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Driven Brands
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Driven Brands currently has a consensus target price of $21.60, indicating a potential upside of 29.96%. New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a consensus target price of $51.60, indicating a potential upside of 12.31%. Given Driven Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Driven Brands is more favorable than New Oriental Education & Technology Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Driven Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.13

77.1% of Driven Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Driven Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Driven Brands has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a net margin of 7.59% compared to Driven Brands' net margin of -12.32%. Driven Brands' return on equity of 21.21% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Driven Brands-12.32% 21.21% 2.88%
New Oriental Education & Technology Group 7.59%11.32%5.97%

New Oriental Education & Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than Driven Brands. Driven Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Oriental Education & Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Driven Brands$2.34B1.17-$292.50M-$1.70-9.78
New Oriental Education & Technology Group$4.90BN/A$371.72M$2.2520.42

Summary

Driven Brands beats New Oriental Education & Technology Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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DRVN vs. The Competition

MetricDriven BrandsRET/WHL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.85B$27.99B$26.90B$9.57B
Dividend YieldN/A2.42%174.24%4.18%
P/E Ratio-9.7820.1329.2025.14
Price / Sales1.172.102.6297.17
Price / Cash8.2316.1759.4658.58
Price / Book4.495.415.555.59
Net Income-$292.50M$754.61M$877.46M$265.48M
7 Day Performance-0.54%4.77%1.92%1.22%
1 Month Performance-5.62%0.94%-1.05%0.39%
1 Year Performance26.97%8.10%21.73%23.47%

Driven Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DRVN
Driven Brands
3.9345 of 5 stars
$16.62
-4.3%
$21.60
+30.0%
+28.4%$2.85B$2.34B-9.7810,700Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
High Trading Volume
EDU
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
2.9121 of 5 stars
$46.27
+3.6%
$52.00
+12.4%
-33.0%$7.58B$4.90B20.5675,005Analyst Downgrade
Gap Up
TAL
TAL Education Group
1.8807 of 5 stars
$10.98
+3.1%
$12.66
+15.4%
+31.6%$6.48B$2.25B64.5623,000Stock Split
GHC
Graham
3.7933 of 5 stars
$938.44
+2.0%
N/A+37.1%$4.01B$4.79B6.0221,446
LAUR
Laureate Education
3.9217 of 5 stars
$23.46
+2.4%
$24.00
+2.3%
+74.1%$3.41B$1.57B13.8031,800Positive News
PRDO
Perdoceo Education
4.7028 of 5 stars
$28.08
-5.5%
$40.00
+42.5%
+40.1%$1.95B$681.26M12.165,690Positive News
MCW
Mister Car Wash
3.6014 of 5 stars
$5.65
-1.1%
$8.09
+43.2%
-9.8%$1.84B$1.03B25.686,350Positive News
HTZ
Hertz Global
N/A$5.70
-4.8%
N/A+65.5%$1.76B$8.78B-0.5625,000News Coverage
Gap Up
AFYA
Afya
4.3262 of 5 stars
$14.26
+4.2%
$17.40
+22.0%
-11.7%$1.28B$612.78M10.809,717Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
IRS
IRSA Inversiones Y Representaciones
2.7643 of 5 stars
$15.15
+2.7%
$13.00
-14.2%
+76.5%$1.12B$658.73M9.601,401
UDMY
Udemy
3.1762 of 5 stars
$7.43
+2.2%
$10.00
+34.6%
+1.4%$1.09B$786.57M-35.381,246

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This page (NASDAQ:DRVN) was last updated on 8/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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