DRVN vs. EDU, TAL, GHC, LAUR, PRDO, MCW, HTZ, AFYA, EVGO, and IRS
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), EVgo (EVGO), and IRSA Inversiones Y Representaciones (IRS). 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 stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Driven Brands currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.31%. New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a consensus target price of $52.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.33%. Given Driven Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Driven Brands is more favorable than New Oriental Education & Technology Group.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 12 more articles in the media than New Oriental Education & Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Driven Brands and 1 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group. New Oriental Education & Technology Group's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Driven Brands' score of 0.19 indicating that New Oriental Education & Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a net margin of 8.17% compared to Driven Brands' net margin of -12.75%. Driven Brands' return on equity of 19.61% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
Driven Brands has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
77.1% of Driven Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Driven Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
New Oriental Education & Technology Group beats Driven Brands on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DRVN) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
