LAUR vs. STRA, LRN, ATGE, AFYA, GHC, PRDO, LOPE, TAL, CABO, and CNK
Should you be buying Laureate Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Laureate Education include Strategic Education (STRA), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Graham (GHC), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), TAL Education Group (TAL), Cable One (CABO), and Cinemark (CNK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) and Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Laureate Education has a net margin of 7.26% compared to Laureate Education's net margin of 6.16%. Strategic Education's return on equity of 12.69% beat Laureate Education's return on equity.
Laureate Education has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Laureate Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Strategic Education has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Laureate Education has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Strategic Education received 68 more outperform votes than Laureate Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.72% of users gave Laureate Education an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Strategic Education presently has a consensus target price of $124.25, indicating a potential upside of 26.64%. Laureate Education has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.14%. Given Laureate Education's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Laureate Education.
In the previous week, Strategic Education had 7 more articles in the media than Laureate Education. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Strategic Education and 6 mentions for Laureate Education. Strategic Education's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Laureate Education's score of 0.69 indicating that Laureate Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of Laureate Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Laureate Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Laureate Education beats Strategic Education on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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