LINC vs. APEI, UTI, QSG, NRDY, VTRU, IH, REDU, PRDO, WOW, and COOK
Should you be buying Lincoln Educational Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lincoln Educational Services include American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), iHuman (IH), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), WideOpenWest (WOW), and Traeger (COOK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Public Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services 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.
American Public Education currently has a consensus price target of $15.67, suggesting a potential upside of 24.24%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus price target of $12.13, suggesting a potential upside of 25.13%. Given American Public Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than American Public Education.
American Public Education received 62 more outperform votes than Lincoln Educational Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.00% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.88% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of -7.87%. American Public Education's return on equity of 9.63% beat Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 4 more articles in the media than American Public Education. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 4 mentions for American Public Education. Lincoln Educational Services' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat American Public Education's score of 0.03 indicating that American Public Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lincoln Educational Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Public Education. American Public Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats American Public Education on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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