LOPE vs. LRN, STRA, ATGE, GHC, LAUR, TAL, AFYA, PRDO, EDU, and DISH
Should you be buying Grand Canyon Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grand Canyon Education include Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), TAL Education Group (TAL), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and DISH Network (DISH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Grand Canyon Education received 132 more outperform votes than Stride when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.19% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 66.89% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stride. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stride has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stride presently has a consensus price target of $50.67, indicating a potential upside of 12.54%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus price target of $133.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.57%. Given Stride's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Stride.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 20.42% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of 6.90%. Stride's return on equity of 31.06% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.1% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Stride shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Stride had 3 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Stride and 1 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. Stride's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 0.63 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Stride on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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