LOPE vs. BFAM, LRN, ATGE, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, EDU, TAL, and GHC
Should you be buying Grand Canyon Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grand Canyon Education include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education received 91 more outperform votes than Bright Horizons Family Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.07% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 57.83% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 5 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 3 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. Grand Canyon Education's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' score of 1.05 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grand Canyon Education currently has a consensus target price of $165.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.56%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus target price of $133.43, suggesting a potential downside of 2.97%. Given Grand Canyon Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.88% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 3.98%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.49% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
Grand Canyon Education has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Grand Canyon Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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