NAAS vs. APEI, LINC, SGU, TLS, RMNI, QBTS, VLN, HEAR, AIP, and SLAM
Should you be buying NaaS Technology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NaaS Technology include American Public Education (APEI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Star Group (SGU), Telos (TLS), Rimini Street (RMNI), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), Valens Semiconductor (VLN), Turtle Beach (HEAR), Arteris (AIP), and Slam (SLAM).
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and NaaS Technology (NASDAQ:NAAS) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
American Public Education presently has a consensus target price of $15.67, indicating a potential upside of 14.44%. NaaS Technology has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 395.54%. Given American Public Education's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NaaS Technology is more favorable than American Public Education.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NaaS Technology has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NaaS Technology had 1 more articles in the media than American Public Education. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for NaaS Technology and 2 mentions for American Public Education. NaaS Technology's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat American Public Education's score of 0.73 indicating that American Public Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Public Education has higher revenue and earnings than NaaS Technology. American Public Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NaaS Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Public Education has a net margin of -7.87% compared to American Public Education's net margin of -409.83%. NaaS Technology's return on equity of 3.26% beat American Public Education's return on equity.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.8% of NaaS Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Public Education shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of NaaS Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
American Public Education received 330 more outperform votes than NaaS Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NaaS Technology an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
Summary
American Public Education beats NaaS Technology on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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