PRDO vs. AFYA, UTI, NRDY, VTRU, ATGE, LINC, APEI, REDU, BEDU, and LAUR
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Afya (AFYA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), and Laureate Education (LAUR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Afya received 23 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.90% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than Afya. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
88.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Afya shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 20.80% compared to Perdoceo Education's net margin of 13.54%. Afya's return on equity of 17.63% beat Perdoceo Education's return on equity.
Afya currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.21%. Perdoceo Education has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.95%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Afya is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
Afya has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Afya and Afya both had 4 articles in the media. Afya's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Perdoceo Education's score of -0.24 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Afya on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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