PRDO vs. VTRU, AFYA, NRDY, QSG, UTI, LRN, ATGE, STRA, LAUR, and GHC
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Vitru (VTRU), Afya (AFYA), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Perdoceo Education vs.
Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
53.0% of Vitru shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perdoceo Education received 15 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.71% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 52.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote.
Vitru presently has a consensus target price of $22.75, indicating a potential upside of 44.35%. Perdoceo Education has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 59.26%. Given Perdoceo Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Perdoceo Education is more favorable than Vitru.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than Vitru. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Vitru had 1 more articles in the media than Perdoceo Education. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Vitru and 5 mentions for Perdoceo Education. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Vitru's score of 0.73 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 13.88% compared to Vitru's net margin of 7.94%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 16.28% beat Vitru's return on equity.
Vitru has a beta of -0.18, meaning that its share price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Vitru on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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