QSG vs. APEI, LINC, IH, VTRU, UTI, NRDY, JAKK, HOFT, DOYU, and AAN
Should you be buying QuantaSing Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuantaSing Group include American Public Education (APEI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), iHuman (IH), Vitru (VTRU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), JAKKS Pacific (JAKK), Hooker Furnishings (HOFT), DouYu International (DOYU), and Aaron's (AAN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and QuantaSing Group (NASDAQ:QSG) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
American Public Education received 329 more outperform votes than QuantaSing Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave QuantaSing Group an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of American Public Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, American Public Education had 12 more articles in the media than QuantaSing Group. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for American Public Education and 1 mentions for QuantaSing Group. American Public Education's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat QuantaSing Group's score of 0.22 indicating that QuantaSing Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
American Public Education currently has a consensus price target of $15.67, suggesting a potential upside of 6.58%. QuantaSing Group has a consensus price target of $9.85, suggesting a potential upside of 134.52%. Given American Public Education's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe QuantaSing Group is more favorable than American Public Education.
QuantaSing Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Public Education. American Public Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QuantaSing Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuantaSing Group has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
QuantaSing Group has a net margin of 5.78% compared to QuantaSing Group's net margin of -7.87%. American Public Education's return on equity of 83.40% beat QuantaSing Group's return on equity.
Summary
QuantaSing Group beats American Public Education on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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