STRA vs. PRDO, BFAM, LOPE, LRN, ATGE, UTI, LINC, APEI, TAL, and GHC
Should you be buying Strategic Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Education include Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), TAL Education Group (TAL), and Graham (GHC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
93.3% of Strategic Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Strategic Education 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Perdoceo Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Strategic Education. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Strategic Education had 9 more articles in the media than Perdoceo Education. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Strategic Education and 5 mentions for Perdoceo Education. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Strategic Education's score of 0.51 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Strategic Education pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Perdoceo Education pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Strategic Education pays out 56.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Perdoceo Education pays out 19.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Strategic Education received 327 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.61% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Strategic Education has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Strategic Education presently has a consensus price target of $133.50, indicating a potential upside of 10.85%. Perdoceo Education has a consensus price target of $27.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.91%. Given Strategic Education's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Strategic Education's net margin of 8.70%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 17.09% beat Strategic Education's return on equity.
Summary
Strategic Education beats Perdoceo Education on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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