VTRU vs. NRDY, QSG, PRDO, UTI, LINC, BEDU, IH, AFYA, LRN, and ATGE
Should you be buying Vitru stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vitru include Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), iHuman (IH), Afya (AFYA), Stride (LRN), and Adtalem Global Education (ATGE). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Vitru vs.
Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) and Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Nerdy received 3 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.71% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 54.05% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
Vitru has a net margin of 7.94% compared to Nerdy's net margin of -22.73%. Vitru's return on equity of 13.30% beat Nerdy's return on equity.
Vitru has a beta of -0.18, suggesting that its share price is 118% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nerdy has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vitru currently has a consensus target price of $22.75, suggesting a potential upside of 43.99%. Nerdy has a consensus target price of $4.75, suggesting a potential upside of 83.75%. Given Nerdy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Vitru.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 1 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nerdy and 2 mentions for Vitru. Vitru's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Nerdy's score of 0.18 indicating that Vitru is being referred to more favorably in the media.
53.0% of Vitru shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.8% of Nerdy shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Vitru shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.8% of Nerdy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Vitru has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Vitru beats Nerdy on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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