ATGE vs. BFAM, LRN, LOPE, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, EDU, TAL, and GHC
Should you be buying Adtalem Global Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adtalem Global Education include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Stride (LRN), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), and Graham (GHC).
Adtalem Global Education vs.
Adtalem Global Education (NYSE:ATGE) and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Adtalem Global Education. Adtalem Global Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adtalem Global Education presently has a consensus target price of $135.67, indicating a potential upside of 5.82%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus target price of $138.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.44%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than Adtalem Global Education.
98.8% of Adtalem Global Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Adtalem Global Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Adtalem Global Education has a net margin of 12.34% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 5.22%. Adtalem Global Education's return on equity of 16.82% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
Adtalem Global Education has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Adtalem Global Education had 4 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Adtalem Global Education and 10 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Adtalem Global Education's score of 1.54 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Adtalem Global Education received 4 more outperform votes than Bright Horizons Family Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.61% of users gave Adtalem Global Education an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
Summary
Adtalem Global Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ATGE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff