ATGE vs. BFAM, LOPE, LRN, STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, TAL, GHC, and LAUR
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), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), and Laureate Education (LAUR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
98.8% of Adtalem Global Education shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Adtalem Global Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Adtalem Global Education had 6 more articles in the media than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Adtalem Global Education and 4 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Adtalem Global Education's score of 0.83 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Adtalem Global Education has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adtalem Global Education currently has a consensus target price of $70.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.16%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a consensus target price of $107.43, suggesting a potential downside of 10.86%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bright Horizons Family Solutions is more favorable than Adtalem Global Education.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions received 6 more outperform votes than Adtalem Global Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.89% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote while only 57.37% of users gave Adtalem Global Education an outperform vote.
Adtalem Global Education has a net margin of 7.12% compared to Bright Horizons Family Solutions' net margin of 3.34%. Adtalem Global Education's return on equity of 14.06% beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity.
Adtalem Global Education has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. 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.
Summary
Adtalem Global Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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