BEDU vs. COE, HCMA, CHGG, IH, YSXT, STG, NAMI, KIDZ, MRM, and ZCMD
Should you be buying Bright Scholar Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Scholar Education include 51Talk Online Education Group (COE), HCM Acquisition (HCMA), Chegg (CHGG), iHuman (IH), YSX Tech (YSXT), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), NAMI (NAMI), Classover (KIDZ), MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies (MRM), and Zhongchao (ZCMD). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Bright Scholar Education vs. Its Competitors
Bright Scholar Education (NYSE:BEDU) and 51Talk Online Education Group (NYSE:COE) 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 valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
51Talk Online Education Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bright Scholar Education. 51Talk Online Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Scholar Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
26.1% of Bright Scholar Education shares are held by institutional investors. 84.8% of Bright Scholar Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of 51Talk Online Education Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
51Talk Online Education Group has a net margin of -24.26% compared to Bright Scholar Education's net margin of -58.44%. Bright Scholar Education's return on equity of 2.31% beat 51Talk Online Education Group's return on equity.
Bright Scholar Education has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 51Talk Online Education Group has a beta of -0.14, meaning that its stock price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bright Scholar Education and Bright Scholar Education both had 1 articles in the media. Bright Scholar Education's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat 51Talk Online Education Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Bright Scholar Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bright Scholar Education beats 51Talk Online Education Group on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:BEDU) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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