BEDU vs. STG, IH, CHGG, HCMA, NAMI, AACG, MRM, YSXT, VERB, and KUKE
Should you be buying Bright Scholar Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bright Scholar Education include Sunlands Technology Group (STG), iHuman (IH), Chegg (CHGG), HCM Acquisition (HCMA), NAMI (NAMI), ATA (AACG), MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies (MRM), YSX Tech (YSXT), Verb Technology (VERB), and Kuke Music (KUKE). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Bright Scholar Education vs. Its Competitors
Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE:STG) and Bright Scholar Education (NYSE:BEDU) are both small-cap personal services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.
Sunlands Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than Bright Scholar Education. Bright Scholar Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sunlands Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sunlands Technology Group and Sunlands Technology Group both had 1 articles in the media. Bright Scholar Education's average media sentiment score of 1.96 beat Sunlands Technology Group's score of -0.30 indicating that Bright Scholar Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sunlands Technology Group has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bright Scholar Education has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sunlands Technology Group has a net margin of 17.47% compared to Bright Scholar Education's net margin of -58.44%. Sunlands Technology Group's return on equity of 53.95% beat Bright Scholar Education's return on equity.
26.4% of Sunlands Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.0% of Bright Scholar Education shares are held by institutional investors. 59.7% of Sunlands Technology Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 84.8% of Bright Scholar Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sunlands Technology Group beats Bright Scholar Education on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:BEDU) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff