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Bright Scholar Education (BEDU) Competitors

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BEDU vs. COE, CHGG, HCMA, IH, YSXT, NAMI, STG, 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), Chegg (CHGG), HCM Acquisition (HCMA), iHuman (IH), YSX Tech (YSXT), NAMI (NAMI), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bright Scholar Education-58.44% 2.31% 0.61%
51Talk Online Education Group -24.26%N/A -30.40%

26.0% of Bright Scholar Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.8% of Bright Scholar Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of 51Talk Online Education Group shares are owned by 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.

Bright Scholar Education has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 51Talk Online Education Group has a beta of 0.05, suggesting that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Bright Scholar Education's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled 51Talk Online Education Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bright Scholar Education Neutral
51Talk Online Education Group Neutral

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bright Scholar Education$175.19M0.30-$140.52M-$4.70-0.37
51Talk Online Education Group$59.49M2.80-$15.03M-$0.82-34.70

Summary

Bright Scholar Education beats 51Talk Online Education Group on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BEDU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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BEDU vs. The Competition

MetricBright Scholar EducationSCHOOLS IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$52.32M$1.54B$8.21B$20.66B
Dividend YieldN/A4.18%3.14%3.65%
P/E Ratio-0.3713.0320.9527.28
Price / Sales0.302.134.0654.68
Price / Cash5.4014.9216.7522.28
Price / Book0.612.964.834.60
Net Income-$140.52M$76.25M$215.29M$995.22M
7 Day Performance1.73%1.83%-0.14%-0.78%
1 Month Performance-6.13%13.73%38.51%3.58%
1 Year Performance-14.36%25.32%13.94%7.35%

Bright Scholar Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BEDU
Bright Scholar Education
N/A$1.76
+1.1%
N/A-12.7%$52.32M$175.19M-0.372,193
COE
51Talk Online Education Group
0.0824 of 5 stars
$31.00
+12.9%
N/A+121.6%$181.26M$59.49M-17.32620High Trading Volume
CHGG
Chegg
3.1858 of 5 stars
$1.34
-7.3%
$1.70
+27.3%
-57.8%$153.46M$617.57M-0.161,271Gap Up
HCMA
HCM Acquisition
N/A$10.71
+6.9%
N/A-8.2%$151.46MN/A0.00N/AGap Down
IH
iHuman
1.7448 of 5 stars
$2.43
-2.8%
N/A+30.3%$130.04M$126.34M9.001,120
YSXT
YSX Tech
N/A$5.37
-1.1%
N/AN/A$119.86MN/A0.0040Gap Up
High Trading Volume
NAMI
NAMI
N/A$1.11
+0.9%
N/AN/A$75.20MN/A0.00N/ATrending News
Gap Up
STG
Sunlands Technology Group
1.2236 of 5 stars
$5.86
+6.3%
N/A+38.5%$74.49M$272.66M1.882,071Gap Up
KIDZ
Classover
N/A$2.74
-1.4%
N/AN/A$65.86MN/A0.00N/A
MRM
MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies
0.5996 of 5 stars
$1.39
-1.4%
N/A-64.2%$39.46M$8.30B0.00480
ZCMD
Zhongchao
0.5308 of 5 stars
$1.13
-3.4%
N/A-13.5%$29.50M$15.86M0.00140Positive News

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