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Bridgepoint Education (BPI) Competitors

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BPI vs. STRA, UTI, LINC, APEI, BFAM, LRN, LOPE, ATGE, GHC, and LAUR

Should you be buying Bridgepoint Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bridgepoint Education include Strategic Education (STRA), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Stride (LRN), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Graham (GHC), and Laureate Education (LAUR).

Bridgepoint Education vs. Its Competitors

Bridgepoint Education (NYSE:BPI) and Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Strategic Education has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgepoint Education. Bridgepoint Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Bridgepoint Education$443.37M0.00$4.64M$0.47N/A
Strategic Education$1.23B1.64$69.79M$4.6817.94

Bridgepoint Education has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Education has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Strategic Education received 66 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.02% of users gave Bridgepoint Education an outperform vote while only 56.12% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Bridgepoint EducationOutperform Votes
319
67.02%
Underperform Votes
157
32.98%
Strategic EducationOutperform Votes
385
56.12%
Underperform Votes
301
43.88%

Strategic Education has a consensus target price of $107.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.25%. Given Strategic Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Bridgepoint Education.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Bridgepoint Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Strategic Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Strategic Education had 7 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Education. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Strategic Education and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Education. Strategic Education's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Bridgepoint Education's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Bridgepoint Education Neutral
Strategic Education Positive

81.1% of Bridgepoint Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.9% of Bridgepoint Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Strategic Education has a net margin of 10.44% compared to Bridgepoint Education's net margin of 2.32%. Bridgepoint Education's return on equity of 12.26% beat Strategic Education's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Bridgepoint Education2.32% 12.26% 6.06%
Strategic Education 10.44%7.61%5.89%

Summary

Strategic Education beats Bridgepoint Education on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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BPI vs. The Competition

MetricBridgepoint EducationEducational Services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.10B$1.04B$7.91B$19.68B
Dividend YieldN/A6.01%3.28%3.81%
P/E Ratio86.0612.2614.9434.98
Price / SalesN/A1.573.6542.66
Price / Cash8.5727.8916.3717.51
Price / BookN/A2.444.764.78
Net Income$4.64M$22.13M$258.55M$1.02B

Bridgepoint Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BPI
Bridgepoint Education
N/AN/AN/AN/A$1.10B$443.37M86.064,790
STRA
Strategic Education
4.5611 of 5 stars
$83.53
-2.3%
$107.67
+28.9%
-23.1%$2.02B$1.23B15.913,910Positive News
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
2.8318 of 5 stars
$32.59
-2.0%
$35.83
+10.0%
+137.4%$1.77B$782.69M33.491,950Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
3.5235 of 5 stars
$21.27
-3.4%
$24.60
+15.7%
+106.4%$669.93M$454.20M66.272,060Insider Trade
APEI
American Public Education
4.5307 of 5 stars
$26.18
-3.3%
$31.25
+19.4%
+68.3%$472.76M$634.68M46.805,800
BFAM
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
4.0918 of 5 stars
$124.92
-0.2%
$138.33
+10.7%
+17.6%$7.15B$2.73B52.0525,800Positive News
LRN
Stride
1.3557 of 5 stars
$138.60
-1.9%
$126.83
-8.5%
+110.7%$6.03B$2.29B23.137,500Positive News
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.5134 of 5 stars
$184.35
-0.6%
$207.67
+12.7%
+32.9%$5.22B$1.05B23.755,500Positive News
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.5785 of 5 stars
$118.85
-2.1%
$135.67
+14.1%
+90.0%$4.41B$1.74B22.054,680Short Interest ↓
GHC
Graham
3.0914 of 5 stars
$953.04
+0.7%
N/A+32.4%$4.16B$4.80B18.6619,500Positive News
LAUR
Laureate Education
4.5358 of 5 stars
$21.86
-0.3%
$20.50
-6.2%
+54.8%$3.25B$1.53B11.2635,000Positive News

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