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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.

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

Strategic Education presently has a consensus target price of $107.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.08%. Given Strategic Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Bridgepoint Education.

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

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
Strategic Education10.44% 7.61% 5.89%
Bridgepoint Education 2.32%12.26%6.06%

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

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Strategic Education$1.23B1.71$69.79M$4.6818.69
Bridgepoint Education$443.37M2.58$4.64M$0.4789.53

Strategic Education has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgepoint Education has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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 1.24 beat Bridgepoint Education's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Strategic Education Positive
Bridgepoint Education Neutral

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

Summary

Strategic Education beats Bridgepoint Education on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BPI vs. The Competition

MetricBridgepoint EducationEducational Services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.14B$1.04B$7.86B$19.29B
Dividend YieldN/A6.77%3.25%3.83%
P/E Ratio89.5312.2215.1634.41
Price / Sales2.581.578.6434.88
Price / Cash8.5727.8916.3717.52
Price / Book8.952.444.764.69
Net Income$4.64M$22.13M$258.49M$1.02B

Bridgepoint Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BPI
Bridgepoint Education
N/A$42.08
+1.7%
N/AN/A$1.14B$443.37M89.534,790Gap Up
STRA
Strategic Education
3.7859 of 5 stars
$90.67
+0.4%
$107.67
+18.8%
-24.1%$2.17B$1.23B17.083,910News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
UTI
Universal Technical Institute
2.8767 of 5 stars
$34.86
+0.7%
$33.00
-5.3%
+134.5%$1.89B$782.69M35.801,950Positive News
Analyst Forecast
LINC
Lincoln Educational Services
4.126 of 5 stars
$21.10
-2.7%
$24.60
+16.6%
+80.5%$672.77M$454.20M66.552,060
APEI
American Public Education
4.3531 of 5 stars
$28.78
+3.3%
$31.25
+8.6%
+65.2%$525.99M$634.68M52.075,800
BFAM
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
3.401 of 5 stars
$123.95
-0.3%
$138.33
+11.6%
+17.2%$7.12B$2.73B51.7925,800Positive News
LRN
Stride
1.4558 of 5 stars
$156.17
+1.1%
$126.83
-18.8%
+122.0%$6.82B$2.29B26.157,500Positive News
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
3.6239 of 5 stars
$197.17
-0.1%
$201.00
+1.9%
+32.5%$5.60B$1.05B25.485,500Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
3.9281 of 5 stars
$133.57
-0.9%
$135.67
+1.6%
+96.2%$5.02B$1.74B25.094,680Positive News
GHC
Graham
2.4738 of 5 stars
$949.52
-1.3%
N/A+22.4%$4.16B$4.80B18.6719,500Positive News
LAUR
Laureate Education
4.263 of 5 stars
$22.67
-1.7%
$20.50
-9.6%
+36.1%$3.36B$1.53B11.6635,000Positive News
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This page (NYSE:BPI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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