COUR vs. GDS, LNW, KD, CFLT, PATH, VRNS, WAY, SOUN, GLBE, and CCCS
Should you be buying Coursera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coursera include GDS (GDS), Light & Wonder (LNW), Kyndryl (KD), Confluent (CFLT), UiPath (PATH), Varonis Systems (VRNS), Waystar (WAY), SoundHound AI (SOUN), Global-e Online (GLBE), and CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Coursera vs. Its Competitors
GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.
GDS has a net margin of 40.83% compared to Coursera's net margin of -7.05%. GDS's return on equity of 1.40% beat Coursera's return on equity.
GDS has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GDS currently has a consensus price target of $46.93, indicating a potential upside of 18.43%. Coursera has a consensus price target of $11.40, indicating a potential upside of 11.09%. Given GDS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe GDS is more favorable than Coursera.
In the previous week, Coursera had 9 more articles in the media than GDS. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Coursera and 6 mentions for GDS. GDS's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Coursera's score of 0.33 indicating that GDS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
33.7% of GDS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Coursera shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of GDS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Coursera shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
GDS has higher revenue and earnings than Coursera. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GDS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
GDS beats Coursera on 12 of the 17 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:COUR) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
