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DAO vs. GHC, LAUR, DRVN, HTZ, MCW, AFYA, PRDO, IRS, UDMY, and EVGO

Should you be buying Youdao stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Youdao include Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Hertz Global (HTZ), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Udemy (UDMY), and EVgo (EVGO). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.

Youdao vs.

Youdao (NYSE:DAO) and Graham (NYSE:GHC) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and risk.

Graham has a net margin of 4.86% compared to Youdao's net margin of 1.50%. Graham's return on equity of 5.79% beat Youdao's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Youdao1.50% -3.75% 5.07%
Graham 4.86%5.79%3.21%

In the previous week, Graham had 11 more articles in the media than Youdao. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Graham and 3 mentions for Youdao. Graham's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Youdao's score of 0.58 indicating that Graham is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Youdao
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Graham
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Youdao
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Graham
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Graham has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Youdao. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Youdao, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Youdao$5.63B0.19-$77.46M$0.1088.75
Graham$4.79B0.86$205.29M$142.636.64

Graham received 95 more outperform votes than Youdao when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.67% of users gave Graham an outperform vote while only 58.23% of users gave Youdao an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
YoudaoOutperform Votes
46
58.23%
Underperform Votes
33
41.77%
GrahamOutperform Votes
141
62.67%
Underperform Votes
84
37.33%

21.9% of Youdao shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. 43.0% of Youdao shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Graham shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Youdao has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Graham beats Youdao on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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DAO vs. The Competition

MetricYoudaoEducational services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.09B$1.00B$22.30B$19.21B
Dividend YieldN/A7.32%2.59%4.00%
P/E Ratio89.9011.1931.1433.43
Price / Sales0.191.56171.3929.29
Price / CashN/A27.8931.5117.52
Price / Book-3.522.585.614.55
Net Income-$77.46M$22.13M$194.12M$1.02B
7 Day Performance4.83%5.12%2.47%2.15%
1 Month Performance10.94%2.94%15.78%-2.07%
1 Year Performance149.30%3.33%29.84%5.47%

Youdao Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DAO
Youdao
0.8572 of 5 stars
$8.88
+2.4%
N/A+145.8%$1.09B$5.63B89.906,100
GHC
Graham
2.4032 of 5 stars
$924.29
+1.0%
N/A+28.3%$4.01B$4.79B18.1019,500Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
LAUR
Laureate Education
4.2287 of 5 stars
$19.74
flat
$20.00
+1.3%
+41.5%$2.98B$1.57B10.1835,000News Coverage
Positive News
DRVN
Driven Brands
4.0309 of 5 stars
$16.44
+0.6%
$20.50
+24.7%
+14.2%$2.70B$2.34B411.009,900Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
HTZ
Hertz Global
N/A$8.51
+2.5%
N/A+53.2%$2.62B$9.05B-0.9125,000Analyst Upgrade
MCW
Mister Car Wash
1.995 of 5 stars
$7.15
+0.7%
$8.50
+18.9%
+12.0%$2.32B$994.73M32.506,350Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
AFYA
Afya
2.2469 of 5 stars
$18.71
+0.7%
$17.60
-5.9%
+12.2%$1.75B$3.30B15.098,080Upcoming Earnings
PRDO
Perdoceo Education
3.5522 of 5 stars
$24.97
+0.2%
$35.00
+40.2%
+37.2%$1.64B$681.26M11.354,500Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
IRS
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima
1.5887 of 5 stars
$13.95
-3.2%
$13.00
-6.8%
+45.4%$1.06B$319.75B-3.261,401Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
UDMY
Udemy
3.4919 of 5 stars
$6.95
-0.1%
$10.29
+48.1%
-36.2%$1.03B$786.57M-12.191,680Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
EVGO
EVgo
3.4549 of 5 stars
$2.82
+3.3%
$5.78
+104.9%
+47.9%$863.83M$256.83M-6.71220Positive News
Gap Up

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