EDU vs. SCI, TAL, GHC, LAUR, DRVN, HTZ, MCW, AFYA, PRDO, and IRS
Should you be buying New Oriental Education & Technology Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Oriental Education & Technology Group include Service Co. International (SCI), TAL Education Group (TAL), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Hertz Global (HTZ), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), and IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group vs.
Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Service Co. International has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Service Co. International currently has a consensus target price of $88.50, suggesting a potential upside of 11.07%. New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a consensus target price of $60.80, suggesting a potential upside of 24.49%. Given New Oriental Education & Technology Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe New Oriental Education & Technology Group is more favorable than Service Co. International.
In the previous week, Service Co. International had 2 more articles in the media than New Oriental Education & Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Service Co. International and 13 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Service Co. International's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's score of 0.47 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Service Co. International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New Oriental Education & Technology Group. New Oriental Education & Technology Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Service Co. International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group received 262 more outperform votes than Service Co. International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.06% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 65.79% of users gave New Oriental Education & Technology Group an outperform vote.
Service Co. International has a net margin of 12.39% compared to New Oriental Education & Technology Group's net margin of 8.13%. Service Co. International's return on equity of 32.18% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
85.5% of Service Co. International shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Service Co. International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Service Co. International beats New Oriental Education & Technology Group on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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