EDU vs. TAL, LOPE, NWSA, FWONA, NWS, POOL, SIRI, H, PARAA, and FOXA
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 TAL Education Group (TAL), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), News (NWSA), Formula One Group (FWONA), News (NWS), Pool (POOL), Sirius XM (SIRI), Hyatt Hotels (H), Paramount Global (PARAA), and FOX (FOXA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a net margin of 8.54% compared to New Oriental Education & Technology Group's net margin of -5.30%. TAL Education Group's return on equity of 7.97% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
37.3% of TAL Education Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are held 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.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group received 73 more outperform votes than TAL Education Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.33% of users gave New Oriental Education & Technology Group an outperform vote while only 62.00% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
TAL Education Group presently has a consensus price target of $12.37, suggesting a potential upside of 4.32%. New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a consensus price target of $72.67, suggesting a potential downside of 20.72%. Given New Oriental Education & Technology Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe TAL Education Group is more favorable than New Oriental Education & Technology Group.
TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Oriental Education & Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, New Oriental Education & Technology Group had 1 more articles in the media than TAL Education Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group and 8 mentions for TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's score of 0.07 indicating that New Oriental Education & Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
New Oriental Education & Technology Group beats TAL Education Group on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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