GHC vs. LRN, LOPE, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, PRDO, TAL, TNL, and YETI
Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Stride (LRN), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), TAL Education Group (TAL), Travel + Leisure (TNL), and YETI (YETI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Graham (NYSE:GHC) and Stride (NYSE:LRN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
62.5% of Graham shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of Graham shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Stride shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Stride had 26 more articles in the media than Graham. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Stride and 3 mentions for Graham. Stride's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Graham's score of 0.56 indicating that Stride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Graham has higher revenue and earnings than Stride. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stride has a consensus price target of $71.75, suggesting a potential upside of 12.07%. Given Stride's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Stride is more favorable than Graham.
Graham has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stride has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Graham's net margin of 4.65%. Stride's return on equity of 18.86% beat Graham's return on equity.
Stride received 238 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.22% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 62.44% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
Summary
Stride beats Graham on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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