GOTU vs. DRVN, LAUR, MCW, AFYA, PRDO, UDMY, SDA, HTZ, IRS, and ALLG
Should you be buying Gaotu Techedu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gaotu Techedu include Driven Brands (DRVN), Laureate Education (LAUR), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Udemy (UDMY), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), Hertz Global (HTZ), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), and Allego (ALLG). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Driven Brands (NASDAQ:DRVN) and Gaotu Techedu (NYSE:GOTU) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
Gaotu Techedu has a net margin of -17.63% compared to Driven Brands' net margin of -33.56%. Driven Brands' return on equity of 15.12% beat Gaotu Techedu's return on equity.
Driven Brands presently has a consensus price target of $17.95, indicating a potential upside of 30.96%. Gaotu Techedu has a consensus price target of $7.23, indicating a potential upside of 161.01%. Given Gaotu Techedu's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gaotu Techedu is more favorable than Driven Brands.
Gaotu Techedu has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Driven Brands. Gaotu Techedu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Driven Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Driven Brands received 43 more outperform votes than Gaotu Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.32% of users gave Driven Brands an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Gaotu Techedu an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Driven Brands had 3 more articles in the media than Gaotu Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Driven Brands and 0 mentions for Gaotu Techedu. Driven Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Gaotu Techedu's score of 0.00 indicating that Driven Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
77.1% of Driven Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Gaotu Techedu shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Driven Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.9% of Gaotu Techedu shares are owned by company 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.
Driven Brands has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gaotu Techedu has a beta of -0.01, meaning that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Driven Brands beats Gaotu Techedu on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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