GOTU vs. BFH, GEO, COUR, PAYO, HURN, NWTN, DSGR, STGW, HNI, and VVX
Should you be buying Gaotu Techedu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gaotu Techedu include Bread Financial (BFH), The GEO Group (GEO), Coursera (COUR), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), NWTN (NWTN), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Stagwell (STGW), HNI (HNI), and V2X (VVX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Gaotu Techedu (NYSE:GOTU) and Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
48.4% of Gaotu Techedu shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Bread Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 44.9% of Gaotu Techedu shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bread Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bread Financial had 9 more articles in the media than Gaotu Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Bread Financial and 4 mentions for Gaotu Techedu. Gaotu Techedu's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Bread Financial's score of -0.10 indicating that Gaotu Techedu is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bread Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Gaotu Techedu. Gaotu Techedu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bread Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gaotu Techedu presently has a consensus price target of $6.58, indicating a potential downside of 5.94%. Bread Financial has a consensus price target of $36.55, indicating a potential upside of 1.94%. Given Bread Financial's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bread Financial is more favorable than Gaotu Techedu.
Gaotu Techedu has a beta of 0.05, indicating that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bread Financial has a beta of 1.93, indicating that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bread Financial received 3 more outperform votes than Gaotu Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 21.43% of users gave Gaotu Techedu an outperform vote while only 13.95% of users gave Bread Financial an outperform vote.
Bread Financial has a net margin of 13.87% compared to Gaotu Techedu's net margin of -0.10%. Bread Financial's return on equity of 26.24% beat Gaotu Techedu's return on equity.
Summary
Bread Financial beats Gaotu Techedu on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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