LRN vs. STRA, ATGE, LOPE, LAUR, GHC, AFYA, PRDO, TAL, PENN, and PLTK
Should you be buying Stride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stride include Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Graham (GHC), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), TAL Education Group (TAL), PENN Entertainment (PENN), and Playtika (PLTK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Stride has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Education has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stride presently has a consensus price target of $71.75, indicating a potential upside of 23.28%. Strategic Education has a consensus price target of $124.25, indicating a potential upside of 25.06%. Given Strategic Education's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Stride.
Stride received 3 more outperform votes than Strategic Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.16% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 55.27% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Stride has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Stride had 5 more articles in the media than Strategic Education. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Stride and 7 mentions for Strategic Education. Strategic Education's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Stride's score of 0.47 indicating that Strategic Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stride has a net margin of 8.80% compared to Strategic Education's net margin of 6.16%. Stride's return on equity of 17.77% beat Strategic Education's return on equity.
98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Stride shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Stride beats Strategic Education on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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