NRDY vs. VTRU, UTI, LINC, APEI, QSG, PRDO, AFYA, JOUT, FUBO, and MCS
Should you be buying Nerdy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nerdy include Vitru (VTRU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), fuboTV (FUBO), and Marcus (MCS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) and Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Nerdy received 12 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
Vitru has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Nerdy's net margin of -20.77%. Vitru's return on equity of 10.95% beat Nerdy's return on equity.
Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vitru has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.
39.1% of Nerdy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Vitru shares are held by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vitru shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 5 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Nerdy and 0 mentions for Vitru. Nerdy's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Vitru's score of 0.00 indicating that Nerdy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vitru has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nerdy currently has a consensus price target of $4.71, indicating a potential upside of 68.97%. Vitru has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 71.36%. Given Vitru's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vitru is more favorable than Nerdy.
Summary
Vitru beats Nerdy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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