TAL vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, EDU, CROX, NCLH, MHK, and DLB
Should you be buying TAL Education Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TAL Education Group include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Crocs (CROX), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Mohawk Industries (MHK), and Dolby Laboratories (DLB). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.33% compared to TAL Education Group's net margin of -5.30%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.75% beat TAL Education Group's return on equity.
37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, TAL Education Group and TAL Education Group both had 8 articles in the media. Grand Canyon Education's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat TAL Education Group's score of 0.28 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TAL Education Group received 29 more outperform votes than Grand Canyon Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.80% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 62.00% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
TAL Education Group presently has a consensus price target of $12.37, indicating a potential upside of 0.87%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus price target of $150.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.25%. Given Grand Canyon Education's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than TAL Education Group.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats TAL Education Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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