TAL vs. LOPE, GHC, STRA, LAUR, EDU, LBRDA, NCLH, LBRDK, CHDN, 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), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Churchill Downs (CHDN), and Dolby Laboratories (DLB). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.18, suggesting that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TAL Education Group received 30 more outperform votes than Grand Canyon Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.76% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 62.00% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, TAL Education Group had 3 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for TAL Education Group and 5 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. TAL Education Group's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 0.07 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.33% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of -5.30%. TAL Education Group's return on equity of 31.75% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
96.1% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.3% of TAL Education Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Grand Canyon Education currently has a consensus target price of $150.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.14%. TAL Education Group has a consensus target price of $12.37, suggesting a potential upside of 4.32%. Given TAL Education Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than TAL Education Group.
Grand Canyon Education has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats TAL Education Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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