APEI vs. LINC, REDU, UTI, QSG, IH, KUKE, BEDU, NRDY, VTRU, and AAN
Should you be buying American Public Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Public Education include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), iHuman (IH), Kuke Music (KUKE), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), and Aaron's (AAN). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and media sentiment.
American Public Education received 62 more outperform votes than Lincoln Educational Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.08% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 60.81% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
Lincoln Educational Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Public Education. American Public Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Public Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.88% compared to American Public Education's net margin of -7.87%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 9.63% beat American Public Education's return on equity.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 7 more articles in the media than American Public Education. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 10 mentions for American Public Education. American Public Education's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of -0.03 indicating that American Public Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Public Education presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.69%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus target price of $12.13, indicating a potential upside of 13.74%. Given American Public Education's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe American Public Education is more favorable than Lincoln Educational Services.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats American Public Education on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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