LAUR vs. ATGE, STRA, LRN, AFYA, GHC, PRDO, LOPE, TAL, CMPR, and CABO
Should you be buying Laureate Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Laureate Education include Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Strategic Education (STRA), Stride (LRN), Afya (AFYA), Graham (GHC), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), TAL Education Group (TAL), Cimpress (CMPR), and Cable One (CABO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) and Adtalem Global Education (NYSE:ATGE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and media sentiment.
Laureate Education has higher revenue and earnings than Adtalem Global Education. Laureate Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adtalem Global Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Adtalem Global Education had 3 more articles in the media than Laureate Education. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Adtalem Global Education and 21 mentions for Laureate Education. Adtalem Global Education's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Laureate Education's score of 0.35 indicating that Adtalem Global Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Laureate Education currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.59%. Adtalem Global Education has a consensus price target of $63.33, indicating a potential upside of 0.47%. Given Laureate Education's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Laureate Education is more favorable than Adtalem Global Education.
Adtalem Global Education received 101 more outperform votes than Laureate Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.72% of users gave Laureate Education an outperform vote while only 57.31% of users gave Adtalem Global Education an outperform vote.
Laureate Education has a net margin of 8.19% compared to Adtalem Global Education's net margin of 7.12%. Adtalem Global Education's return on equity of 14.06% beat Laureate Education's return on equity.
Laureate Education has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adtalem Global Education has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
96.3% of Laureate Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Adtalem Global Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Laureate Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Adtalem Global Education shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Adtalem Global Education beats Laureate Education on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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