PRDO vs. AFYA, ATGE, LAUR, UTI, NRDY, VTRU, APEI, STRA, BEDU, and REDU
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), Strategic Education (STRA), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), and RISE Education Cayman (REDU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Perdoceo Education's net margin of 16.20%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 17.51% beat Afya's return on equity.
88.0% of Afya shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than Afya. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Afya currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.39%. Perdoceo Education has a consensus price target of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.73%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Afya is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
Afya received 22 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Afya had 5 more articles in the media than Perdoceo Education. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Afya and 8 mentions for Perdoceo Education. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Afya's score of 0.82 indicating that Afya is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Afya has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Afya on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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