STRA vs. LRN, ATGE, LOPE, GHC, LAUR, AFYA, GSX, PRDO, CHGG, and DAO
Should you be buying Strategic Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Education include Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Afya (AFYA), GSX Techedu (GSX), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Chegg (CHGG), and Youdao (DAO).
Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) and Stride (NYSE:LRN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Stride received 1 more outperform votes than Strategic Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 55.54% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Stride shares are owned by company 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.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Strategic Education's net margin of 8.70%. Stride's return on equity of 18.29% beat Strategic Education's return on equity.
Strategic Education presently has a consensus price target of $133.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.34%. Stride has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.50%. Given Strategic Education's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Stride.
Strategic Education has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stride has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Strategic Education had 8 more articles in the media than Stride. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Strategic Education and 32 mentions for Stride. Stride's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Strategic Education's score of 0.51 indicating that Stride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stride has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Stride beats Strategic Education on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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