VTRU vs. NRDY, LINC, UTI, APEI, QSG, PRDO, AFYA, MCS, JOUT, and REAL
Should you be buying Vitru stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vitru include Nerdy (NRDY), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), American Public Education (APEI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Marcus (MCS), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), and RealReal (REAL). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) and Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
Vitru has a net margin of 5.44% compared to Nerdy's net margin of -20.77%. Vitru's return on equity of 10.95% beat Nerdy's return on equity.
74.5% of Vitru shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.1% of Nerdy shares are held by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are held 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.
Nerdy received 13 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.82% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote while only 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote.
Vitru has higher revenue and earnings than Nerdy. Nerdy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vitru has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 13 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Nerdy and 2 mentions for Vitru. Nerdy's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Vitru's score of 0.00 indicating that Nerdy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vitru presently has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 93.28%. Nerdy has a consensus price target of $4.71, suggesting a potential upside of 109.52%. Given Nerdy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nerdy is more favorable than Vitru.
Summary
Vitru and Nerdy tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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