GEO vs. COUR, PAYO, GOTU, NWTN, BFH, HNI, LSPD, HURN, RAMP, and DSGR
Should you be buying The GEO Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The GEO Group include Coursera (COUR), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), NWTN (NWTN), Bread Financial (BFH), HNI (HNI), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Huron Consulting Group (HURN), LiveRamp (RAMP), and Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Coursera (NYSE:COUR) and The GEO Group (NYSE:GEO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
The GEO Group received 428 more outperform votes than Coursera when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.68% of users gave The GEO Group an outperform vote while only 68.22% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote.
The GEO Group has higher revenue and earnings than Coursera. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The GEO Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The GEO Group has a net margin of 4.72% compared to The GEO Group's net margin of -18.33%. Coursera's return on equity of 9.43% beat The GEO Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Coursera had 33 more articles in the media than The GEO Group. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Coursera and 10 mentions for The GEO Group. Coursera's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat The GEO Group's score of 0.26 indicating that The GEO Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Coursera presently has a consensus target price of $18.30, indicating a potential upside of 79.24%. The GEO Group has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.13%. Given The GEO Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coursera is more favorable than The GEO Group.
Coursera has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The GEO Group has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.6% of Coursera shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of The GEO Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Coursera shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of The GEO Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
The GEO Group beats Coursera on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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