GOTU vs. FLYW, BFH, RAMP, PAYO, LSPD, HNI, STGW, PAY, CLBT, and FA
Should you be buying Gaotu Techedu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gaotu Techedu include Flywire (FLYW), Bread Financial (BFH), LiveRamp (RAMP), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), HNI (HNI), Stagwell (STGW), Paymentus (PAY), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), and First Advantage (FA). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) and Gaotu Techedu (NYSE:GOTU) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Flywire currently has a consensus target price of $31.29, indicating a potential upside of 85.67%. Gaotu Techedu has a consensus target price of $6.58, indicating a potential downside of 16.88%. Given Gaotu Techedu's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Flywire is more favorable than Gaotu Techedu.
Flywire has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gaotu Techedu has a beta of 0.07, indicating that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gaotu Techedu has a net margin of -0.10% compared to Gaotu Techedu's net margin of -2.63%. Flywire's return on equity of -0.10% beat Gaotu Techedu's return on equity.
Flywire received 73 more outperform votes than Gaotu Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.03% of users gave Flywire an outperform vote while only 21.43% of users gave Gaotu Techedu an outperform vote.
Gaotu Techedu has higher revenue and earnings than Flywire. Gaotu Techedu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flywire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Flywire had 19 more articles in the media than Gaotu Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Flywire and 3 mentions for Gaotu Techedu. Flywire's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Gaotu Techedu's score of 0.12 indicating that Gaotu Techedu is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.9% of Flywire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of Gaotu Techedu shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Flywire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.9% of Gaotu Techedu shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Flywire beats Gaotu Techedu on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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