LRN vs. STRA, ATGE, LOPE, LAUR, GHC, AFYA, PRDO, TAL, CUK, and MANU
Should you be buying Stride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stride include Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Graham (GHC), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), TAL Education Group (TAL), Carnival Co. & (CUK), and Manchester United (MANU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) and Stride (NYSE:LRN) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
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.
Strategic Education currently has a consensus price target of $131.75, suggesting a potential upside of 8.83%. Stride has a consensus price target of $72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.33%. Given Stride's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Stride.
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.
Stride received 2 more outperform votes than Strategic Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 55.47% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Stride's net margin of 8.70%. Strategic Education's return on equity of 18.29% beat Stride's return on equity.
93.3% of Strategic Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.2% of Stride shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Stride shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Stride had 14 more articles in the media than Strategic Education. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Stride and 28 mentions for Strategic Education. Strategic Education's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Stride's score of 0.67 indicating that Stride is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Stride beats Strategic Education on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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