NRDY vs. VTRU, UTI, LINC, APEI, QSG, PRDO, AFYA, AMCX, FUBO, and RICK
Should you be buying Nerdy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nerdy include Vitru (VTRU), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), AMC Networks (AMCX), fuboTV (FUBO), and RCI Hospitality (RICK). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Nerdy (NYSE:NRDY) and Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
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.
Nerdy currently has a consensus target price of $4.71, suggesting a potential upside of 77.56%. Vitru has a consensus target price of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 86.57%. Given Vitru's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vitru is more favorable than Nerdy.
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.
In the previous week, Nerdy had 8 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Nerdy and 2 mentions for Vitru. Nerdy's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Vitru's score of 0.00 indicating that Nerdy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nerdy received 12 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Nerdy an outperform vote.
39.1% of Nerdy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Vitru shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of Nerdy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nerdy has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vitru has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vitru beats Nerdy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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