TAL vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, EDU, MTN, CROX, DLB, and HAS
Should you be buying TAL Education Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TAL Education Group include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), Vail Resorts (MTN), Crocs (CROX), Dolby Laboratories (DLB), and Hasbro (HAS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
TAL Education Group received 29 more outperform votes than Grand Canyon Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.80% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 61.92% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education currently has a consensus price target of $150.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.20%. TAL Education Group has a consensus price target of $12.37, indicating a potential downside of 6.17%. Given TAL Education Group's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than TAL Education Group.
Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Grand Canyon Education has higher earnings, but lower revenue than TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.33% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of -0.24%. TAL Education Group's return on equity of 31.75% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
In the previous week, TAL Education Group had 3 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for TAL Education Group and 6 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. TAL Education Group's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Grand Canyon Education's score of 0.55 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats TAL Education Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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