APEI vs. LINC, UTI, VTRU, NRDY, QSG, YQ, IH, CDRO, DOYU, and SGC
Should you be buying American Public Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Public Education include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Vitru (VTRU), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Codere Online Luxembourg (CDRO), DouYu International (DOYU), and Superior Group of Companies (SGC). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) and Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
American Public Education has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to American Public Education's net margin of -6.78%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 9.79% beat American Public Education's return on equity.
American Public Education received 62 more outperform votes than Lincoln Educational Services when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave American Public Education an outperform vote.
American Public Education currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.24%. Lincoln Educational Services has a consensus price target of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 21.21%. Given Lincoln Educational Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than American Public Education.
Lincoln Educational Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than American Public Education. American Public Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Educational Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, American Public Education had 1 more articles in the media than Lincoln Educational Services. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for American Public Education and 6 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services. Lincoln Educational Services' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat American Public Education's score of 1.00 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
79.6% of American Public Education shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Public Education shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats American Public Education on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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