LINC vs. APEI, UTI, VTRU, NRDY, QSG, IH, SSP, LIND, WOW, and CVEO
Should you be buying Lincoln Educational Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lincoln Educational Services include American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Vitru (VTRU), Nerdy (NRDY), QuantaSing Group (QSG), iHuman (IH), E.W. Scripps (SSP), Lindblad Expeditions (LIND), WideOpenWest (WOW), and Civeo (CVEO). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) and American Public Education (NASDAQ:APEI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
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.
Lincoln Educational Services presently has a consensus target price of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 22.13%. American Public Education has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential downside of 7.56%. Given Lincoln Educational Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than American Public Education.
72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of American Public Education shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of American Public Education shares are held 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.
Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Public Education has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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 4 more articles in the media than Lincoln Educational Services. MarketBeat recorded 10 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 0.74 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats American Public Education on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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