PRDO vs. AFYA, ATGE, LAUR, UTI, NRDY, VTRU, APEI, STRA, BEDU, and REDU
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Nerdy (NRDY), Vitru (VTRU), American Public Education (APEI), Strategic Education (STRA), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), and RISE Education Cayman (REDU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA) and Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Afya received 22 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave Afya an outperform vote.
88.0% of Afya shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Afya shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Afya has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Perdoceo Education's net margin of 16.20%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 17.51% beat Afya's return on equity.
In the previous week, Afya had 3 more articles in the media than Perdoceo Education. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Afya and 3 mentions for Perdoceo Education. Afya's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Perdoceo Education's score of 0.82 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Afya currently has a consensus target price of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.62%. Perdoceo Education has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.38%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Afya is more favorable than Perdoceo Education.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than Afya. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Afya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats Afya on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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