GHC vs. LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, LOPE, AFYA, PRDO, TAL, PRKS, and ASAI
Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), TAL Education Group (TAL), United Parks & Resorts (PRKS), and Sendas Distribuidora (ASAI). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Graham (NYSE:GHC) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Stride's net margin of 6.12%. Graham's return on equity of 18.29% beat Stride's return on equity.
Stride has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Graham has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Graham has higher revenue and earnings than Stride. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stride currently has a consensus price target of $72.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.55%. Given Graham's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Stride is more favorable than Graham.
98.2% of Stride shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Stride shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of Graham shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Stride received 237 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Stride had 4 more articles in the media than Graham. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Stride and 5 mentions for Graham. Graham's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Stride's score of 0.67 indicating that Stride is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Stride beats Graham on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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