GSX vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, GOTU, PRDO, and UDMY
Should you be buying GSX Techedu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GSX Techedu include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), and Udemy (UDMY).
GSX Techedu (NYSE:GSX) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and community ranking.
GSX Techedu has a beta of -0.5, meaning that its share price is 150% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education has higher revenue and earnings than GSX Techedu. Grand Canyon Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GSX Techedu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grand Canyon Education received 432 more outperform votes than GSX Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 59.63% of users gave GSX Techedu an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education had 6 more articles in the media than GSX Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Grand Canyon Education and 0 mentions for GSX Techedu. Grand Canyon Education's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat GSX Techedu's score of 0.00 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $165.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.82%. Given Grand Canyon Education's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than GSX Techedu.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to GSX Techedu's net margin of -10.56%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.81% beat GSX Techedu's return on equity.
34.8% of GSX Techedu shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of GSX Techedu shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats GSX Techedu on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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