PRDO vs. GPX, DL, APEI, LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, and AFYA
Should you be buying Perdoceo Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perdoceo Education include GP Strategies (GPX), China Distance Education (DL), American Public Education (APEI), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), and Afya (AFYA).
Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and GP Strategies (NYSE:GPX) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
93.5% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.0% of GP Strategies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Perdoceo Education shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.0% of GP Strategies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perdoceo Education has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GP Strategies has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Perdoceo Education currently has a consensus price target of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.11%. Given Perdoceo Education's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Perdoceo Education is more favorable than GP Strategies.
Perdoceo Education has a net margin of 22.35% compared to GP Strategies' net margin of 2.73%. Perdoceo Education's return on equity of 17.09% beat GP Strategies' return on equity.
GP Strategies received 350 more outperform votes than Perdoceo Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.12% of users gave GP Strategies an outperform vote while only 59.46% of users gave Perdoceo Education an outperform vote.
Perdoceo Education has higher revenue and earnings than GP Strategies. Perdoceo Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GP Strategies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Perdoceo Education and Perdoceo Education both had 2 articles in the media. Perdoceo Education's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat GP Strategies' score of 0.00 indicating that Perdoceo Education is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Perdoceo Education beats GP Strategies on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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