GOTU vs. LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, PRDO, UDMY, and UTI
Should you be buying Gaotu Techedu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gaotu Techedu include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Udemy (UDMY), and Universal Technical Institute (UTI). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Gaotu Techedu (NYSE:GOTU) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Gaotu Techedu has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its share price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grand Canyon Education has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grand Canyon Education received 494 more outperform votes than Gaotu Techedu when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 21.43% of users gave Gaotu Techedu an outperform vote.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Gaotu Techedu's net margin of -4.22%. Grand Canyon Education's return on equity of 31.81% beat Gaotu Techedu's return on equity.
Grand Canyon Education has higher revenue and earnings than Gaotu Techedu. Gaotu Techedu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grand Canyon Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Grand Canyon Education had 5 more articles in the media than Gaotu Techedu. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Grand Canyon Education and 1 mentions for Gaotu Techedu. Grand Canyon Education's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Gaotu Techedu's score of -0.50 indicating that Grand Canyon Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
48.4% of Gaotu Techedu shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.9% of Gaotu Techedu shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are owned 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.
Gaotu Techedu presently has a consensus target price of $6.58, suggesting a potential upside of 15.35%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $165.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.82%. Given Grand Canyon Education's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Gaotu Techedu.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Gaotu Techedu on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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