LOPE vs. BFAM, LRN, STRA, ATGE, GSX, UTI, LINC, APEI, EDU, and TAL
Should you be buying Grand Canyon Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Grand Canyon Education include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), GSX Techedu (GSX), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), American Public Education (APEI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), and TAL Education Group (TAL).
Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) and Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Grand Canyon Education has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Grand Canyon Education is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bright Horizons Family Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $107.43, suggesting a potential upside of 2.20%. Grand Canyon Education has a consensus target price of $165.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.82%. Given Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Grand Canyon Education is more favorable than Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
In the previous week, Bright Horizons Family Solutions had 1 more articles in the media than Grand Canyon Education. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Bright Horizons Family Solutions and 6 mentions for Grand Canyon Education. Grand Canyon Education's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Bright Horizons Family Solutions' score of 1.35 indicating that Bright Horizons Family Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more 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 90 more outperform votes than Bright Horizons Family Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.98% of users gave Grand Canyon Education an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave Bright Horizons Family Solutions an outperform vote.
94.2% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Grand Canyon Education shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Grand Canyon Education has a net margin of 21.66% compared to Grand Canyon Education's net margin of 3.34%. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' return on equity of 31.81% beat Grand Canyon Education's return on equity.
Summary
Grand Canyon Education beats Bright Horizons Family Solutions on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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