EDU vs. TAL, LOPE, GHC, LRN, STRA, LAUR, ATGE, AFYA, GOTU, and PRDO
Should you be buying New Oriental Education & Technology Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Oriental Education & Technology Group include TAL Education Group (TAL), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Stride (LRN), Strategic Education (STRA), Laureate Education (LAUR), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Afya (AFYA), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), and Perdoceo Education (PRDO). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) and New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
TAL Education Group presently has a consensus price target of $13.28, suggesting a potential upside of 16.86%. New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a consensus price target of $100.75, suggesting a potential upside of 26.05%. Given TAL Education Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe New Oriental Education & Technology Group is more favorable than TAL Education Group.
TAL Education Group has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
37.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of TAL Education Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group received 75 more outperform votes than TAL Education Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.44% of users gave New Oriental Education & Technology Group an outperform vote while only 61.97% of users gave TAL Education Group an outperform vote.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has a net margin of 7.72% compared to New Oriental Education & Technology Group's net margin of -0.24%. TAL Education Group's return on equity of 8.11% beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, New Oriental Education & Technology Group had 2 more articles in the media than TAL Education Group. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for New Oriental Education & Technology Group and 8 mentions for TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat New Oriental Education & Technology Group's score of -0.01 indicating that New Oriental Education & Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than TAL Education Group. TAL Education Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Oriental Education & Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
New Oriental Education & Technology Group beats TAL Education Group on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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