QSG vs. DAO, CHGG, LINC, NRDY, APEI, VSTA, STG, YQ, IH, and KUKE
Should you be buying QuantaSing Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QuantaSing Group include Youdao (DAO), Chegg (CHGG), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Nerdy (NRDY), American Public Education (APEI), Vasta Platform (VSTA), Sunlands Technology Group (STG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), and Kuke Music (KUKE). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Youdao (NYSE:DAO) and QuantaSing Group (NASDAQ:QSG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Youdao currently has a consensus price target of $4.60, indicating a potential upside of 23.32%. QuantaSing Group has a consensus price target of $9.85, indicating a potential upside of 277.39%. Given Youdao's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe QuantaSing Group is more favorable than Youdao.
Youdao received 44 more outperform votes than QuantaSing Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave QuantaSing Group an outperform vote while only 58.97% of users gave Youdao an outperform vote.
Youdao has a beta of -0.06, indicating that its share price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuantaSing Group has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
QuantaSing Group has a net margin of 5.78% compared to QuantaSing Group's net margin of -5.87%. Youdao's return on equity of 83.40% beat QuantaSing Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Youdao had 2 more articles in the media than QuantaSing Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Youdao and 4 mentions for QuantaSing Group. Youdao's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat QuantaSing Group's score of 0.55 indicating that QuantaSing Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
21.9% of Youdao shares are held by institutional investors. 43.0% of Youdao shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
QuantaSing Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Youdao. Youdao is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than QuantaSing Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
QuantaSing Group beats Youdao on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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