Strategic Education (STRA) Competitors

$119.09
-0.75 (-0.63%)
(As of 05/17/2024 ET)

STRA vs. LRN, ATGE, GSX, LOPE, GHC, LAUR, AFYA, PRDO, CHGG, and DAO

Should you be buying Strategic Education stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Education include Stride (LRN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), GSX Techedu (GSX), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Graham (GHC), Laureate Education (LAUR), Afya (AFYA), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Chegg (CHGG), and Youdao (DAO).

Strategic Education vs.

Stride (NYSE:LRN) and Strategic Education (NASDAQ:STRA) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.

Stride received 1 more outperform votes than Strategic Education when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.14% of users gave Stride an outperform vote while only 55.54% of users gave Strategic Education an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
StrideOutperform Votes
372
69.14%
Underperform Votes
166
30.86%
Strategic EducationOutperform Votes
371
55.54%
Underperform Votes
297
44.46%

Stride has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Stride's net margin of 8.70%. Strategic Education's return on equity of 18.29% beat Stride's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Stride9.29% 18.29% 10.26%
Strategic Education 8.70%6.78%5.15%

Stride currently has a consensus target price of $72.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.55%. Strategic Education has a consensus target price of $133.50, suggesting a potential upside of 12.10%. Given Stride's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Strategic Education is more favorable than Stride.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Stride
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
Strategic Education
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

98.2% of Stride shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.3% of Strategic Education shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Stride shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Strategic Education shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Stride has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Education has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Stride has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Education. Stride is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Education, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Stride$1.84B1.65$126.87M$4.2616.48
Strategic Education$1.17B2.51$69.79M$4.2228.22

In the previous week, Stride had 2 more articles in the media than Strategic Education. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Stride and 7 mentions for Strategic Education. Stride's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Strategic Education's score of 0.71 indicating that Strategic Education is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Stride
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Strategic Education
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Stride beats Strategic Education on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding STRA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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STRA vs. The Competition

MetricStrategic EducationEducational services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.93B$1.02B$6.91B$7.98B
Dividend Yield2.00%1.59%2.76%3.91%
P/E Ratio28.228.4816.4616.14
Price / Sales2.511.755.8285.30
Price / Cash19.7922.5531.9531.98
Price / Book1.782.186.714.64
Net Income$69.79M$24.69M$195.60M$217.28M
7 Day Performance-1.37%3.40%2.60%2.90%
1 Month Performance21.38%15.50%7.50%6.66%
1 Year Performance52.64%19.88%6.77%9.89%

Strategic Education Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LRN
Stride
2.0082 of 5 stars
$71.78
+1.6%
$72.00
+0.3%
+68.5%$3.11B$1.84B16.857,800Short Interest ↓
ATGE
Adtalem Global Education
4.0951 of 5 stars
$65.73
+1.0%
$63.33
-3.6%
+51.9%$2.47B$1.45B24.719,655Analyst Revision
News Coverage
GSX
GSX Techedu
0 of 5 stars
$7.75
+5.4%
N/A+183.1%$1.85B$303.78M-20.396,435
LOPE
Grand Canyon Education
4.591 of 5 stars
$144.50
-1.7%
$163.33
+13.0%
+29.2%$4.37B$985.45M20.215,800Positive News
GHC
Graham
3.0951 of 5 stars
$764.38
+0.4%
N/A+29.5%$3.39B$4.41B12.6719,900Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
LAUR
Laureate Education
4.4927 of 5 stars
$16.11
-0.2%
$17.00
+5.5%
+32.8%$2.54B$1.51B21.7728,900Short Interest ↓
AFYA
Afya
3.3563 of 5 stars
$18.66
+0.9%
$23.00
+23.3%
+67.4%$1.75B$576.09M17.449,680Short Interest ↓
Positive News
PRDO
Perdoceo Education
2.6189 of 5 stars
$23.66
-0.9%
$25.00
+5.7%
+91.8%$1.55B$710M10.424,350
CHGG
Chegg
4.9713 of 5 stars
$4.68
+2.4%
$7.31
+56.3%
-53.6%$478.39M$716.29M-24.631,979Short Interest ↓
DAO
Youdao
0.4632 of 5 stars
$3.94
+2.1%
$4.60
+16.8%
-25.2%$476.43M$762.52M-6.254,364Upcoming Earnings
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This page (NASDAQ:STRA) was last updated on 5/19/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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