AIU vs. STG, QSG, YQ, IH, KUKE, BEDU, JZ, COE, AACG, and FEDU
Should you be buying Meta Data stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Data include Sunlands Technology Group (STG), QuantaSing Group (QSG), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), iHuman (IH), Kuke Music (KUKE), Bright Scholar Education (BEDU), Jianzhi Education Technology Group (JZ), 51Talk Online Education Group (COE), ATA Creativity Global (AACG), and Four Seasons Education (Cayman) (FEDU). These companies are all part of the "educational services" industry.
Meta Data (NYSE:AIU) and Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE:STG) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, Meta Data had 1 more articles in the media than Sunlands Technology Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Meta Data and 1 mentions for Sunlands Technology Group. Sunlands Technology Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Meta Data's score of -0.50 indicating that Sunlands Technology Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
0.4% of Meta Data shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.4% of Sunlands Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Meta Data shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 59.7% of Sunlands Technology Group shares are held 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.
Meta Data has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sunlands Technology Group has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Meta Data has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sunlands Technology Group.
Sunlands Technology Group received 111 more outperform votes than Meta Data when rated by MarketBeat users.
Sunlands Technology Group has a net margin of 27.11% compared to Meta Data's net margin of 0.00%. Sunlands Technology Group's return on equity of 284.13% beat Meta Data's return on equity.
Summary
Sunlands Technology Group beats Meta Data on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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