GRAND CANYON EDUCATION, INC. vs UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, INC, two Education stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where LOPE and UTI diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), LOPE reads -0.8% and UTI reads +12.8%; on fcf yield, LOPE reads 5.8% and UTI reads -2.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's LOPE price has a different growth bar priced in than UTI (-0.8% implied for LOPE vs +12.8% for UTI); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What LOPE's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What UTI's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | LOPE | UTI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $159.84 | $20.64 |
| Market cap | $4.2B | $1.2B |
| Sector | Education | Education |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -0.8% | +12.8% |
| P/E | 19.4 | 33.8 |
| P/B | 6.26 | 3.35 |
| P/S | 3.67 | 1.31 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.9 | 14.6 |
| Revenue growth | +7.1% | +9.2% |
| Operating margin | 22.0% | 1.5% |
| Net margin | 19.6% | 3.9% |
| Return on equity | 33.5% | 10.0% |
| Return on assets | 24.4% | 3.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 31.5% | 6.5% |
| FCF yield | 5.8% | -2.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.46 |
| Current ratio | 2.82 | 1.30 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 10.00 | 2.51 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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