Posted by admin on Jul 24th, 2022
Udemy (NASDAQ:UDMY – Get Rating) and Afya (NASDAQ:AFYA – Get Rating) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
66.7% of Udemy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.0% of Afya shares are held by institutional investors. 39.2% of Udemy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
This table compares Udemy and Afya’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Afya has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Udemy.
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Udemy and Afya, as provided by MarketBeat.
Udemy currently has a consensus target price of $23.92, suggesting a potential upside of 96.84%. Afya has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 108.12%. Given Afya’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Afya is more favorable than Udemy.
This table compares Udemy and Afya’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Afya beats Udemy on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Udemy, Inc. operates a marketplace platform for teaching and learning skills in the United States and internationally. The company offers technical and business skills, and personal development courses for individual learners and enterprise customers. Its platform provides 49 million learners with access to approximately 180,000 courses through direct-to-consumer or Udemy Business offerings in approximately 75 languages. The company's courses offer learning objectives, such as reskilling or upskilling in technology and business, and soft skills, as well as learners receive access to interactive learning tools comprising quizzes, exercises, and instructor questions-and-answers. Udemy, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Afya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil. It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. The company also provides digital health services, such as subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others. It offers health sciences courses, which comprise medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine; and degree programs and courses in other subjects and disciplines, including undergraduate and post graduate courses in business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy. In addition, the company provides medical postgraduate specialization programs; printed and digital content; and an online medical education platform and practical medical training services. As of December 31, 2021, it operated a network of 46 undergraduate and graduate medical school campuses consisted of 30 undergrad operating units and five approved units; and a network of 2,731 medical school seats that consisted of 2,481 operating seats and 278 approved seats. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Nova Lima, Brazil.
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