Both in Educational Services

Universal Technical Institute vs American Public Education

Over the past year UTI returned −20.5% and APEI returned +25.6%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.46.

UTI −20.5% APEI +25.6%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricUTIAPEI
Price$22.64$40.57
Market cap$1.25B$742.5M
Today−4.11%−8.42%
1 month+19.0%−6.4%
6 months−38.6%−30.3%
Year to date−13.4%+7.3%
1 year−30.6%+19.9%
Revenue growth (YoY)+7.2%+5.5%
Gross margin45.9%55.4%
Net margin1.0%5.7%
P/E (TTM)36.4×16.3×
Price / sales1.4×1.1×
Net cash$10.1M$135.5M
Dividend yield——
Volatility (60d)44.8%37.8%
Short % of float13.0%16.0%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).