Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. CVSA scored 75.8, PRDO scored 77.3 — PRDO leads.
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CVSA
Covista Inc.
Education & Training Services · Quality-Growth
75.8
$129.38 · $4.4B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
1.5
PRDO leads
PRDO
Perdoceo Education Corporation
Education & Training Services · Quality-Growth
77.3
$33.71 · $2.1B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestPRDO12.3x
Fastest growthPRDO+11.7%
Strongest balance sheetPRDO0.11
Highest qualityPRDO89 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueCVSA-53%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
CVSA
stronger →← stronger
PRDO
82
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
89
72
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
72
75
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
72
CVSA and PRDO split the three pillars evenly.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
CVSA
PRDO
$393mC
FCF
$221mC
+9.3%B
Rev
+11.7%B
0.63B+
D/E
0.11A
17.3xB+
P/E
12.3xA-
0.96B+
PEG
0.68A-
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
CVSA
PRDO
53% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
52% below
~-10%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~-12%/yr
+95%
1-yr DCF upside
+102%
+113%
5-yr DCF upside
+107%
+144%
10-yr DCF upside
+113%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
CVSA
Why this score
Buying back stock
Durable high returns
PRDO
Why this score
Buying back stock
Raising its dividend
Durable high returns
The companies
CVSACovista Inc.
Education & Training Services · $129.38 · beta 0.65
Why now
Education & Training Services · market cap $4.4b. 17% off the 52-week high of $156.26. PEG 0.96 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 4 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $158.75 (implying +23% upside).
Moat
Net margin 13% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 19% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. FCF converts 147% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Value re-rating depends on a catalyst. Without one — analyst day, divestiture, margin recovery, capital return — the stock can stay cheap on these multiples for years.
PRDOPerdoceo Education Corporation
Education & Training Services · $33.71 · beta 0.72
Why now
Education & Training Services · market cap $2.1b. 12% off the 52-week high of $38.50. Revenue growing +12%, comfortably above the S&P median. PEG 0.68 — paying under fair value for the growth rate.
Moat
Net margin 21% sits well above the S&P median (~11%) — suggests structural pricing advantage or cost discipline competitors can't quickly close. ROE 17% is above 15% — the equity base is compounding at a rate the market struggles to discount accurately. FCF converts 125% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Value re-rating depends on a catalyst. Without one — analyst day, divestiture, margin recovery, capital return — the stock can stay cheap on these multiples for years.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
The model slightly favors CVSA (81.4) over PRDO (81.1) primarily due to its stronger Growth pillar score of 85 versus PRDO's 76. However, a contrarian might prefer PRDO, which boasts a superior Quality pillar score of 89 and implies even less future growth at negative 14% per year, suggesting greater pessimism is already priced in. No structural caveats apply here.
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Where CVSA and PRDO diverge
On the headline score the gap is 1.5 points in favor of PRDO. The widest single difference is Quality, where PRDO leads by 7.7 points.
QualityCVSA 81.7 · PRDO 89.4PRDO +7.7
ValueCVSA 74.5 · PRDO 72.0level
GrowthCVSA 71.6 · PRDO 71.7level
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is PRDO or CVSA the better stock?
PRDO scores higher: PRDO 77.3, CVSA 75.8 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do PRDO and CVSA differ most?
The widest gap is quality, where PRDO leads by 8 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. The other two pillars are close enough to call level, so this is the one place they genuinely separate.
How are PRDO and CVSA scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.