Price
$45.72-20.94%Social Signal Score
Analyst Ratings
19 analystsRevenue
$171.73M+132.69%Analyst Estimates
Consensus estimates, not results. Via Financial Modeling Prep.
Company Profile
- CEO
- Angela K. Selden
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Education & Training Services
- Employees
- 5,841
- Beta
- 1.39
- Country
- US
- Piotroski score
- 8 / 9 (Strong)
- Altman Z-score
- 4.26
Financials
Revenue
$171.73M+132.7%Net Income
$9.77M+2897.9%EBITDA
$18.11M+19.3%Free Cash Flow
$7.40M-29.6%EPS (diluted)
$0.52+2500.0%Shares Outstanding (diluted)
18.81M+15.9%Operating Expenses
$77.61MCash & Debt
$76.26MReturn of Capital
$4.14MRevenue by Segment (annual)
$648.86MQuote
Valuation & Ratios
Returns & Efficiency
Revenue & Net Income (Annual)
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Net Income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $648.86M | $31.56M | $1.40 |
| 2024 | $624.56M | $16.11M | $0.57 |
| 2023 | $600.54M | $-47.29M | $-2.94 |
| 2022 | $606.33M | $-114.99M | $-6.10 |
| 2021 | $418.80M | $17.75M | $0.98 |
| 2020 | $321.79M | $18.82M | $1.27 |
| 2019 | $286.27M | $10.01M | $0.62 |
| 2018 | $297.69M | $25.64M | $1.56 |
| 2017 | $299.25M | $21.12M | $1.30 |
| 2016 | $313.14M | $24.16M | $1.50 |
| 2015 | $327.91M | $32.41M | $1.94 |
| 2014 | $350.02M | $40.88M | $2.36 |
| 2013 | $329.48M | $42.03M | $2.38 |
| 2012 | $313.52M | $42.32M | $2.38 |
Valuation
Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.
Seeded from APEI's reported EPS growth of -4.0% a year over 13 years.
- EPS in 5 years
- $1.43
- Implied price
- $38.57
- Return from $43.73
- -2.5% a year
To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $19.18 — -56.1% below today's price.
How sensitive is that answer?
Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.
| growth \ P/E | 19 | 23 | 27 | 31 | 35 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -14.0% | -18.6% | -15.4% | -12.6% | -10.2% | -8.0% |
| -9.0% | -13.8% | -10.5% | -7.6% | -5.0% | -2.6% |
| -4.0% | -9.1% | -5.6% | -2.5% | 0.3% | 2.7% |
| 1.0% | -4.4% | -0.6% | 2.6% | 5.5% | 8.1% |
| 6.0% | 0.4% | 4.3% | 7.7% | 10.7% | 13.4% |
This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.
Signal Score (90d)
70-51.16%Social Signal Score
Mentions (16)
- Newszacks.com·23h ago·Positive
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View source ↗ - Newszacks.com·18d ago·Positive
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View source ↗ - Newszacks.com·26d ago·Neutral
American Public Education (APEI) Down 0.8% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Rebound? American Public Education (APEI) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock?
View source ↗ - Newsprnewswire.com·27d ago·Neutral
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American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
View source ↗ - Newsmarketbeat.com·56d ago·Neutral
American Public Education Q2 Earnings Call Highlights American Public Education NASDAQ: APEI raised its full-year 2026 outlook after reporting second-quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA that exceeded the high end of its guidance ranges. The company also completed the institutional combination of its education units and announced plans to implement an AI-enabled student lifecycle platform with Salesforce.
View source ↗ - Newszacks.com·56d ago·Neutral
American Public Education (APEI) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Surpass Estimates American Public Education (APEI) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.52 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.36 per share. This compares to a loss of $0.02 per share a year ago.
View source ↗ - Newsprnewswire.com·56d ago·Negative
American Public Education Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results ~ Completed Institutional Combination Subsequent to Quarter End, Creating a Single HLC-Accredited Institution ~ Raises Full Year 2026 Revenue, Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA Guidance CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., Aug. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public Education, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: APEI), a company that transforms lives, advances careers and improves communities by providing online and campus-based postsecondary edu
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Earnings
Mon, Nov 9(in 5 weeks)
Consensus estimate $0.26 per share
Typical surprise +71.4% (median, so one quarter with a near-zero estimate can't distort it)
- Mon, Aug 10$0.52 vs $0.36beat
- Mon, May 11$0.94 vs $0.61beat
- Thu, Mar 12$0.67 vs $0.39beat
- Mon, Nov 10$0.30 vs $-0.09beat
- Wed, Aug 6$-0.02 vs $-0.07beat
- Mon, May 12$0.41 vs $0.15beat
Estimates and results for APEI via Financial Modeling Prep. Beating consensus says the company cleared the bar analysts set, not that the business grew.
Insider trading
Open-market buys and sells by APEI officers and directors.
- Bought
- —
- Sold
- $43.1m
0 trades
35 trades
- Fernandes Nuno S.sold
- Kenigsberg Jamessold
- Beckett Thomassold
- Beckett Thomassold
- Beckett Thomassold
- Beckett Thomassold
- Fernandes Nuno S.sold
- 325 Capital Llcsold
65 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.
Congress trades
No disclosed congressional trades in APEI.
Self-reported filings, amounts as brackets. Via Senate/House disclosures.