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Consumer Staples / Education & Training ServicesUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

APEI stock hub

American Public Education, Inc. has a live ticker hub with the latest available market, valuation, profitability, growth, ownership, and risk indicators.

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Fair value midpoint
n/a
Fair value pending
Upside to midpoint
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Based on latest report
Confidence
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Data quality and model convergence
Market cap
1B
NASDAQ
Market data

Live price

Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price
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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E23.6
P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1
Trailing P/E41.4
P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8
ROE10.5
P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2
ROIC14.5
P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6
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Indicator catalog

All APEI market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields
254
Groups with data
11
Currency
USD
Showing 254 of 254 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

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MetricValue
Cik
0001201792
Company name
American Public Education, Inc.
Country
United States
Country code
US
Cusip
02913V103
Employees
5,841
Employees Change
-276%
Employees Change Percent
-4.51
Enterprise value
$1B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Financial currency
USD
First seen
2026-05-09
Industry
Education & Training Services
IPO Date
2007-11-09
Isin
US02913V1035
Last refreshed
2026-05-10
Market cap
$1B
Market cap category
Small-Cap
Price
$56.3
Price currency
USD
Rev Per Employee
111,087.49x
Sector
Consumer Staples
Sic
8200
Symbol
APEI
Website
https://www.apei.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

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MetricValue
Earnings Yield
2.44%
EV Earnings
40.52x
EV Sales Forward
1.46x
EV/EBIT
19.04x
EV/EBITDA
14.65x
EV/FCF
22.24x
EV/Sales
1.58x
FCF yield
4.45%
Forward P/E
23.56x
P/B ratio
3.46x
P/E ratio
41.4x
P/S ratio
1.6x
PE Ratio10 Y
26.26x
PEG ratio
1.57x
PS Forward
1.47x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

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MetricValue
EBIT Margin
8.3%
EBITDA Margin
10.79%
FCF margin
7.1%
Gross margin
54.22%
Gross Profit
$351.8M
Gross Profit Growth
6.99%
Gross Profit Growth Q
-3.33%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y
3.44%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y
12%
Net Income
$25.3M
Net Income Growth
95.85%
Net Income Growth Q
-2.75%
Net Income Growth Quarters
9%
Net Income Growth Years
3%
Net Income Growth5 Y
6.1%
Pretax Margin
6.74%
Profit Margin
4.86%
Profit Per Employee
$4,332
Profitable Years
2
ROA
6.17
Roa5y
3.63
ROCE
12.07
ROE
10.54
Roe5y
-4.78
ROIC
14.46
Roic5y
6.79

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

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MetricValue
Cagr10y
9.14%
Cagr15y
1.81%
Cagr1y
121.69%
Cagr3y
119.24%
Cagr5y
12.81%
EPS Growth
147.3
EPS Growth Q
8.85
EPS Growth Quarters
9
EPS Growth Years
3
EPS Growth5 Y
1.7
FCF Growth
65.89%
FCF Growth3 Y
53.18%
FCF Growth5 Y
2.94%
OCF Growth
26.79%
OCF Growth10 Y
0.84%
OCF Growth3 Y
28.48%
OCF Growth5 Y
6.7%
Revenue Growth
3.89x
Revenue Growth Q
-3.52x
Revenue Growth Years
2x
Revenue Growth3 Y
2.29x
Revenue Growth5 Y
15.06x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

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MetricValue
Asset Turnover
$1.19
Assets
$521.4M
Cash
$174.1M
Current Assets
$259.8M
Current Liabilities
$75.1M
Debt
$163M
Debt EBITDA
$1.88
Debt Equity
$0.55
Debt FCF
$3.53
Equity
$294.8M
Interest Coverage
12.73
Liabilities
$226.6M
Long Term Assets
$261.6M
Long Term Liabilities
$151.6M
Net Cash
$11.1M
Net Cash By Market Cap
$1.07
Net Debt EBITDA
$-0.16
Net Debt Equity
$-0.04
Net Debt FCF
$-0.24
Tangible Book Value
$207M
Tangible Book Value Per Share
$11.42
WACC
10.88

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

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MetricValue
Current ratio
3.46
Net Working Capital
$22M
Quick ratio
3.24
Working Capital
$184.8M
Working Capital Turnover
$3.54

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

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MetricValue
Buyback Yield
-2.82%
Dividend Yield
0%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

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MetricValue
10Y total return
139.68%
1Y total return
121.57%
200-day SMA
40.95
3Y total return
954.31%
50-day SMA
55
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA
50over200
5Y total return
82.67%
All Time High
61.59
All Time High Change
-8.59%
All Time High Date
2026-04-21
All Time Low
3.76
All Time Low Change
1,397.34%
All Time Low Date
2023-06-20
ATR
2.04
Beta
1.46
Beta1y
-0.19
Beta2y
0.58
Ch YTD
48.94
High
56.82
High52
61.59
High52 Date
2026-04-21
High52ch
-8.59%
Low
54.8
Low52
25.31
Low52 Date
2025-05-12
Low52ch
122.44%
Ma50ch
2.36%
Price vs 200-day SMA
37.47%
RSI
48.35
RSI Monthly
79.23
RSI Weekly
64.55
Sharpe ratio
1.97x
Sortino ratio
3.57
Total Return
-2.82%
Tr YTD
48.94
Tr15y
30.93%
Tr1m
-1.56%
Tr1w
-3.3%
Tr3m
25.42%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

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MetricValue
Analyst Count
7
Analyst Count Top
2
Analyst Price Target Top
$55.5
Analyst Ratings
Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top
Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate
$0.71
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth
73.17
Earnings Revenue Estimate
173,802,056x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth
5.62x
Operating Income
$53.9M
Operating Income Growth
36.07
Operating Income Growth Q
-20.94
Operating Income Growth3 Y
64.37
Operating Income Growth5 Y
12.49
Operating margin
8.3
Price target
$52.14
Price Target Change
$-7.39
Price Target Change Top
$-1.42

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

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MetricValue
Float
12,686,509%
Float Percent
68.91%
Net Borrowing
-213,000
Shares Insiders
5.33%
Shares Institutions
80.62%
Shares Out
18,411,154
Shares Qo Q
0.23%
Shares Yo Y
2.82%
Short Float
18.89%
Short Ratio
6.29
Short Shares
13.02

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

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MetricValue
Adjusted FCF
$37.7M
Average Volume
243,485.3x
Bv Per Share
16.26
CAPEX
$-15.9M
Ch10y
139.7
Ch15y
30.93
Ch1m
-1.56
Ch1w
-3.3
Ch1y
121.6
Ch3m
25.42
Ch3y
954.3
Ch5y
82.67
Ch6m
81.2
Change
2.91%
Change From Open
2.74
Close
54.71
Days Gap
0.16
Depreciation Amortization
16,148,000
Dollar Volume
11,770,134.3
Earnings Date
2026-05-11
Earnings Time
amc
EBIT
$53.9M
EBITDA
$70M
EPS
$1.36
F Score
7
FCF
$46.1M
FCF EV Yield
4.5x
FCF Per Share
$2.5
Financing CF
-49,208,000
Fiscal Year End
December
Founded
1,991
Goodwill
59,593,000
Graham Number
22.30806
Graham Upside
-60.38
Income Tax
$12.1M
Investing CF
4,801,000
Is Primary Listing
1
Is Spac
No
Last Earnings Date
2026-03-12
Last Report Date
2025-12-31
Last Split Type
Never
Last10k Filing Date
2026-03-12
Lynch Fair Value
$8.29
Lynch Upside
-85.27
Ma150
43.79
Ma150ch
28.58%
Ma20
57.8
Ma20ch
-2.6%
Net CF
17,558,000
Next Earnings Date
2026-05-11
Open
54.8
Optionable
Yes
P FCF Ratio
22.48
P OCF Ratio
16.73
Position In Range
74.26
Ppne
128,284,000
Price Date
2026-05-08
Price EBITDA
$14.81
Ptbv Ratio
5.01
Relative Volume
0.86x
Revenue
648,862,000x
SBC By Revenue
1.29x
Share Based Comp
8,352,000
Tax By Revenue
1.87x
Tax Rate
27.8%
Tr6m
81.2%
Us State
West Virginia
Volume
209,061
Z Score
3.35
Fast facts

Decision checkpoints

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Risk gate
n/a
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Moat score
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Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.
Forward P/E
n/a
Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.
Next action
Research pending
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Income

Does APEI pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

APEI stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

1Y total return
+121.6%
S&P 500 1Y: n/a
3Y total return
+954.3%
S&P 500 3Y: n/a
5Y total return
+82.7%
S&P 500 5Y: n/a
10Y total return
+139.7%
S&P 500 10Y: n/a
Ownership

Who owns APEI?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership
+80.6%
Float: +68.9% of shares outstanding
Insider ownership
+5.3%
Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.
Short interest
+18.9%
6.3 days to cover
Y/Y dilution
+2.8%
Negative means the company is buying back shares.
Technical

APEI momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)
48.3
Neutral momentum band
Price vs 200-day MA
+37.5%
50/200-day relationship not available
Beta (5Y)
1.46
More volatile than the market
Sharpe ratio
1.97
Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.
Peers

APEI vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

TickerNameMarket capP/EP/SROIC5Y rev CAGR1Y total returnRating
COSTCostco Wholesale Corporation447.6B52.5x1.6x37.8%+9.9%+0.7%بيع
KOThe Coca-Cola Company337.4B24.7x6.8x19.6%+8.1%+11.5%شراء قوي
MOAltria Group Inc.113.8B14.2x5.6x66.4%-0.3%+19.7%احتفاظ
Questions

About APEI

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What is the current APEI stock rating?

American Public Education, Inc. is currently shown with the latest rating in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full APEI analysis?

The full report lives at /stocks/APEI/analysis. The bare ticker page is a product hub that summarizes the latest read and sends readers into the relocated analysis tabs without making the analysis surface depend on the hub.

What fair-value range is used for APEI?

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