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

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Fair value pending

Upside to midpoint

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Based on latest report

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Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

4.4B

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Market data

Live price

Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price

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Upcoming earnings date and setup when available.

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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/E15.7

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E20.9

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE29.8

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC43.2

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All LOPE 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

267

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Currency

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Showing 267 of 267 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

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

Metric	Value
Cik	0001434588
Company name	Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	38526M106
Employees	5,830
Employees Change	30%
Employees Change Percent	0.52
Enterprise value	$4.2B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Education & Training Services
IPO Date	2008-11-20
Isin	US38526M1062
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$4.4B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$166
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	193,056.6x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	8200
Symbol	LOPE
Website	https://www.gce.com

Valuation

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

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	5.05%
EV Earnings	19.13x
EV Sales Forward	3.43x
EV/EBIT	13.54x
EV/EBITDA	11.97x
EV/FCF	16.18x
EV/Sales	3.74x
FCF yield	5.97%
Forward P/E	15.74x
P/B ratio	6.3x
P/E ratio	20.9x
P/S ratio	3.87x
PE Ratio10 Y	18.81x
PE Ratio3 Y	20.38x
PE Ratio5 Y	18.27x
PEG ratio	1.05x
PS Forward	3.55x

Profitability

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

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	27.61%
EBITDA Margin	31.23%
FCF margin	23.1%
Gross margin	53.26%
Gross Profit	$599.4M
Gross Profit Growth	8.47%
Gross Profit Growth Q	6.87%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	7.21%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	3.61%
Net Income	$219.9M
Net Income Growth	-4.33%
Net Income Growth Q	5.21%
Net Income Growth Quarters	2%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	5.71%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-3.58%
Pretax Margin	25.49%
Profit Margin	19.54%
Profit Per Employee	$37,719
Profitable Years	20
ROA	19.43
Roa5y	16.07
ROCE	37.46
ROE	29.78
Roe5y	26.09
ROIC	43.19
Roic5y	34.53

Growth

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

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	14.23%
Cagr15y	18.16%
Cagr1y	-14.4%
Cagr3y	14%
Cagr5y	11.94%
EPS Growth	0.08
EPS Growth Q	11.11
EPS Growth Quarters	2
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	9.98
EPS Growth5 Y	7.09
FCF Growth	10.47%
FCF Growth Q	36.46%
FCF Growth3 Y	13.78%
FCF Growth5 Y	4.8%
OCF Growth	7.87%
OCF Growth Q	30.43%
OCF Growth10 Y	4.32%
OCF Growth3 Y	11.25%
OCF Growth5 Y	-1.24%
Revenue Growth	7.43x
Revenue Growth Q	6.72x
Revenue Growth Quarters	15x
Revenue Growth Years	6x
Revenue Growth3 Y	7.06x
Revenue Growth5 Y	5.54x

Financial strength

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

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.13
Assets	$967.9M
Cash	$251.7M
Current Assets	$380M
Current Liabilities	$138.4M
Debt	$104.2M
Debt EBITDA	$0.28
Debt Equity	$0.15
Debt FCF	$0.4
Equity	$696.2M
Liabilities	$271.7M
Long Term Assets	$587.9M
Long Term Liabilities	$133.3M
Net Cash	$147.5M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$3.39
Net Cash Growth	-26%
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.42
Net Debt Equity	$-0.21
Net Debt FCF	$-0.57
Tangible Book Value	$386M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$14.61
WACC	7.47

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.75
Net Working Capital	$4.9M
Quick ratio	2.64
Working Capital	$241.6M
Working Capital Turnover	$4.09

Dividends and buybacks

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

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	4.67%
Dividend Yield	0%

Performance and technicals

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

Metric	Value
10Y total return	278.08%
1Y total return	-14.39%
200-day SMA	179.3
3Y total return	48.18%
50-day SMA	167.2
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	75.76%
All Time High	223
All Time High Change	-25.53%
All Time High Date	2025-10-24
All Time Low	9.49
All Time Low Change	1,650.16%
All Time Low Date	2008-11-20
ATR	5.25
Beta	0.62
Beta1y	0.67
Beta2y	0.79
Ch YTD	-0.13
High	167.6
High52	223
High52 Date	2025-10-24
High52ch	-25.53%
Low	164.2
Low52	149.4
Low52 Date	2026-02-19
Low52ch	11.2%
Ma50ch	-0.66%
Premarket Change Percent	0.86
Premarket Price	$166
Premarket Volume	105
Price vs 200-day SMA	-7.37%
RSI	47.48
RSI Monthly	50.98
RSI Weekly	46.69
Sharpe ratio	-0.47x
Sortino ratio	-0.47
Total Return	4.67%
Tr YTD	-0.13
Tr15y	1,121.25%
Tr1m	-3.04%
Tr1w	1.64%
Tr3m	-2.14%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	2
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$230
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$2.78
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	8.17
Earnings Revenue Estimate	307,580,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	6.32x
Operating Income	$310.8M
Operating Income Growth	10.21
Operating Income Growth Q	8.45
Operating Income Growth3 Y	9.84
Operating Income Growth5 Y	2.04
Operating margin	27.61
Price target	$220
Price Target Change	$32.46
Price Target Change Top	$38.48

Ownership and float

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

Metric	Value
Float	25,574,572%
Float Percent	97.54%
Shares Insiders	2.24%
Shares Institutions	110.52%
Shares Out	26,220,296
Shares Qo Q	-2.68%
Shares Yo Y	-4.67%
Short Float	4.82%
Short Ratio	5.15
Short Shares	4.7

Other indicators

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

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$246.4M
Average Volume	259,935.55x
Bv Per Share	26.36
CAPEX	$-34M
Ch10y	278.1
Ch15y	1,121.3
Ch1m	-3.04
Ch1w	1.64
Ch1y	-14.39
Ch3m	-2.14
Ch3y	48.18
Ch5y	75.76
Ch6m	-0.01
Change	0.98%
Change From Open	0.13
Close	164.5
Days Gap	0.85
Depreciation Amortization	40,794,000
Dollar Volume	46,309,047.7
Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$310.8M
EBITDA	$351.6M
EPS	$7.95
F Score	6
FCF	$260M
FCF EV Yield	6.18x
FCF Per Share	$9.92
Financing CF	-314,807,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,949
Goodwill	160,766,000
Graham Number	68.65865
Graham Upside	-58.66
Income Tax	$67M
Investing CF	-27,625,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-18
Lynch Fair Value	$39.74
Lynch Upside	-76.07
Ma150	172.9
Ma150ch	-3.93%
Ma20	168.3
Ma20ch	-1.34%
Net CF	-48,364,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-05
Open	165.9
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	16.75
P OCF Ratio	14.81
Position In Range	56.1
Post Close	166.1
Postmarket Change Percent	1.98
Postmarket Price	$169
Ppne	273,151,000
Pre Close	164.5
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$12.39
Ptbv Ratio	11.28
Relative Volume	1.07x
Revenue	1,125,520,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.21x
Share Based Comp	13,607,000
Tax By Revenue	5.96x
Tax Rate	23.36%
Tr6m	-0.01%
Us State	Arizona
Volume	278,819
Z Score	17.64

Fast facts

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Risk gate

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Moat score

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Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.

Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Income

Does LOPE pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

LOPE stock returns vs the market

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

Ownership

Who owns LOPE?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+110.5%

Float: +97.5% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+2.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

LOPE momentum and risk profile

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

RSI (14)

47.5

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-7.4%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.62

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-0.47

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

LOPE 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.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	बेचें
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	मज़बूत ख़रीद
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	होल्ड

Questions

About LOPE

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What is the current LOPE stock rating?

Grand Canyon 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 LOPE analysis?

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What fair-value range is used for LOPE?

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