Grand Canyon Education, Inc.

LOPE Consumer Defensive Education & Training Services

Grand Canyon Education, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.1 billion, up 7.07% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+2.38%
EPS
+183.1%
Free cash flow
+38.2%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

116.45 5.80 −4.74%
Market cap
$3.2B
P/E
13.0×
Fwd P/E
16.3×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
17.47
Beneish M
−2.73
Dividend safety
n/a

Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE) Free cash flow margin

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Grand Canyon Education, Inc.'s free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 23.1%, up 1.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (21.6%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −4.27% (fiscal 2015) to 36.5% (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 64% of that period. That is above the Education & Training Services industry median of 0.00% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.51%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 21.6% (2.88)
FY2024 24.5% 3.74
FY2023 20.7% 0.36
FY2022 20.4% (11.34)
FY2021 31.7% (1.40)
FY2020 33.1% (3.37)
FY2019 36.5% 24.14
FY2018 12.3% (6.24)
FY2017 18.6% 18.71
FY2016 −0.14% 4.13

Against its own ten years

Low −4.27% High 36.5%
Ten-year median 20.7%
Current reading's percentile 64

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare 29.7%
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. 23.1%
TAL TAL Education Group compare 18.4%
CVSA Covista Inc. compare 17.7%
EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare 17.1%
LRN Stride, Inc. compare 16.7%
LAUR Laureate Education compare 15.2%
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare 4.00%
XXI Twenty One Capital, Inc. compare 0.00%
Education & Training Services industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.51%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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