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

121.86 28.81 −19.12%
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) Operating margin

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Grand Canyon Education, Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 27.3%, up 3.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (24.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 24.0% (fiscal 2025) to 34.1% (fiscal 2019) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Education & Training Services industry median of 0.00% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.70%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 24.0% (2.62)
FY2024 26.7% 0.72
FY2023 25.9% (0.12)
FY2022 26.1% (5.41)
FY2021 31.5% (1.40)
FY2020 32.9% (1.18)
FY2019 34.1% 3.52
FY2018 30.5% 1.50
FY2017 29.0% 1.87
FY2016 27.2% 0.13

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 19.3% (2.77)
Jun 2026 22.0% (8.90)
Mar 2026 30.9% (4.16)
Dec 2025 35.1% 28.18
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 24.0% High 34.1%
Ten-year median 27.2%
Current reading's percentile 44

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. 27.3%
LAUR Laureate Education compare 25.8%
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare 24.9%
CVSA Covista Inc. compare 19.8%
LRN Stride, Inc. compare 18.4%
TAL TAL Education Group compare 16.2%
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare 13.4%
EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare 11.8%
XXI Twenty One Capital, Inc. compare 0.00%
Education & Training Services industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.70%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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