Perdoceo Education Corporation

PRDO Consumer Defensive Education & Training Services

Perdoceo Education Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $846.1 million, up 24.2% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 1.80%, EPS grew 22.2%, free cash flow fell 3.87% and total debt fell 64.3%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for three consecutive years.

33.73 0.14 −0.41%
Market cap
$2.1B
P/E
12.0×
Fwd P/E
11.7×
Dividend yield
1.84%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
6.68
Beneish M
−2.62
Dividend safety
82/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 16.22
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — 1 — 1 5 1 3 1 — 1 1 —
Insider Ownership 2.75%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 2,120.00
Revenue 858.61
Net Income 177.12
Free Cash Flow 217.98
Net Debt (731.65)
Current Ratio 4.69 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.00 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 12.00
Fwd P/E 11.70
P/S ratio 2.46
P/B ratio 2.05
Past 5Y EPS Growth 6.82%
This Y EPS Growth 21.49% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y EPS Growth 5.78%
Next Y revenue growth 0.99%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 15.00% (at or above 15%: strong)

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 68.85%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 88.98%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 63.99%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 80.32%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 52.78%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.23
Annual Dividend Rate 0.62
Annual Dividend Yield 1.84%
total individual payouts
2026 0.47
0.15
0.15
0.17
2025 0.56
0.13
0.13
0.15
0.15
2024 0.48
0.11
0.11
0.13
0.13
2023 0.22
0.11
0.11
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2019 Powerpack
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 604 592 643 735
Receivables 34 28 32 47
Inventory 5 3 4 3
Other 0 0 0 0
655 640 697 803
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 11 13 14 17
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
111 132 138 171

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (0.01%) 4.24% 6.77%
Cash Flow 0.00% 4.59% 14.98%
Earnings 11.91% 5.17% 18.60%
Book Value 11.16% 11.83% 10.24%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 222 213 — — —
’25 213 210 212 212 846
’24 168 167 170 176 681
’23 196 187 180 148 710
’22 183 168 168 176 695
’21 184 176 174 160 693
’20 171 176 169 171 687
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 69 75 — — —
’25 65 79 41 40 225
’24 54 39 51 18 162
’23 5 62 33 13 112
’22 22 33 53 41 148
’21 45 38 61 47 191
’20 45 61 32 42 180
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 68 73 — — —
’25 63 76 39 38 217
’24 53 38 50 16 157
’23 3 60 31 12 106
’22 17 31 51 37 136
’21 44 36 58 43 181
’20 44 58 28 40 170
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.85 0.75 — — —
’25 0.65 0.62 0.60 0.54 2.42
’24 0.59 0.57 0.57 0.47 2.19
’23 0.50 0.80 0.62 0.26 2.18
’22 0.46 0.37 0.32 0.23 1.39
’21 0.43 0.37 0.39 0.35 1.55
’20 0.41 0.40 0.56 0.38 1.74
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 2.23 7.62 11.01 11.19 7.11 9.65 9.65 11.50 16.12 23.87

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 10.53 13.92 19.07 22.50 19.85 14.05 14.82 19.62 29.47 38.02
People
People Employees 5,149 4,462 4,244 4,000 4,700 4,300 4,500 4,350 5,690 6,000
Revenue/emp, $m 0.14 0.13 0.14 0.16 0.15 0.16 0.15 0.16 0.12 0.14
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 704 596 581 628 687 693 695 710 681 846
Gross margin, % 66.62 75.97 81.09 83.76 83.74 84.31 83.21 81.64 82.26 76.65
EBT (31) 36 74 93 147 149 134 192 201 217
EBT margin, % (4.45) 6.08 12.79 14.82 21.35 21.51 19.31 27.06 29.57 25.63
Net income (19) (32) 55 70 124 110 96 148 148 160
Depreciation 23 14 9 9 15 17 20 17 15 42
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 10.30 8.65 8.35 8.96 9.90 9.90 10.23 10.68 10.38 13.06
Earnings (0.27) (0.46) 0.79 1.00 1.79 1.57 1.41 2.22 2.25 2.47
Cash flow 0.09 (0.32) 0.82 1.04 2.59 2.73 2.18 1.69 2.46 3.48
Capex (0.06) (0.09) (0.10) (0.07) (0.14) (0.15) (0.19) (0.10) (0.07) (0.13)
Free cash flow 0.03 (0.41) 0.72 0.97 2.45 2.58 2.00 1.59 2.39 3.34
Book value 4.70 4.30 5.10 6.15 8.01 9.28 10.68 12.66 14.62 15.01
Shares, m 68 69 70 70 69 70 68 66 66 65
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 0.00 14.46 18.58 7.02 7.49 10.15 8.11 11.76 11.83
P/S 0.95 1.45 1.37 2.05 1.28 1.19 1.41 1.68 2.55 2.25
P/B 2.08 2.91 2.24 2.99 1.58 1.27 1.35 1.42 1.81 1.95
EV/Sales 0.66 1.14 0.97 1.67 0.74 0.52 0.70 0.86 1.76 1.49
EV/FCF 197.31 (24.27) 11.26 15.42 3.00 1.99 3.60 5.78 7.62 5.83
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 6 (22) 57 73 180 191 148 112 162 225
Capex (4) (6) (7) (5) (10) (10) (13) (6) (5) (9)
Free cash flow 2 (28) 50 68 170 181 136 106 157 217
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 79 98 172 257 363 414 412 544 508 559
Total debt — — — 52 43 36 27 — 50 44
Net debt (207) (180) (229) (242) (367) (464) (491) (604) (541) (600)
Shareholders’ equity 322 296 355 431 556 650 726 841 960 972
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (3.20) (6.34) 11.87 12.94 18.82 13.98 10.62 15.03 13.15 12.87
ROIC (17.68) 18.38 35.35 28.51 47.28 50.00 34.49 39.63 26.04 32.87
ROE (5.68) (10.33) 16.94 17.80 25.17 18.18 13.93 18.84 16.39 16.55
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Perdoceo Education Corporation vs peers in Education & Training Services (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. $4.2B 19.4× 16.3× +6.69% (above 0%: growing) +18.24% (above 0%: growing) −15.15% (below 0%: shrinking) 49.36% 22.02% Compare
TAL TAL Education Group $4.2B 7.3× 12.0× +31.89% (above 0%: growing) +1,380.00% (above 0%: growing) +37.51% (above 0%: growing) 57.78% 18.09% Compare
LRN Stride, Inc. $3.5B 10.4× 13.4× −2.69% (below 0%: shrinking) +62.18% (above 0%: growing) +3.70% (above 0%: growing) 34.16% 16.64% Compare
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. $2.7B 27.7× 15.6× +2.65% (above 0%: growing) +9,900.00% (above 0%: growing) +57.50% (above 0%: growing) 79.87% 20.78% Compare
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation $2.1B 12.0× 11.7× +1.80% (above 0%: growing) +22.22% (above 0%: growing) −3.87% (below 0%: shrinking) 76.15% 25.72%
STRA Strategic Education Inc. $1.8B 13.2× 10.2× +4.91% (above 0%: growing) +23.40% (above 0%: growing) −26.16% (below 0%: shrinking) 47.26% 14.97% Compare
COUR Coursera, Inc. $1.4B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +59.59% (above 0%: growing) n/m −190.46% (below 0%: shrinking) 58.07% (28.37%) Compare
AFYA Afya Limited $1.3B 8.8× 7.7× +18.55% (above 0%: growing) +29.41% (above 0%: growing) +59.54% (above 0%: growing) 61.59% 30.64% Compare
UTI Universal Technical Institute Inc $1.1B 32.8× 56.3× +7.15% (above 0%: growing) −80.00% (below 0%: shrinking) −408.92% (below 0%: shrinking) 45.94% 1.48% Compare
Median of peers $2.3B 13.2× 13.4× +6.92% +29.41% −5.72% 53.57% 17.37%

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Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) key facts

  • Strength: Perdoceo Education Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $846.1 million, up 24.2% from fiscal 2024.
  • Strength: Net income was $159.9 million, or $2.47 per share (basic), a net margin of 18.9%.
  • Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) is an Education & Training Services company in the Consumer Defensive sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, PRDO traded at $33.73, a market capitalization of $2.1 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 12.0× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 2.5× sales; its P/E is higher than 69% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Perdoceo Education Corporation pays an annual dividend of $0.62 per share, a yield of 1.84%, with a payout ratio of 22.6%.
  • Return on equity was 16.6% and debt-to-equity 0.00.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 7 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 6.68 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

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