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Strategic Education Inc.
STRA Consumer Defensive Education & Training Services
Strategic Education Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.3 billion, up 3.96% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 4.91%, EPS grew 23.4% and free cash flow fell 26.2%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for three; insiders bought in the last twelve months.
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| Group | Line | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Trend | 2026e | 2027e | 2028e |
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| Price, $ | Low | 42.39 | 71.31 | 80.75 | 106.20 | 81.83 | 52.67 | 48.01 | 64.53 | 85.11 | 72.25 |
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| High | 83.92 | 100.72 | 154.89 | 189.79 | 187.98 | 96.73 | 82.42 | 98.22 | 123.62 | 104.51 | |||||
| People | |||||||||||||||
| People | Employees | 1,542 | 1,389 | 3,017 | 3,076 | 3,679 | 3,742 | 3,907 | 3,774 | 6,488 | 6,134 | ||||
| Revenue/emp, $m | 0.29 | 0.33 | 0.21 | 0.32 | 0.28 | 0.30 | 0.27 | 0.30 | 0.19 | 0.21 | |||||
| Income, $m | |||||||||||||||
| Income, $m | Revenue | 441 | 455 | 634 | 997 | 1,028 | 1,132 | 1,065 | 1,133 | 1,220 | 1,268 | ||||
| Gross margin, % | 45.11 | 40.87 | 41.41 | 46.79 | 48.17 | 46.25 | 43.94 | 44.93 | 46.68 | 48.97 | |||||
| EBT | 57 | 53 | (19) | 124 | 114 | 77 | 70 | 101 | 161 | 177 | |||||
| EBT margin, % | 12.99 | 11.57 | (3.02) | 12.41 | 11.09 | 6.77 | 6.53 | 8.89 | 13.23 | 13.99 | |||||
| Net income | 35 | 21 | (16) | 81 | 86 | 55 | 47 | 70 | 113 | 127 | |||||
| Depreciation | 16 | 19 | 75 | 105 | 110 | 104 | 64 | 58 | 45 | 48 | |||||
| Per share, $ | |||||||||||||||
| Per share, $ | Revenue | 41.57 | 42.60 | 41.75 | 45.90 | 45.41 | 47.24 | 45.00 | 48.41 | 52.12 | 55.75 | ||||
| Earnings | 3.28 | 1.93 | (1.03) | 3.73 | 3.81 | 2.30 | 1.97 | 2.98 | 4.81 | 5.57 | |||||
| Cash flow | 4.20 | 5.26 | 3.09 | 9.30 | 6.31 | 7.54 | 5.32 | 5.00 | 7.23 | 8.71 | |||||
| Capex | (1.24) | (1.69) | (1.81) | (1.78) | (2.07) | (1.72) | (1.55) | (1.33) | (1.73) | (1.85) | |||||
| Free cash flow | 2.96 | 3.57 | 1.27 | 7.52 | 4.25 | 5.82 | 3.78 | 3.68 | 5.50 | 6.86 | |||||
| Book value | 17.75 | 19.59 | 93.83 | 67.33 | 77.25 | 71.55 | 69.08 | 70.61 | 71.03 | 72.37 | |||||
| Shares, m | 11 | 11 | 15 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 23 | |||||
| Valuation, × | |||||||||||||||
| Valuation, × | P/E | 25.05 | 47.25 | 0.00 | 42.60 | 24.32 | 25.15 | 40.27 | 30.94 | 19.42 | 14.37 | ||||
| P/S | 1.97 | 2.14 | 2.72 | 3.46 | 2.10 | 1.22 | 1.76 | 1.90 | 1.79 | 1.44 | |||||
| P/B | 4.61 | 4.65 | 1.21 | 2.36 | 1.23 | 0.81 | 1.15 | 1.31 | 1.32 | 1.11 | |||||
| EV/Sales | 1.94 | 2.05 | 2.35 | 3.09 | 2.05 | 1.11 | 1.66 | 1.78 | 1.70 | 1.38 | |||||
| EV/FCF | 27.28 | 24.50 | 77.10 | 18.87 | 21.96 | 9.02 | 19.72 | 23.44 | 16.08 | 11.17 | |||||
| Cash, $m | |||||||||||||||
| Cash, $m | Operating cash flow | 45 | 56 | 47 | 202 | 143 | 181 | 126 | 117 | 169 | 198 | ||||
| Capex | (13) | (18) | (28) | (39) | (47) | (41) | (37) | (31) | (41) | (42) | |||||
| Free cash flow | 31 | 38 | 19 | 163 | 96 | 139 | 89 | 86 | 129 | 156 | |||||
| Balance, $m | |||||||||||||||
| Balance, $m | Working capital | 101 | 121 | 295 | 367 | 86 | 172 | 119 | 119 | 88 | 60 | ||||
| Total debt | — | — | — | 81 | 142 | 142 | 101 | 61 | 61 | — | |||||
| Net debt | (129) | (156) | (349) | (374) | (53) | (134) | (121) | (147) | (123) | (148) | |||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 188 | 209 | 1,425 | 1,463 | 1,748 | 1,714 | 1,636 | 1,653 | 1,662 | 1,646 | |||||
| Returns, % | |||||||||||||||
| Returns, % | ROA | 12.72 | 6.65 | (1.58) | 4.70 | 4.22 | 2.39 | 2.09 | 3.26 | 5.40 | 6.19 | ||||
| ROIC | 60.75 | 61.26 | (1.32) | 6.34 | 4.03 | 2.92 | 2.92 | 3.96 | 6.32 | 7.27 | |||||
| ROE | 21.01 | 10.37 | (1.92) | 5.62 | 5.37 | 3.18 | 2.79 | 4.24 | 6.80 | 7.65 | |||||
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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026
Charts ten years each
Strategic Education Inc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | Compare |
| 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% | |
| 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 |
| APEI American Public Education, Inc. | $899.2M | 19.6× | 20.9× | +5.51% (above 0%: growing) | n/m | −77.96% (below 0%: shrinking) | 55.37% | 7.88% | Compare |
| PXED Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. | $864.4M | 10.2× | 10.5× | +0.04% (above 0%: growing) | −29.07% (below 0%: shrinking) | +31.81% (above 0%: growing) | 100.00% | 19.07% | Compare |
| Median of peers | $1.3B | 12.0× | 13.4× | +4.08% | +25.82% | −0.09% | 59.83% | 17.86% |
Strategic Education Inc. (STRA) key facts
- Strength: Strategic Education Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.3 billion, up 3.96% from fiscal 2024.
- Strength: Net income was $126.6 million, or $5.57 per share (basic), a net margin of 9.98%.
- Strategic Education Inc. (STRA) is an Education & Training Services company in the Consumer Defensive sector, listed on Nasdaq.
- As of October 16, 2026, STRA traded at $81.33, a market capitalization of $1.8 billion.
- At that price the stock trades at 13.2× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 1.4× sales; its P/E is higher than 6% of its own readings over the past ten years.
- Strategic Education Inc. pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share, a yield of 2.95%, with a payout ratio of 40.0%.
- Return on equity was 7.65% and debt-to-equity 0.00.
- Its Piotroski F-score is 8 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 3.91 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.