During the last session, American Public Education Inc (NASDAQ:APEI)’s traded shares were 0.36 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.52. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $27.49, reflecting an intraday gain of 6.30% or $1.63. The 52-week high for the APEI share is $26.25, that puts it up 4.51 from that peak though still a striking 57.08% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $11.80. The company’s market capitalization is $495.82M, and the average trade volume was 123.95K shares over the past three months.
American Public Education Inc (APEI) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.40. APEI has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 2 analysts who have looked at this stock. 0 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 2 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.3.
American Public Education Inc (NASDAQ:APEI) trade information
American Public Education Inc (APEI) registered a 6.30% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 6.30% in intraday trading to $27.49, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 10.71%, and it has moved by 14.26% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 81.09%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $15.5, which implies a decrease of -77.35% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $15 and $16 respectively. As a result, APEI is trading at a premium of 41.8% off the target high and 45.43% off the low.
American Public Education Inc (APEI) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 4.72% compared to the previous financial year.
As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 161.73M as predicted by 5 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 5 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 160.08M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 154.43M and 152.9M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 4.73% and then jump by 4.70% in the coming quarter.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings shrunk an estimated -2.10%. While earnings are projected to return 88.70% in 2025.
APEI Dividends
American Public Education Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
The next largest institutional holding, with 1.4 million shares, is of REDWOOD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC’s that is approximately 7.9542% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $24.65 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of American Public Education Inc (APEI) shares are Columbia Funds Series Trust I-Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I and American Century ETF Trust-Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF . Data provided on Jan 31, 2025 indicates that Columbia Funds Series Trust I-Columbia Small Cap Value Fund I owns about 477.96 shares. This amounts to just over 2.65 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $13.14 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 432.93, or about 2.40% of the stock, which is worth about $11.9 million.
