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American Public Education Inc
American Public Education Inc (APEI) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Education & Training Services, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Charles Town, United States and has 2,360 employees. The company is worth $894.21M and trades at 19.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $648.86M in fiscal 2025, up 3.9% from the year before. Net income was $31.56M. The share price is 20.7% below its 52-week high of $61.59. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $48.9M. In that quarter, 1 of them reduced the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +160.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,968.39▲ +96.8%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $37.80 | $21.57 | $9.65 | $12.29 | $22.25 | $30.48 | $27.39 | $28.46 | $25.05 | $24.55 | $18.61 | $36.87 | $43.47 | $36.12 | $43.28 | $37.24 | $34.36 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 22.9 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 1.7% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PXEDPhoenix Education Partners, Inc. | $23.63 | 10.2x | 2.6x | 3.55% | 25.32% | $851.8M |
| WESTWestrock Coffee Co | $9.69 | — | — | 0.00% | -23.92% | $946.01M |
| SMPLSimply Good Foods Co | $11.08 | — | 0.7x | 0.00% | -12.20% | $979.93M |
| UVVUniversal Corp | $39.67 |
| $37.19 |
| $41.78 |
| P/E | 22.9x | 27.8x | 39.2x | — | — | 22.9x | 24.4x | 44.2x | 18.5x | 19.4x | 16.5x | 9.6x | 15.8x | 18.5x | 15.4x | 19.4x | 23.4x | 27.1x | 43.2x | 65.3x |
| P/S | 1.4x | 1.1x | 0.6x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 1.0x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.3x | — | — | — | — | — | 3.5x | 4.2x | 6.3x | 8.2x |
| P/B | 1.9x | 2.4x | 1.3x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 1.0x | 1.9x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 2.7x | 3.7x | 3.8x | 5.8x | 7.1x | 7.7x | 12.5x | 17.0x |
| EPS | $1.36 | $0.55 | -$2.93 | -$6.08 | $0.97 | $1.25 | $0.62 | $1.54 | $1.29 | $1.49 | $1.93 | $2.33 | $2.35 | $2.35 | $2.23 | $1.59 | $1.27 | $0.86 | $0.64 |
| Profit margin | 6.45% | 4.86% | 2.58% | -7.87% | -18.97% | 4.24% | 5.85% | 3.50% | 8.61% | 7.06% | 7.71% | — | — | — | — | — | 15.07% | 16.07% | 15.11% | 12.66% |
| ROE | 10.71% | 10.71% | 5.30% | -16.20% | -32.88% | 4.27% | 6.13% | 3.37% | 7.98% | 7.30% | 9.13% | 13.67% | 17.45% | 20.30% | 24.73% | 30.45% | 30.70% | 29.19% | 30.27% | 26.11% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-14.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 0.7x |
| 8.37% |
| 2.28% |
| $987.75M |
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