CoreCivic, Inc.
CoreCivic, Inc. (CXW) is listed on NYSE and classified in Security & Protection Services, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Brentwood, United States and has 13,651 employees. The company is worth $2.9B and trades at 23.5x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $2.21B in fiscal 2025, up 12.7% from the year before. Net income was $116.5M. The share price is 19.8% below its 52-week high of $36.55. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $17.26M. In that quarter, 3 of them reduced the position. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $400.25K of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
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.
▲ +184.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $3,562.14▲ +256.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $19.11 | $21.74 | $14.53 | $11.56 | $9.97 | $6.55 | $17.38 | $17.83 | $22.50 | $24.46 | $26.49 | $36.34 | $32.07 | $35.47 | $20.37 | $25.06 | $24.55 | $16.36 |
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.
Earnings growing 19.1% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 14.6 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACCVAccelevation Holdings Corp. | $13.01 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $2.9B |
| ARCBArcbest Corp | $130.30 | 188.8x | 2.3x | 0.37% | 1.27% | $2.91B |
| ACHRArcher Aviation Inc. | $3.80 | — | 1.5x | 0.00% | -44.47% | $2.93B |
| MGRCMcgrath Rentcorp | $116.81 |
| P/E | 14.6x | 17.7x | 35.1x | 24.6x | 11.2x | — | 14.6x | 10.9x | 13.3x | 15.0x | 13.1x | 14.1x | 21.9x | 11.9x | 22.7x | 13.2x | 18.0x | 18.6x | 13.6x |
| P/S | 1.2x | 0.8x | 1.2x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.4x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 1.8x | 2.6x | 2.2x | 2.1x | 1.2x | 1.6x | 1.7x | — |
| P/B | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.1x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 1.8x | 2.0x | 2.1x | 2.9x | 2.5x | 2.3x | 1.4x | 1.9x | 2.0x | — |
| EPS | $1.08 | $0.62 | $0.59 | $1.03 | -$0.43 | $0.45 | $1.59 | $1.34 | $1.50 | $1.87 | $1.88 | $1.66 | $2.70 | $1.56 | $1.54 | $1.39 | $1.32 | $1.20 |
| Dividend yield | 8.15% | — | — | — | — | — | 13.44% | 7.59% | 9.65% | 7.47% | 8.34% | 8.15% | 5.61% | 26.82% | 1.69% | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 114.89% | — | — | — | — | — | 195.56% | 83.02% | 128.36% | 112.00% | 109.09% | 114.89% | 122.89% | 318.52% | 38.46% | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 9.48% | 5.27% | 3.51% | 3.56% | 6.63% | -2.79% | 2.84% | 9.54% | 8.67% | 10.08% | 11.89% | 12.64% | 12.09% | 17.82% | 9.12% | 9.66% | 9.45% | 9.51% | 5859.51% |
| ROE | 10.84% | 8.29% | 4.61% | 4.57% | 8.54% | -3.78% | 3.90% | 13.72% | 11.25% | 12.27% | 15.07% | 15.17% | 13.16% | 20.02% | 10.30% | 11.54% | 10.69% | 10.74% | 10.93% |
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 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-48.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 18.4x |
| 2.3x |
| 1.70% |
| 12.69% |
| $2.85B |
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