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Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Education & Training Services, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Phoenix, United States. The company is worth $4.31B and trades at 20.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $1.11B in fiscal 2025, up 7.1% from the year before. Net income was $216.17M. The share price is 25.8% below its 52-week high of $223.04. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $63.08M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. 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.
▲ +123.0% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,027.35▲ +102.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $166.31 | $163.80 | $132.04 | $105.66 | $85.71 | $93.11 | $95.79 | $96.14 | $89.53 | $58.45 | $40.12 | $46.66 | $43.60 | $23.47 | $15.96 | $19.59 | $19.01 | |
| P/E |
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 7.2% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 19.4 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 7.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEFChefs' Warehouse, Inc. | $107.29 | 52.3x | 6.8x | 0.00% | 15.25% | $4.38B |
| CVSACovista Inc. | $131.62 | 16.9x | 3.1x | 0.00% | 18.57% | $4.46B |
| AKO.BAndina Bottling Co Inc | $30.01 | 16.1x | 0.0x | 2.50% | 23.75% | $4.73B |
| AKO.AAndina Bottling Co Inc |
| 19.4x |
| 21.6x |
| 21.2x |
| 19.4x |
| 18.4x |
| 14.5x |
| 17.1x |
| 17.8x |
| 20.3x |
| 21.2x |
| 18.6x |
| 14.4x |
| 19.7x |
| 22.7x |
| 15.3x |
| 14.3x |
| 25.8x |
| 31.7x |
| P/S | 3.4x | 4.1x | 4.6x | 4.1x | 3.6x | 3.4x | 5.2x | 5.9x | 5.5x | 4.4x | 3.2x | 2.4x | 3.2x | 3.4x | 2.1x | 1.7x | 2.3x | 3.3x |
| P/B | 4.5x | 6.0x | 6.0x | 5.5x | 5.1x | 2.9x | 2.8x | 3.2x | 3.8x | 4.4x | 3.6x | 3.1x | 4.6x | 5.8x | 4.5x | 4.3x | 7.0x | 10.1x |
| EPS | $7.71 | $7.73 | $6.80 | $5.73 | $5.92 | $5.45 | $5.37 | $4.73 | $4.22 | $3.15 | $2.78 | $2.37 | $1.92 | $1.53 | $1.12 | $0.76 | $0.60 |
| Profit margin | 19.54% | 19.54% | 21.90% | 21.33% | 20.26% | 29.04% | 30.47% | 33.29% | 27.09% | 20.87% | 17.01% | 16.89% | 16.13% | 14.83% | 13.58% | 11.84% | 9.13% | 10.43% |
| ROE | 25.72% | 28.94% | 28.86% | 28.55% | 28.96% | 24.91% | 16.34% | 17.96% | 18.87% | 20.62% | 19.20% | 21.53% | 23.41% | 25.72% | 29.67% | 30.95% | 27.61% | 31.74% |
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.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-16.9% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $24.29 |
| 13.1x |
| 0.0x |
| 2.80% |
| 23.75% |
| $3.83B |
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