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PERDOCEO EDUCATION Corp
PERDOCEO EDUCATION Corp (PRDO) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Education & Training Services, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Schaumburg, United States and has 6,000 employees. The company is worth $2.12B and trades at 12.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $846.1M in fiscal 2025, up 24.2% from the year before. Net income was $159.91M. The share price is 12.2% below its 52-week high of $38.50. It pays a dividend yielding 2.01%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $105.59M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 3 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.
▲ +242.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $3,399.81▲ +240.0%
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 | $29.33 | $26.47 | $17.56 | $13.90 | $11.76 | $12.63 | $18.39 | $11.42 | $12.08 | $10.09 | $3.63 | $6.96 | $5.70 | $3.51 | $7.97 | $20.73 | $23.31 | $17.94 |
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 6.8% a year plus a 2.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 12.1 across this company’s own years on record.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTZUtz Brands, Inc. | $14.29 | — | 1.8x | 1.75% | -3.11% | $2.06B |
| DAOYoudao, Inc. | $18.16 | 95.6x | — | 0.00% | — | $2.19B |
| ANDEAndersons, Inc. | $65.10 | 12.7x | 1.7x | 1.23% | 12.16% | $2.21B |
| SAMBoston Beer Co Inc | $195.72 |
| P/E | 12.1x | 12.1x | 12.1x | 8.1x | 10.0x | 7.6x | 7.3x | 19.0x | 14.8x | — | — | 4.8x | — | — | — | 31.9x | 10.6x | 24.8x | 26.8x |
| P/S | 1.1x | 2.2x | 2.6x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 2.1x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.0x | 0.3x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.8x | 1.1x | 1.0x |
| P/B | 1.7x | 1.9x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.2x | 1.6x | 3.0x | 2.2x | 2.8x | 2.2x | 0.7x | 1.7x | 0.8x | 0.4x | 0.7x | 1.7x | 2.2x | 1.7x |
| EPS | $2.42 | $2.19 | $2.18 | $1.39 | $1.55 | $1.74 | $0.97 | $0.77 | -$0.46 | -$0.27 | $0.76 | -$2.65 | -$2.46 | -$2.15 | $0.25 | $1.95 | $0.94 | $0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 1.81% | 1.91% | 1.81% | 1.25% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 21.92% | 23.14% | 21.92% | 10.09% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 6.87% | 18.90% | 21.66% | 20.80% | 13.79% | 15.82% | 18.08% | 11.15% | 9.49% | -5.35% | -2.66% | 6.12% | -19.49% | -16.15% | -14.00% | 1.09% | 7.62% | 4.51% | 3.64% |
| ROE | 14.29% | 16.45% | 15.38% | 17.55% | 13.21% | 16.86% | 22.35% | 16.23% | 15.54% | -10.77% | -5.82% | 15.37% | -63.19% | -36.07% | -23.34% | 2.30% | 16.88% | 8.81% | 6.35% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 7.6% required return, from the stock’s beta.
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.
-37.6% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 2.8x |
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| -8.61% |
| $2.01B |
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