American Public Education (APEI) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Public Education in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" APEI shares.
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3 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for American Public Education's shares. Their APEI share price targets range from $15.00 to $17.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $15.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.4% from the stock's current price.
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American Public Education's stock was trading at $9.65 at the beginning of the year. Since then, APEI shares have increased by 33.7% and is now trading at $12.90.
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American Public Education saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 427,900 shares, an increase of 9.8% from the March 15th total of 389,600 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 172,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Approximately 2.6% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 14th 2024.
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American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEI) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March, 5th. The company reported $0.64 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.14 by $0.50. The firm had revenue of $152.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $150.54 million. American Public Education had a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.26% and a negative net margin of 7.87%.

American Public Education issued an update on its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 6th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of -0.250--0.170 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.040. The company issued revenue guidance of $151.0 million-$153.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $150.6 million.

10 employees have rated American Public Education Chief Executive Officer Angela Selden on Glassdoor.com. Angela Selden has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Angela Selden in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 90.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at American Public Education to a friend.

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American Public Education's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Cannon Global Investment Management LLC (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Barbara Kurshan, Craig S Macgibbon, Granetta B Blevins, Harry T Wilkins, Katherine H Zatz, Thomas Beckett and Timothy J Landon.
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