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American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)

Consumer Defensive · Education & Training Services · Small-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. American Public Education, Inc. is a strong business by our measures, its shares look fairly priced, and its share price has been doing well.
Value48
Quality67
Price trend70
Overall58
579 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
79%of US stocks we score rank below it

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The business in numbers

Fiscal year to December 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$648.9M
Sales growthchange from the year before+3.9%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells54.2%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business7.4%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit4.9%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales7.1%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business9.7%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value10.7%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value0.32
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares+2.8%

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