American Public Education, Inc. (APEI): Price and Financial Metrics

APEI POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where APEI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 91.68% of US stocks.
• APEI's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• APEI ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 5th percentile.

APEI Stock Summary

• APEI's price/sales ratio is 0.15; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 4.38% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, APEI is more volatile than 92.42% of stocks we're observing.
• AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 86.51%, greater than the shareholder yield of 97.82% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC are SPFI, SFT, CBNK, NX, and LSTR.
• APEI's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC's official web site, go to www.apei.com.

APEI Valuation Summary

• APEI's price/sales ratio is 0.2; this is 77.78% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 193 months, APEI's price/sales ratio has gone down 11.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for APEI.

APEI Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -46.72%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 68.73%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -33.4%.

Over the past 33 months, APEI's revenue has gone up $321,620,000.

The table below shows APEI's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	607.89	67.931	-99.077
2022-06-30	556.603	52.758	-95.582
2022-03-31	485.009	30.294	14.978
2021-12-31	418.803	16.265	17.752
2021-09-30	350.712	0.656	15.442
2021-06-30	331.597	21.963	18.351

APEI's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• APEI has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 92.53% of graded US stocks.
• APEI's asset turnover comes in at 0.793 -- ranking 19th of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• CHGG, VERB, and LOPE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with APEI.

The table below shows APEI's key quality metrics over time.