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Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE) Company Bio

Grand Canyon Education provides postsecondary education services in the United States and Canada, including graduate and undergraduate degree programs in the fields of education, healthcare, business, teaching, nursing, professional, and liberal arts. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

LOPE Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

Below please find a table outlining a discounted cash flow forecast for LOPE, in which we model out valuation assuming a variety of terminal growth rates. To summarize, we found that Grand Canyon Education Inc ranked in the 96th percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Moreover, under all the scenarios we modelled, the output consistently forecasted positive returns. As for the metrics that stood out in our discounted cash flow analysis of Grand Canyon Education Inc, consider:

• In the past 3.25 years, Grand Canyon Education Inc has a compound free cash flow growth rate of 1.52%; that's better than 94.06% of cash flow producing equities in the Consumer Defensive sector, where it is classified.
• The business' balance sheet suggests that 4% of the company's capital is sourced from debt; this is greater than merely 13.82% of the free cash flow producing stocks we're observing.
• LOPE's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 2%; for context, that number is higher than 44.85% of tickers in our DCF set.

For other companies in the Consumer Defensive that have a similar discounted cashflow valuation profile (and ensuing price forecasts) as LOPE, try SIAF, NTCO, HFFG, CORE, and CRESY.