Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE): Price and Financial Metrics

LOPE POWR Grades

• LOPE scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 92.61% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LOPE is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• LOPE's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 29.98% of US stocks).

LOPE Stock Summary

• LOPE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of only 12.43% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -64.38%, Grand Canyon Education Inc's debt growth rate surpasses only 4.7% of about US stocks.
• Grand Canyon Education Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 26.43%, greater than the shareholder yield of 93.72% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LOPE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are HELE, EIG, FIX, WDFC, and LWAY.
• Visit LOPE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.gce.com.

LOPE Valuation Summary

• LOPE's price/earnings ratio is 15.5; this is 31.57% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 156 months, LOPE's price/earnings ratio has gone down 100.7.
• Over the past 156 months, LOPE's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LOPE.

LOPE Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -14.28%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 19.07%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -22.58%.

Over the past 34 months, LOPE's revenue has gone up $129,457,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	896.564	313.119	260.344
2021-09-30	883.477	337.635	261.986
2021-06-30	875.094	298.1	266.374
2021-03-31	859.375	312.931	263.923
2020-12-31	844.096	308.823	257.196
2020-09-30	819.054	291.293	247.11

LOPE'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.

• LOPE has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 80.61% of graded US stocks.
• LOPE's asset turnover comes in at 0.474 -- ranking 33rd of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• SP, WW, and CHGG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LOPE.

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