Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO): Price and Financial Metrics

PRDO POWR Grades

• PRDO scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 99.28% of US stocks.
• PRDO's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 48 weeks.
• PRDO ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 5th percentile.

PRDO Stock Summary

• PRDO's current price/earnings ratio is 5.94, which is higher than just 8.04% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for PERDOCEO EDUCATION Corp is higher than it is for about just 14.33% of US stocks.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, PRDO is more volatile than only 13.79% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to PERDOCEO EDUCATION Corp are BBSI, RGP, SMP, KNSL, and PLUS.
• Visit PRDO's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.perdoceoed.com.

PRDO Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, PRDO's price/sales ratio is 21.43% lower, now standing at 1.1.
• PRDO's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 18 over the prior 243 months.
• PRDO's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 18 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for PRDO.

PRDO Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 13.8%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -33.97%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at 232.74%.

PRDO's revenue has moved up $136,339,000 over the prior 70 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	699.462	153.337	124.393
2021-03-31	699.958	175.896	125.911
2020-12-31	687.314	179.956	124.264
2020-09-30	674.606	125.447	124.729
2020-06-30	660.439	129.035	103.023
2020-03-31	640.845	108.908	74.297

PRDO'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.

• PRDO has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 99.32% of graded US stocks.
• PRDO's asset turnover comes in at 0.951 -- ranking 13th of 51 Personal Services stocks.
• LINC, EDU, and TAL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with PRDO.

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