Strategic Education, Inc. (STRA): Price and Financial Metrics

STRA POWR Grades

• STRA scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 76.62% of US stocks.
• STRA's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 48 weeks.
• STRA ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 19th percentile.

STRA Stock Summary

• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 1.31 for Strategic Education Inc; that's greater than it is for just 16.97% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 212.2%, Strategic Education Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 95.8% of about US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for STRA comes in at -16.86% -- higher than that of only 15.06% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Strategic Education Inc are APOG, ESE, FSI, LSTR, and HAIN.
• STRA's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Strategic Education Inc's official web site, go to www.strategiceducation.com.

STRA Valuation Summary

• STRA's price/sales ratio is 1.7; this is 37.04% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 243 months, STRA's price/sales ratio has gone down 2.7.
• STRA's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 23.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for STRA.

STRA Growth Metrics

• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 437.8%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 340.72%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 199.91%.

STRA's revenue has moved up $585,240,000 over the prior 33 months.

The table below shows STRA'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	1,096.029	156.795	46.43
2021-03-31	1,052.687	152.991	60.606
2020-12-31	1,027.653	142.905	86.268
2020-09-30	1,023.931	219.525	108.888
2020-06-30	1,026.652	211.024	114.62
2020-03-31	1,015.931	212.183	104.877

STRA'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.

• STRA has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 46.77% of graded US stocks.
• STRA's asset turnover comes in at 0.483 -- ranking 32nd of 51 Personal Services stocks.
• CHGG, GPX, and LOPE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with STRA.

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