APEIAmerican Public Education, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.
Priced for a decline (~−1% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 4% a year, expectations look modest.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 19.7 vs a 24.3 median over 33 quarters (−19% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What APEI's price assumes
American Public Education, Inc. trades at 19.7× earnings against 18.1× for the median Education & Training Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Education & Training Services median 18.1 · 1.09× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.58
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 8.0%
Free cash flow yield · Education & Training Services median 9.7%
- Growth the price implies
- −0.59%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −0.59% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown +3.7% a year over the last three.
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- Price / bookas of 2026-Q1
- 3.41
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q1
- 15.9
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q1
- 1.49
- Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
- 20.2
- Education & Training Services median P/E18 names
- 18.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $70M
- Market capitalisation
- $877M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +3.7%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $53.19 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $59.05 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $70.55 |
| 52-week range | $30.67 – $60.86 |
| Today | $47.82 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #13 of 15 by RyuScore