LOPEGrand Canyon Education, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for ~2% a year FCF growth. The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 7% a year, expectations look modest.
In its normal range: P/E 19.4 vs a 18.9 median over 41 quarters (+3% vs median).
Sector median 16.6× across 78 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What LOPE's price assumes
Grand Canyon Education, Inc. trades at 19.4× 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 · 1.07× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 3.43
Price / sales · today's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- Free cash flow yield
- 6.4%
Free cash flow yield · Education & Training Services median 9.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +2.4%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +2.4% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +7.7% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 5.08
- EV / EBITtoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 13.1
- EV / salestoday's price, fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025
- 3.16
- Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
- 20.2
- Education & Training Services median P/E18 names
- 18.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $243M
- Market capitalisation
- $3.79B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +7.2%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +7.7%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $138.96 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $155.92 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $178.20 |
| 52-week range | $136.57 – $220.55 |
| Today | $159.88 |
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 #2 of 15 by RyuScore