PRDOPerdoceo Education Corporation
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -64% · now 11% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can PRDO take a bad year?
The deepest fall in PRDO's price history on file is −64%; it is 11% below its high today.
Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · safe zone, the balance sheet is not what threatens this one
- Interest cover
- 34.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −64%
Worst drawdown on file · −11% today
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $734M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $249M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $211M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −64%
- Below its 52-week high
- 11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #4 of 15 by RyuScore