Grand Canyon Education/$LOPE
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About Grand Canyon Education
Grand Canyon Education Inc is a publicly traded education services company dedicated to serving colleges and universities. GCE's university partner is Grand Canyon University, an Arizona non-profit corporation that operates a comprehensive regionally accredited university that offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, emphases, and certificates across nine colleges, both online and on the ground at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona, and at four off-site classroom andlaboratory sites. The Company generates all of its revenue through service agreements with its university partners.
- Ticker
- $LOPE
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 4,961
- Headquarters
- Phoenix, United States
- Website
- www.gce.com
LOPE Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$4B
18.87
$8.26
0.58
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Price and volume
Market cap
$4B
Beta
0.58
52-week high
$223.04
52-week low
$134.27
Average daily volume
334K
Financial strength
Current ratio
2.818
Quick ratio
2.692
Long term debt to equity
0.133
Total debt to equity
0.156
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
358.792
Gross margin (TTM)
53.27%
Net profit margin (TTM)
19.63%
Operating margin (TTM)
27.77%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
23.42%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$230,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
20.43%
Return on equity (TTM)
30.98%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
18.865
Price to revenue (TTM)
3.686
Price to book
6.03
Price to tangible book (TTM)
11.17
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
17.359
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.76%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
8.974
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
6.97%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
-0.02%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
7.16%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
3.27%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
10.27%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
10.55%
What the Analysts think about LOPE
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Grand Canyon Education stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Grand Canyon Education stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Q2 service revenue rose 6.7% as partner enrolments grew 7.6%; GCU online enrolments were up 7.8%, while comparable off-campus site enrolments rose 18.5%. That shows demand is still expanding across both online and hybrid delivery. (PR Newswire)
Q2 operating income rose to $58.2 million from $51.8 million a year earlier, and the operating margin widened to 22% from 20.9%. Profit growth outpaced revenue growth, pointing to improved operating leverage. (PR Newswire)
GCU is adding construction and industrial technology programmes, while planning a law school for 2027. If these initiatives attract students as management expects, they could add new sources of campus growth beyond the established online business. (The Motley Fool)
Revenue per student edged down in Q2. GCE attributed this to a lower revenue share under a partner contract change and a mix shift towards online students, whose net tuition is lower than that of ground students. (PR Newswire)
GCE remains highly reliant on GCU, which generated about 90% of service revenue in Q1. Proposed changes to their services agreement would reduce expected service revenue, leaving GCE exposed to the terms of a relationship with its dominant partner. (StockTitan, SEC)
GCE is defending legal claims alleging that its marketing made misleading statements about the time, cost or accreditation of some GCU doctoral programmes. The company says the outcomes are uncertain and it cannot yet estimate potential losses. (StockTitan)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 30 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing LOPE
AllUSDGBPEUR
Fund name | Fund size | $LOPE weighting |
|---|---|---|
SPDR S&P 400 US Mid Cap$SPY4 | $6.3B | 0.12% |
SPDR S&P 400 US Mid Cap£SPX4 | £4.7B | 0.12% |
iShares MSCI World Small Cap$WSML | $9B | 0.04% |
iShares MSCI World Small Cap€IUSN | €7.8B | 0.04% |
iShares MSCI World Small Cap£WLDS | £6.7B | 0.04% |
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