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
18.65
$8.26
0.58
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Price and volume
Market cap
$4B
Beta
0.58
52-week high
$213.14
52-week low
$134.27
Average daily volume
287K
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)
18.645
Price to revenue (TTM)
3.643
Price to book
5.96
Price to tangible book (TTM)
11.04
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
17.156
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
5.83%
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
University partner enrolments grew 7.6% year on year in the second quarter, with online enrolments up 7.8% and off-campus site enrolments up 18.5% excluding closed or teaching-out sites. Service revenue rose 6.7%, showing that student growth is feeding through to sales. (Grand Canyon Education)
Operating income rose 12.3% in the second quarter, faster than revenue growth of 6.7%, and operating margin widened to 22.0% from 20.9%. That points to improving operating leverage despite investment in partner growth. (Grand Canyon Education)
GCE renewed its Grand Canyon University service agreement through 2041 and removed the university’s early termination right. The longer commitment improves visibility over its largest partnership and future service revenue. (Simply Wall St)
Revenue per student edged down, and the revised GCU agreement is expected to reduce annual service revenue by about $20 million as ancillary revenue is excluded from the fee base. Management expects only a small operating-income effect, but the change may limit reported revenue growth. (Grand Canyon Education, The Motley Fool)
New online starts grew only at a low-single-digit pace in the second quarter, while 14 hybrid sites were already at or near capacity. Slower new-student growth and limited room at existing sites could make it harder to sustain recent enrolment gains. (The Motley Fool)
The CFO was placed on paid administrative leave amid a government investigation into a non-employee’s trades in GCE shares. The company says it is not the investigation’s focus, but the matter creates governance and leadership uncertainty. (StockTitan)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 27 Oct 2026.
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Funds containing LOPE
AllUSDEURGBP
Fund name | Fund size | $LOPE weighting |
|---|---|---|
SPDR S&P 400 US Mid Cap$SPY4 | $6.4B | 0.12% |
SPDR S&P 400 US Mid Cap£SPX4 | $6.4B | 0.12% |
SPDR MSCI USA Small Cap Value Weighted$USSC | $1.1B | 0.04% |
iShares MSCI World Small Cap€IUSN | $9B | 0.04% |
iShares MSCI World Small Cap$WSML | $9B | 0.04% |
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