American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)
Consumer · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 16:33 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
American Public Education, Inc. trades at $43.21, which is 72% below the $74.30 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 51 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 26.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
APEI earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 7 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About American Public Education, Inc.
American Public Education, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides online and campus-based postsecondary education services in the United States. It operates through three segments: American Public University System, Rasmussen University, and Hondros College of Nursing. The company offers 181 degree programs, 110 certificate programs, and four diploma programs in various fields of study, including public service-focused fields, such as nursing, national security, military studies, intelligence, and homeland security, as well as traditional academic fields comprising business, health science, information technology, justice studies, education, and liberal arts; and career learning and leadership training in-person and online to the federal workforce. It also provides nursing-and health sciences-focused postsecondary education; and pre-licensure nursing education services focusing on a diploma in practical nursing and associate degree in nursing, as well as a bachelor of science in nursing. The company was incorporated in 1991 and is headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
APEI passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
11 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$48.90M · 0.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$12.03M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$5.67M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$2.25M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$967.6K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
APEI peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Education & Training Services), then in the same sector.
- EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.
- TAL TAL Education Group
- LAUR Laureate Education, Inc.
- LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
- IEL.AX IDP Education Limited
- SKIL Skillsoft Corp.
- YOUL Youlife Group Inc.
- FEDU Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Inc.
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Common questions
Is American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $74.30, APEI at $43.21 is 72% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own APEI?
11 of the institutions we track reported a position in APEI in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is APEI's P/E ratio?
APEI trades at 26.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its APEI data?
Fundamentals for APEI come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 16:33 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.