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American Public Education Inc (APEI) is a publicly traded education and training services business based in the US which employs around 2,500 staff. American Public Education is listed on the NASDAQ and traded in US dollars. Its current price of $29.31 is 23.0% up on its price a month ago ($23.83).
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Technical analysis
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $29.31
| 1 week (2025-05-16) | 5.24% |
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| 1 month (2025-04-23) | 23.00% |
| 3 months (2025-02-23) | 37.86% |
| 6 months (2024-11-23) | 43.19% |
| 1 year (2024-05-23) | 66.25% |
| 2 years (2023-05-23) | 368.21% |
| 3 years (2022-05-23) | 113.16% |
| 5 years (2020-05-23) |
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Is American Public Education under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the American Public Education P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
American Public Education's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 29x. In other words, American Public Education's shares trade at around 29x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of March 2025 (25.37). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
American Public Education's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.6747. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into American Public Education's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
American Public Education's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $65.7 million (£48.7 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of American Public Education's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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