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AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC APEI

Services-Educational Services · CIK 0001201792 · Fiscal year ends 1231

AnnualQuarterlyTTM
Revenue
$171.73M
Fiscal year ended 2026-06-30
Operating income
$13.53M
Fiscal year ended 2026-06-30
Free cash flow
$7.40M
Fiscal year ended 2026-06-30

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$484.00MMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$26.33Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income15.3×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

15.3× earnings today, against a median of 17.7× across 8 years on record. Below its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$484.00M15.3×
2024-06-30$279.00M17.3×
2021-06-30$525.00M29.6×
2020-06-30$424.00M22.5×
2019-06-28$305.00M30.5×
2018-06-30$465.00M18.1×
2017-06-30$260.90M12.4×
2016-06-30$361.70M15.0×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Services-Educational Services filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
FCF margin7.1%69th
Current ratio3.46x68th
Effective tax rate27.8%67th
Gross margin54.2%38th
Long-term debt / equity0.32x60th
Operating margin7.4%60th
SBC / revenue1.3%44th
Net margin4.9%45th
CapEx / revenue2.4%46th
Revenue YoY growth3.9%48th

AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC (APEI) reported revenue of $171.73M and net income of $9.77M for the fiscal year ended 2026-06-30. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Services-Educational Services.

Income

AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-302024-03-31
Revenue$171.73M$174.74M$158.33M$163.22M$162.77M$164.55M$164.11M$153.12M$152.90M$154.43M
Cost of revenue$76.64M$74.63M$68.96M$74.70M$78.42M$74.94M$71.66M$75.40M$76.22M$72.42M
Gross profit$95.09M$100.11M$89.38MUnavailable$84.34M$89.61M$92.45MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating income$13.53M$21.64M$18.97M$9.70M$7.02M$12.25M$21.54M$4.13M$2.22M$5.18M
Net income$9.77M$17.73M$12.61M$5.56M$4.50M$8.89M$12.96M$2.26M$371.00K$516.00K
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 18.81Mshares 18.80MUnavailableshares 18.76Mshares 18.60Mshares 18.42MUnavailableshares 18.25Mshares 18.13Mshares 17.81M
Pretax income$14.16M$19.25M$17.80M$8.63M$5.92M$11.36M$20.95M$3.50M$1.44M$5.06M
Income tax expense$4.39M$1.52M$5.19M$3.07M$1.42M$2.47M$7.99M$1.24M-$16.00K$1.21M
Diluted EPS$0.52$0.94$0.67$0.30$-0.02$0.41$0.63$0.04$-0.06$-0.06
Selling, general & administrative$77.61M$74.16M$66.20M$70.83M$73.20M$71.61M$65.28M$68.49M$68.26M$68.73M
General & administrative$37.49M$36.29M$35.34M$34.69M$38.15M$36.41M$36.23M$35.03M$34.43M$36.28M
Selling & marketing$40.12M$37.87M$30.86M$36.14M$35.05M$35.20M$29.06M$33.46M$33.84M$32.46M

Balance

AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-302024-03-31
Cash & equivalentsUnavailableUnavailable$174.10M$191.34M$174.95M$161.60M$131.93M$135.42M$129.80M$125.34M
Total assets$537.75M$537.91M$521.42M$525.30M$537.37M$578.66M$570.10M$569.59M$560.70M$558.98M
Current assets$282.52M$282.13M$259.82M$259.11M$234.96M$272.51M$260.57M$236.50M$223.50M$223.76M
Total liabilities$223.69M$231.75M$226.64M$245.96M$265.13M$268.65M$266.22M$279.17M$272.01M$270.51M
Current liabilities$86.96M$94.54M$75.05M$91.39M$82.91M$83.43M$79.16M$89.41M$78.88M$79.62M
Total equity incl. NCI$314.06M$306.16M$294.78M$279.34M$272.24M$310.01M$303.88M$290.42M$288.70M$288.47M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
InventoryUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts receivable$35.51M$38.71M$65.66M$43.91M$37.58M$41.87M$62.46M$42.65M$38.83M$44.57M
Goodwill$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M$59.59M
Long-term debt$81.64M$83.20M$94.66M$94.37M$94.06M$93.75M$93.42M$93.09M$92.75M$95.04M
Accounts payable$5.15M$8.14M$4.82M$7.71M$10.07M$7.85M$7.85M$10.46M$7.00M$7.34M

Cash flow

AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-302024-03-31
Operating cash flow$12.14M$63.30M-$11.55M$21.71M$14.81M$37.00M$1.60M$14.08M$12.45M$20.74M
Capital expenditures$4.74M$2.53M$4.07M$4.20M$3.70M$3.90M$3.35M$6.31M$5.20M$6.22M
Investing cash flow-$80.66M-$2.53M-$5.65M-$4.90M$18.75M-$3.40M-$3.35M-$6.31M-$5.20M-$6.22M
Financing cash flow-$5.93M-$16.28M$559.00K-$248.00K-$44.48M-$5.04M-$1.55M-$1.70M-$4.26M-$5.67M
Net change in cash-$74.45M$44.50M-$16.64M$16.56M-$10.92M$28.56M-$3.31M$6.06M$2.99M$8.86M
Stock-based compensation$2.23M$2.33M$2.22M$1.63M$2.24M$2.26M$2.17M$1.76M$1.82M$1.92M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$4.14M$8.71M$333.00K$206.00K$30.00K$3.69M$13.00K$92.00K$25.00K$4.11M
Depreciation & amortization$3.95M$4.15M$4.12M$3.95M$4.09M$3.99M$3.86M$5.08M$5.23M$5.13M

Derived

AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-06-302026-03-312025-12-312025-09-302025-06-302025-03-312024-12-312024-09-302024-06-302024-03-31
Free cash flow$7.40M$60.78M-$15.62M$17.51M$11.11M$33.10M-$1.76M$7.76M$7.26M$14.53M
Gross margin55.4%57.3%56.4%Unavailable51.8%54.5%56.3%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin7.9%12.4%12.0%Unavailable4.3%7.4%13.1%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
FCF margin4.3%34.8%-9.9%10.7%6.8%20.1%-1.1%5.1%4.7%9.4%
SBC / revenue1.3%1.3%1.4%Unavailable1.4%1.4%1.3%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current ratio3.25x2.98x3.46x2.84x2.83x3.27x3.29x2.65x2.83x2.81x
Revenue YoY growth5.5%6.2%-3.5%6.6%6.5%6.6%7.4%1.5%3.9%3.2%
Net margin5.7%Unavailable8.0%Unavailable2.8%Unavailable7.9%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue2.8%1.4%2.6%Unavailable2.3%2.4%2.0%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Long-term debt / equity0.26xUnavailable0.32x0.34xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate31.0%7.9%29.2%Unavailable24.0%21.7%38.1%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open APEI in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-10View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-11View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-03-12View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-10View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-12View SEC filing

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Reconciliation checks needing review

10 periods on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2025-09-30

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2024-09-30

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2024-06-30

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2024-03-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-09-30

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-06-30

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-03-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2022-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2022-09-30

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.