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Strategic Education, Inc. STRA

Services-Educational Services · CIK 0001013934 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$1.27B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$174.23M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$153.95M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$2.00BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$87.99Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income15.8×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue1.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.2×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

15.8× earnings today, against a median of 32.7× across 9 years on record. Below its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$2.00B15.8×
2024-06-30$2.60B23.1×
2023-06-30$1.60B22.9×
2022-06-30$1.70B36.4×
2021-06-30$1.80B32.7×
2020-06-30$3.30B38.3×
2019-06-28$3.80B46.8×
2017-06-30$997.60M48.4×
2016-06-30$516.30M14.8×

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 margin12.1%85th
Effective tax rate28.6%75th
Operating margin13.7%70th
SBC / revenue1.8%69th
Current ratio1.27x36th
CapEx / revenue3.5%62th
Net margin10.0%60th
Revenue YoY growth4.0%52th

Strategic Education, Inc. (STRA) reported revenue of $1.27B and net income of $126.61M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from Strategic Education, Inc.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Services-Educational Services.

Income

Strategic Education, Inc. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$1.27B$1.22B$1.13B$1.07B$1.13B$1.03B$997.14M$634.18M$454.85M$441.09M
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating income$174.23M$155.63M$95.32M$70.76M$73.91M$109.38M$110.53M-$22.74M$52.21M$57.47M
Net income$126.61M$112.68M$69.79M$46.67M$55.09M$86.27M$81.14M-$15.67M$20.61M$34.80M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 23.40Mshares 24.14Mshares 23.96Mshares 24.00Mshares 24.12Mshares 22.86Mshares 22.10Mshares 15.19Mshares 11.20Mshares 10.84M
Pretax income$177.39M$161.43M$100.73M$69.57M$76.60M$113.96M$123.72M-$19.14M$52.65M$57.29M
Income tax expense$50.78M$48.75M$30.94M$22.90M$21.51M$27.69M$42.59M-$3.47M$32.03M$22.49M
Diluted EPS$5.41$4.67$2.91$1.94$2.28$3.77$3.67$-1.03$1.84$3.21
Selling, general & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$126.90M
General & administrative$424.97M$412.16M$384.44M$379.82M$361.34M$295.23M$272.41M$194.04M$129.33M$47.87M
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$136.98M$82.54M$79.02M

Balance

Strategic Education, Inc. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$140.76M$137.07M$168.48M$213.67M$268.92M$187.51M$419.69M$311.73M$155.93M$129.24M
Total assets$2.04B$2.05B$2.13B$2.16B$2.31B$2.30B$1.79B$1.66B$321.28M$298.70M
Current assets$277.86M$304.94M$329.07M$329.06M$367.79M$286.12M$524.09M$420.36M$190.35M$160.54M
Total liabilities$392.13M$387.24M$472.70M$525.96M$591.89M$547.49M$326.70M$235.80M$112.08M$110.32M
Current liabilities$217.94M$216.46M$209.62M$209.94M$195.76M$200.05M$156.75M$125.13M$69.07M$59.84M
Total equity incl. NCI$1.65B$1.66B$1.65B$1.64B$1.71B$1.75B$1.46B$1.43B$209.20M$188.37M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
InventoryUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts receivable$78.20M$76.13M$76.10M$62.95M$51.28M$50.17M$51.52M$55.69M$23.12M$20.53M
Goodwill$1.24B$1.21B$1.25B$1.25B$1.29B$1.32B$732.08M$732.54M$20.74M$20.74M
Long-term debtUnavailable$0$61.40M$101.40M$141.63M$141.82M$0UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts payableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Cash flow

Strategic Education, Inc. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$198.20M$169.33M$117.12M$126.05M$180.53M$142.90M$202.15M$46.87M$56.16M$44.52M
Capital expenditures$44.25M$40.58M$36.94M$43.17M$49.43M$46.81M$38.69M$27.55M$18.05M$13.16M
Investing cash flow$8.51M-$64.36M-$48.54M-$31.36M-$33.09M-$642.19M-$38.07M$130.14M-$18.05M-$20.80M
Financing cash flow-$206.16M-$136.77M-$113.61M-$142.36M-$67.89M$279.19M-$55.82M-$21.22M-$11.42M-$1.36M
Net change in cash$2.86M-$35.27M-$45.53M-$51.76M$77.19M-$218.48M$108.26M$155.79M$26.69M$22.37M
Stock-based compensation$22.95M$25.57M$19.77M$21.79M$18.15M$14.61M$12.16M$15.53M$11.63M$10.77M
Common dividends paid$57.54M$58.97M$58.78M$59.24M$59.04M$55.96M$46.62M$27.84M$11.42MUnavailable
Common share repurchases$138.89M$11.51M$10.00M$40.12M$5.90M$247.00K$0$0UnavailableUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$48.40M$44.40M$48.40M$52.00M$59.10M$51.80M$49.50M$31.40M$18.70M$17.80M

Derived

Strategic Education, Inc. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow$153.95M$128.75M$80.18M$82.88M$131.09M$96.09M$163.46M$19.32M$38.11M$31.36M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin13.7%12.8%8.4%6.6%6.5%10.6%11.1%-3.6%11.5%13.0%
FCF margin12.1%10.6%7.1%7.8%11.6%9.4%16.4%3.0%8.4%7.1%
SBC / revenue1.8%2.1%1.7%2.0%1.6%1.4%1.2%2.4%2.6%2.4%
Current ratio1.27x1.41x1.57x1.57x1.88x1.43x3.34x3.36x2.76x2.68x
Revenue YoY growth4.0%7.7%6.3%-5.9%10.1%3.1%57.2%39.4%3.1%Unavailable
Net margin10.0%9.2%6.2%4.4%4.9%8.4%8.1%-2.5%4.5%7.9%
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue3.5%3.3%3.3%4.1%4.4%4.6%3.9%4.3%4.0%3.0%
Long-term debt / equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate28.6%30.2%30.7%32.9%28.1%24.3%34.4%Unavailable60.8%39.3%

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

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-07-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-23View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-27View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-04-24View SEC filing

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