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	Bright Scholar Education	iHuman	Vasta Platform	American Public Education	Perdoceo Education
Symbol	NYSE:BEDU	NYSE:IH	NASDAQ:VSTA	NASDAQ:APEI	NASDAQ:PRDO
Price Information
Current Price	$4.76	$11.49	$8.44	$26.48	$11.81
52 Week Range	N/A	Buy	Buy	Buy	Buy
MarketRank™
Overall Score	1.4	1.7	1.9	2.1	2.1
Analysis Score	0.0	3.5	3.4	3.4	3.5
Community Score	2.2	5.0	3.6	2.2	1.5
Dividend Score	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ownership Score	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.7	1.7
Earnings & Valuation Score	2.5	0.0	2.5	3.1	3.8
Analyst Ratings
Consensus Recommendation	N/A	Buy	Buy	Buy	Buy
Consensus Price Target	N/A	$26.10	$18.00	$41.33	$20.00
% Upside from Price Target	N/A	127.15% upside	113.27% upside	56.09% upside	69.35% upside
Trade Information
Market Cap	$617.22 million	$612.69 million	$700.62 million	$494.41 million	$831.90 million
Beta	0.97	N/A	N/A	0.79	1.74
Average Volume	36,738	96,248	109,206	133,807	463,439
Sales & Book Value
Annual Revenue	$491.65 million	$30.95 million	N/A	$286.27 million	$627.70 million
Price / Sales	1.16	19.80	N/A	1.73	1.33
Cashflow	$0.46 per share	N/A	N/A	$2.24 per share	$1.45 per share
Price / Cash	10.40	N/A	N/A	11.81	8.13
Book Value	$3.68 per share	N/A	N/A	$19.27 per share	$6.13 per share
Price / Book	1.29	∞	N/A	1.37	1.93
Profitability
Net Income	$23.51 million	$-39,010,000.00	N/A	$10.01 million	$69.98 million
EPS	$0.32	N/A	N/A	$1.09	$1.37
Trailing P/E Ratio	25.05	0.00	0.00	22.83	6.75
Forward P/E Ratio	7.32	∞	16.23	18.65	6.95
P/E Growth	N/A	N/A	0.99	1.46	0.49
Net Margins	4.62%	N/A	N/A	5.63%	18.49%
Return on Equity (ROE)	8.63%	N/A	N/A	5.95%	23.50%
Return on Assets (ROA)	2.72%	N/A	N/A	4.88%	17.33%
Dividend
Annual Payout	$0.11	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dividend Yield	2.31%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Three-Year Dividend Growth	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Payout Ratio	34.38%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Years of Consecutive Dividend Growth	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio	0.67%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Current Ratio	1.27%	1.04%	N/A	4.14%	4.23%
Quick Ratio	1.26%	1.00%	N/A	4.14%	4.23%
Ownership Information
Institutional Ownership Percentage	N/A	N/A	N/A	91.71%	91.90%
Insider Ownership Percentage	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.73%	3.55%
Miscellaneous
Employees	11,499	437	1,960	1,464	2,550
Shares Outstanding	119.39 million	53.32 million	83.01 million	18.67 million	70.44 million
Next Earnings Date	7/28/2021 (Estimated)	N/A	N/A	8/9/2021 (Estimated)	8/5/2021 (Estimated)
Optionable	Not Optionable	Not Optionable	Not Optionable	Optionable	Optionable

Source	Headline
	Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) CEO Todd Nelson on Q1 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript seekingalpha.com - May 10 at 2:25 PM
	Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.01 EPS americanbankingnews.com - May 9 at 2:16 PM
	What You Didn’t Know About Perdoceo Education Corporation (NASDAQ:PRDO) This Week stocksregister.com - May 8 at 2:19 PM
	Perdoceo Education: Q1 Earnings Snapshot sfgate.com - May 7 at 8:48 AM
	Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) Issues Q2 Earnings Guidance americanbankingnews.com - May 7 at 8:10 AM
	Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) Releases FY21 Earnings Guidance americanbankingnews.com - May 7 at 8:10 AM
	Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) Updates FY 2021 Earnings Guidance americanbankingnews.com - May 7 at 7:26 AM
	Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) Updates Q2 2021 Earnings Guidance americanbankingnews.com - May 7 at 7:26 AM
	Perdoceo Education: Q1 Earnings Insights benzinga.com - May 6 at 6:37 PM
	Perdoceo Education Corporation Announces First Quarter 2021 Results finance.yahoo.com - May 6 at 5:42 PM
	Perdoceo Education Corporation's (NASDAQ:PRDO) Stock Has Been Sliding But Fundamentals Look Strong: Is The Market Wrong? nasdaq.com - May 4 at 11:54 PM
	Numerous Factors Help Propel the Growth of Online Education Solutions prnewswire.com - April 29 at 9:48 AM
	Perdoceo Education (PRDO) Scheduled to Post Quarterly Earnings on Thursday americanbankingnews.com - April 29 at 3:18 AM
	Perdoceo Education Corporation Schedules First Quarter Earnings Conference Call for May 6 finance.yahoo.com - April 15 at 9:59 AM
	Perdoceo Education Stock Is Believed To Be Possible Value Trap uk.finance.yahoo.com - April 15 at 7:35 AM
	Should You Think About Buying Perdoceo Education Corporation (NASDAQ:PRDO) Now? finance.yahoo.com - April 12 at 1:19 PM
	Alan Wheat Joins Perdoceo Education Corporation Board of Directors finance.yahoo.com - March 9 at 6:37 PM
	The Independent Director of Perdoceo Education Corporation (NASDAQ:PRDO), Gregory Jackson, Just Sold 81% Of Their Holding nasdaq.com - March 7 at 9:02 AM
	Does Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) Have The DNA Of A Multi-Bagger? finance.yahoo.com - March 5 at 8:48 AM
	ROCE Insights For Perdoceo Education benzinga.com - February 26 at 1:07 PM
	Perdoceo Education: 4Q Earnings Snapshot \| Raleigh News & Observer newsobserver.com - February 24 at 7:54 PM
	Perdoceo Education Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Results finance.yahoo.com - February 24 at 6:20 PM
	Earnings Preview for Perdoceo Education benzinga.com - February 23 at 1:36 PM
	Colorado Technical University Ranks Among 2021 Best Online Degree Programs by U.S. News & World Report benzinga.com - February 9 at 8:20 AM
	Perdoceo Education fool.com - January 31 at 6:55 PM

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action
1/10/2020	Bright Scholar Education	Morgan Stanley	Upgrade
12/12/2019	Bright Scholar Education	The Goldman Sachs Group	Downgrade
12/24/2020	iHuman	National Securities	Initiated Coverage
5/11/2021	Vasta Platform	Bank of America	Downgrade
4/20/2021	Vasta Platform	Itau BBA Securities	Initiated Coverage
12/17/2020	Vasta Platform	Scotiabank	Initiated Coverage
8/25/2020	Vasta Platform	UBS Group	Initiated Coverage
4/13/2021	American Public Education	Truist Securities	Initiated Coverage
3/23/2021	American Public Education	William Blair	Initiated Coverage
12/18/2020	American Public Education	B. Riley	Initiated Coverage
11/10/2020	American Public Education	Barrington Research	Boost Price Target
11/2/2020	American Public Education	Sidoti	Upgrade
8/12/2020	American Public Education	BMO Capital Markets	Boost Price Target
8/2/2018	Perdoceo Education	Piper Jaffray Companies	Reiterated Rating

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