NASDAQ:CECO - Career Education Stock Price, Forecast & News

Career Education trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CECO."

Career Education Corp. (NASDAQ:CECO) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company reported $0.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.08. The business earned $155 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $146.70 million. Career Education had a return on equity of 26.01% and a net margin of 9.20%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 6.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.25 EPS. View Career Education's Earnings History.

Career Education is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Career Education.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Career Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $26.00. On average, they anticipate Career Education's stock price to reach $24.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 33.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Career Education.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Career Education in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Career Education.

Media coverage about CECO stock has been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Career Education earned a coverage optimism score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Career Education.

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Career Education's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Renaissance Technologies LLC (7.23%), FMR LLC (3.19%), SG Capital Management LLC (3.16%), State Street Corp (2.94%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (1.45%) and Tenzing Global Management LLC (1.28%). Company insiders that own Career Education stock include Andrew Hurst, David C Czeszewski, Gregory L Jackson, Jeffrey David Ayers, John Robert Kline, Michele A Peppers, Richard D Wang and Thomas B Lally. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Career Education.

CECO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, AQR Capital Management LLC, Tenzing Global Management LLC, Oxford Asset Management LLP, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Russell Investments Group Ltd. and Alambic Investment Management L.P.. Company insiders that have sold Career Education company stock in the last year include Andrew Hurst, David C Czeszewski, Jeffrey David Ayers, John Robert Kline, Michele A Peppers and Thomas B Lally. View Insider Buying and Selling for Career Education.

CECO stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including SG Capital Management LLC, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Mcclain Value Management LLC, Acadian Asset Management LLC, Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors LLC, Cadence Capital Management LLC and Prudential Financial Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Career Education.

Shares of CECO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CECO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.39.

Career Education has a market capitalization of $1.29 billion and generates $581.30 million in revenue each year. The company earns $55.18 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.05 on an earnings per share basis. Career Education employs 4,244 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Career Education.

The official website for Career Education is http://www.careered.com/.

Career Education's mailing address is 231 NORTH MARTINGALE ROAD, SCHAUMBURG IL, 60173. The company can be reached via phone at 847-781-3600 or via email at [email protected]