NYSE:LRN - K12 Stock Price, Forecast & News

K12 trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LRN."

K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The company reported ($0.25) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.18) by $0.07. The business earned $257.12 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $253.94 million. K12 had a return on equity of 5.75% and a net margin of 3.50%. The business's revenue was up 2.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned ($0.22) EPS. View K12's Earnings History.

K12 is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, January 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for K12.

K12 will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, January 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for K12's shares. Their forecasts range from $33.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect K12's share price to reach $36.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 75.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for K12.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for K12 in the last year. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for K12.

Press coverage about LRN stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. K12 earned a news impact score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for K12.

K12 saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,080,000 shares, an increase of 15.1% from the December 15th total of 938,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 340,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.2 days. Currently, 2.8% of the company's shares are short sold. View K12's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to K12 include Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Career Education (CECO), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), National American University Holdngs (NAUH), Corinthian Colleges (COCOQ) and ITT Educational Services (ESINQ).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other K12 investors own include Corbus Pharmaceuticals (CRBP), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Century Aluminum (CENX), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Yamana Gold (AUY), Centurylink (CTL), IBM (IBM), Verizon Communications (VZ), Abraxas Petroleum (AXAS) and FireEye (FEYE).

K12's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.19%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.01%). Company insiders that own K12 stock include Howard D Polsky, Kevin Chavous and Nathaniel A Davis. View Institutional Ownership Trends for K12.

LRN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank and Hennessy Advisors Inc.. Company insiders that have sold K12 company stock in the last year include Kevin Chavous and Nathaniel A Davis. View Insider Buying and Selling for K12.

Shares of LRN 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 LRN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.81.

K12 has a market capitalization of $852.27 million and generates $1.02 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $37.21 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.91 on an earnings per share basis. K12 employs 4,550 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About K12.

The official website for K12 is http://www.k12.com/.

K12's mailing address is 2300 Corporate Park Drive, Herndon VA, 20171. The company can be reached via phone at 703-483-7000 or via email at [email protected]