Grand Canyon Education Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

LOPE Stock  USD 164.79  1.85  1.11%   
Given the investment horizon of 90 days and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Grand Canyon Education is 'Strong Hold'. Macroaxis provides Grand Canyon buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding LOPE positions.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

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Strong Hold

Market Performance

OKDetails

Volatility

Very steadyDetails

Hype Condition

Over hypedDetails

Current Valuation

OvervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Actively responds to the marketDetails

Investor Sentiment

AlarmedDetails

Analyst Consensus

Strong BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

StrongDetails

Financial Leverage

Not RatedDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Unlikely ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon Grand Canyon Education has a Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.0912, Jensen Alpha of 0.0335, Total Risk Alpha of (0.10), Sortino Ratio of 0.0978 and Treynor Ratio of 0.134
Macroaxis provides investment recommendation on Grand Canyon to complement and cross-verify current analyst consensus on Grand Canyon Education. Our trade recommendations engine determines the entity's potential to grow exclusively from the perspective of an investor's current risk tolerance and investing horizon. To make sure Grand Canyon Education is not overpriced, please check out all Grand Canyon fundamentals, including its gross profit, book value per share, and the relationship between the price to earning and cash per share . Given that Grand Canyon Education has a price to earning of 20.49 X, we strongly advise you to confirm Grand Canyon Education market performance and probability of bankruptcy to ensure the company can sustain itself in the current economic cycle given your regular risk tolerance and investing horizon.

Grand Canyon Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Grand Canyon has a strong financial position based on the latest SEC filings
Over 97.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors
Latest headline from finance.yahoo.com: PRDO or LOPE Which Is the Better Value Stock Right Now

Grand Canyon Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Grand Canyon's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Grand Canyon's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Grand Canyon daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Grand Canyon Education price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Grand Canyon returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Grand Canyon.
Mean Return
0.25
Value At Risk
-2.06
Potential Upside
2.20
Standard Deviation
2.27
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Grand Canyon historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Grand Stock Institutional Investors

Shares
Aqr Capital Management Llc2024-06-30
538.5 K
Geode Capital Management, Llc2024-09-30
518.3 K
Wasatch Advisors Lp2024-09-30
513.8 K
Thrivent Financial For Lutherans2024-09-30
423.6 K
Northern Trust Corp2024-09-30
389.2 K
Massachusetts Financial Services Company2024-09-30
385.2 K
Los Angeles Capital Management Llc2024-09-30
372.6 K
Amvescap Plc.2024-06-30
362.2 K
Norges Bank2024-06-30
358.1 K
Blackrock Inc2024-06-30
2.9 M
Vanguard Group Inc2024-09-30
2.9 M
Note, although Grand Canyon's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

Grand Canyon Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change In Cash(59.4M)123.2M355.2M(480.5M)26.1M27.4M
Free Cash Flow283.7M278.9M283.7M185.2M198.2M208.1M
Depreciation26.9M29.7M30.4M31.2M32.0M27.3M
Other Non Cash Items3.6M571K(4.3M)853K(442K)(419.9K)
Capital Expenditures22.7M29.9M29.4M35.6M45.4M87.3M
Net Income259.2M257.2M260.3M184.7M205.0M139.3M
End Period Cash Flow122.6M245.8M600.9M120.4M146.5M131.5M
Change To Netincome11.6M14.4M12.9M13.9M12.5M18.7M
Change To Inventory(14.1M)7.2M18.0M3.9M3.5M3.2M
Change Receivables766K(13.3M)(2.9M)(7.4M)(8.5M)(8.9M)
Net Borrowings(6.7M)80.2M(33.1M)(107.8M)(97.0M)(92.1M)
Investments47.8M85.6M1.2B(61.5M)(72.4M)(68.7M)

Grand Canyon Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Grand Canyon or Diversified Consumer Services sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Grand Canyon's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Grand stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
0.03
β
Beta against Dow Jones1.79
σ
Overall volatility
2.32
Ir
Information ratio 0.06

Grand Canyon Volatility Alert

Grand Canyon Education has relatively low volatility with skewness of 4.04 and kurtosis of 24.66. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Grand Canyon's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Grand Canyon's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

Grand Canyon Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Grand Canyon's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Grand Canyon's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Grand Canyon and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Grand Canyon or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Grand Canyon's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Grand Canyon by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Grand Canyon to competition
FundamentalsGrand CanyonPeer Average
Return On Equity0.32-0.31
Return On Asset0.18-0.14
Profit Margin0.22 %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.20 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation4.7 B16.62 B
Shares Outstanding29.15 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders2.07 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions97.41 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted383.77 K4.71 M
Price To Earning20.49 X28.72 X
Price To Book6.36 X9.51 X
Price To Sales4.77 X11.42 X
Revenue960.9 M9.43 B
Gross Profit487.5 M27.38 B
EBITDA291.68 M3.9 B
Net Income204.99 M570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents203.27 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share6.46 X5.01 X
Total Debt99.28 M5.32 B
Debt To Equity0.1 %48.70 %
Current Ratio2.41 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share26.47 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations243.66 M971.22 M
Short Ratio1.74 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share7.53 X3.12 X
Price To Earnings To Growth1.26 X4.89 X
Target Price179.67
Number Of Employees4.07 K18.84 K
Beta0.7-0.15
Market Capitalization4.86 B19.03 B
Total Asset930.46 M29.47 B
Retained Earnings2.24 B9.33 B
Working Capital240.49 M1.48 B
Note: Disposition of 7700 shares by Brian Mueller of Grand Canyon at 171.26 subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]

Grand Canyon Market Momentum

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Is Diversified Consumer Services space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Grand Canyon. If investors know Grand will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Grand Canyon listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.193
Earnings Share
7.53
Revenue Per Share
34.74
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.074
Return On Assets
0.184
The market value of Grand Canyon Education is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Grand that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Grand Canyon's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Grand Canyon's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Grand Canyon's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Grand Canyon's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Grand Canyon's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Grand Canyon is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Grand Canyon's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.