Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE): Price and Financial Metrics

LOPE POWR Grades

• LOPE scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 94.31% of US stocks.
• LOPE's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• LOPE's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 18.57% of US stocks).

LOPE Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of GRAND CANYON EDUCATION INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 81.8% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• LOPE's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of only 17.97% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 21.69%, GRAND CANYON EDUCATION INC's debt growth rate surpasses 78.55% of about US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LOPE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are SXT, SCHL, RL, ARC, and WMK.
• Visit LOPE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.gce.com.

LOPE Valuation Summary

• LOPE's price/sales ratio is 4.5; this is 373.68% higher than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 184 months, LOPE's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LOPE.

LOPE Growth Metrics

Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 12.55%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 127.49%.
• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -16.61%.

LOPE's revenue has moved up $108,295,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows LOPE's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	911.306	220.819	184.675
2022-09-30	903.982	214.694	198.761
2022-06-30	902.029	248.879	216.411
2022-03-31	903.763	293.552	240.31
2021-12-31	896.564	313.119	260.344
2021-09-30	883.477	337.635	261.986

LOPE's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• LOPE has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 80.61% of graded US stocks.
• LOPE's asset turnover comes in at 0.474 -- ranking 33rd of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• SP, WW, and CHGG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LOPE.

The table below shows LOPE's key quality metrics over time.