Perdoceo Education Corporation
PRDO
Market read
Perdoceo Education Corporation's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 14 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 4.1% versus the comparable filing period.
- PRDO's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if PRDO's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 14 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 4.1% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 4.2 percentage points.
- Net income increased 23.5% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- PRDO's market-adjusted activity becomes unusual and at least one connected name confirms.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +24.2% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.41x in the latest annual period.
- Operating margin changed -2.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed -2.8 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- P/E is 27% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 76% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 9, 2026
33.16Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 2.6× · EV/sales 2.5×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 10 Sept, 14:20 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for PRDO. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-05-07 against the comparable filing from 2025-05-01.
What improved
- Revenue increased 4.1% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 4.2 percentage points.
- Net income increased 23.5% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“Current quarter operating income for CTU increased by 8.1% or $3.8 million as compared to the prior year quarter driven by the increase in revenue discussed above as well as decreased bad debt expense, which partially offset increases within other operating expenses.”
“The improvement was primarily driven by higher revenue at CTU and USAHS as well as decreased depreciation and amortization expense at USAHS and decreased bad debt expense at CTU and AIUS as compared to the prior year quarter.”
“General and Administrative Expense (dollars in thousands) For the Quarter Ended March 31, 2026 2025 2026 vs 2025 % Change General and administrative: Advertising and marketing $ 28,316 $ 27,958 1.3% Admissions 22,482 22,465 0.1% Administrative 45,666 42,947 6.3% Bad debt 5,745 7,558 -24.0% Total general and administrative expense $ 102,209 $ 100,928 1.3% The general and administrative expense for the current quarter increased by 1.3% or $1.3 million as compared to the prior year quarter primarily due to higher advertising and marketing and administrative costs, which was only partially offset with reduced bad debt.”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind PRDO
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
UTIUniversal Technical Institute, Inc.competitorNov 26, 2025 ▾
“Within the for-profit education sector, some of our public company competitors are Adtalem Global Education, Inc., American Public Education, Inc., Legacy Education, Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, Perdoceo Education Corporation, and Strategic Educa…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
PRDO is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Mixed Service Stocks. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.