American Public Education Inc [APEI] stock is trading at $29.27, up 4.28%. It is a good measure of the stock’s recent performance to check whether the stock’s short-term value is rising or falling. The APEI shares have gain 7.29% over the last week, with a monthly amount drifted -0.37%, and not seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.
From an analyst’s perspective:
American Public Education Inc [NASDAQ: APEI] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on June 18, 2025, when Northland Capital initiated its Outperform rating and assigned the stock a price target of $36. Previously, Lake Street started tracking the stock with Buy rating on April 25, 2025, and set its price target to $30. William Blair upgraded its rating to a Outperform. Truist initiated its recommendation with a Hold and recommended $6 as its price target on May 26, 2023. Truist started tracking with a Buy rating for this stock on April 06, 2021, and assigned it a price target of $43. In a note dated March 17, 2021, William Blair initiated an Outperform rating.
American Public Education Inc [APEI] stock has fluctuated between $11.80 and $30.32 over the past year. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $15.5 within the next 12 months. American Public Education Inc [NASDAQ: APEI] shares were valued at $29.27 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential drop of -47.04% based on the average APEI price forecast.
Analyzing the APEI fundamentals
American Public Education Inc [NASDAQ:APEI] reported sales of 634.68M for the trailing twelve months, which represents a growth of 6.55%. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.51% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.06%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.06%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.04%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.04, Equity is 0.08 and Total Capital is 0.08. Upon thorough examination of the company’s fundamental financial framework, it becomes apparent that the debt-to-equity ratio stands at 0.34.
Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 28.37 points at the first support level, and at 27.48 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 30.36, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 31.45.
Ratios To Look Out For
For context, American Public Education Inc’s Current Ratio is 3.27. Further, the Quick Ratio stands at 3.27, while the Cash Ratio is 2.25. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 0.83, the price to book ratio is 1.95 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 29.06.
Transactions by insiders
Recent insider trading involved 325 CAPITAL LLC, Director, that happened on Jun 06 ’25 when 0.21 million shares were sold. Director, 325 CAPITAL LLC completed a deal on Jun 05 ’25 to sell 0.1 million shares. Meanwhile, Director 325 CAPITAL LLC sold 27523.0 shares on Jun 04 ’25.
