The key reasons why Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) is -13.40% away from 52-week high?

Perdoceo Education Corporation (NASDAQ: PRDO) open the trading on Thursday, with great promise as it jumped 0.92% to $16.99, before settling in for the price of $16.83 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, PRDO posted a 52-week range of $11.50-$19.62.

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The Consumer Defensive Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 4.15%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 23.04%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -6.42%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $65.54 million, simultaneously with a float of $63.46 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1.12 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $17.52, while the 200-day Moving Average is $16.89.

Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) Ownership Facts and Figures

Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Education & Training Services industry. Perdoceo Education Corporation’s current insider ownership accounts for 3.33%, in contrast to 95.75% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 28 ’24, this organization’s President and CEO sold 1,670 shares at the rate of 17.79, making the entire transaction reach 29,709 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 615,697. Preceding that transaction, on Mar 27 ’24, Company’s President and CEO sold 16,000 for 17.70, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 283,200. This particular insider is now the holder of 617,367 in total.

Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) Earnings and Revenue Records

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.75 per share during the current fiscal year.

Perdoceo Education Corporation’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -6.42% and is forecasted to reach 2.20 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 15.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 23.04% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Perdoceo Education Corporation (NASDAQ: PRDO) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 5.85. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.38. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $7.82, and its Beta score is 0.95. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.57. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 10.56.

In the same vein, PRDO’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 2.17, a figure that is expected to reach 0.52 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 2.20 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO)

[Perdoceo Education Corporation, PRDO] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 25.83% While, its Average True Range was 0.38.

Raw Stochastic average of Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 32.34%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 31.85% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 17.57% that was lower than 21.75% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.