Perdoceo Education (PRDO)

Consumer Defensive · Education & Training Services
$33.71 +0.84% on the day Market cap $2.0B 52-week range $26.66 to $38.50 Prices as of Oct 11, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
-5% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $2.0B, Perdoceo Education's free cash flow of $217M (fiscal 2025) would need to grow about -5% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is slower than the company has grown its free cash flow over the last 9 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from Perdoceo Education's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price-5.0% a year
Free cash flow, last 9 years65.3% a year
Revenue, same period2.1% a year
Price to free cash flow9.4x

Fundamental grade

B

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from PRDO's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation8
Profitability8
Growth5
Financial health8
Cash efficiency9

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from Perdoceo Education's 10-K filings. Ten years of the full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.

Fiscal year20212022202320242025
Revenue$693M$695M$710M$681M$846M
Net income$110M$96M$148M$148M$160M
Free cash flow$181M$136M$106M$157M$217M
EPS (diluted)$1.55$1.39$2.18$2.19$2.42
Operating margin21.5%18.6%21.2%25.6%23.2%

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by segments, fiscal 2020. Every breakdown, year by year.

University Group$687M100%
Corporate and Other$446,0000%

Superinvestors who own PRDO

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows).

None of the superinvestors we track held PRDO in their latest 13F.

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by Perdoceo Education's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you.

No open-market insider purchases of PRDO in the last 12 months. Most insider activity is selling and option exercises, which aren't shown here.

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In the full deep dive

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Questions

What growth does Perdoceo Education's stock price imply?

At a market value of $2.0B, Perdoceo Education would need its free cash flow to grow about -5% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 9 years its free cash flow grew 65% a year.

Are Perdoceo Education insiders buying the stock?

No open-market insider purchases of PRDO in the last 12 months, according to SEC Form 4 filings.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 11, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.