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Perdoceo Education Corp. PRDO

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$846.1M
▲ 24.2% YoY
$159.9M
▲ 8.4% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Perdoceo Education Corporation's accredited academic institutions provide degree programs from the associate through doctoral level, as well as non-degree seeking and professional development programs, through fully online, campus-based and hybrid learning programs. Total student enrollments as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 were approximately 44,400 students and 41,380 students, respectively, with approximately 91% enrolled in the company's institutions' fully-online academic programs for each of those years. As of December 31, 2025, it had 6,000 employees, of which 2,039 worked for CTU, 1,648 worked for AIUS and 1,435 worked for USAHS, with the remainder being corporate-level employees. The company's reporting segments correspond to its accredited institutions. CTU offers academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business and management, nursing, healthcare management, computer science, engineering, information systems and technology, project management, cybersecurity and criminal justice. AIUS offers academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, information technologies, education, behavioral sciences and criminal justice, and comprises three universities: American InterContinental University, Trident University International and California Southern University. USAHS offers graduate degrees in health sciences, primarily in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language therapy and nursing, along with continuing education programs.

Written from the business description in Perdoceo Education Corporation's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 846.1M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 0.8 · Net income 0.2
0.8B1.6B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+6.8%
+4.2%
−0.0%
−5.8%
+18.6%
+5.2%
+11.9%
+0.1%
+20.3%
+6.8%
+12.3%
+1.4%
+75.8%
+57.9%
−1.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.2% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +5.2%, earnings per share at +6.8%.

The share count fell from 0.07B to 0.06B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
19 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 23.2% · Net 18.9%
10%20%-5%-10%-15%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 16.6%
10%20%-20%-40%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 17 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 119.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2016 · FCF 2.3
80M160M-50M-100M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 119.2
80M160M2008201020122020202220242025

USD 119.2M in buybacks — 75% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 1.2B
EquityUSD 972.4M
CashUSD 111.0M
Current ratio5.06×

Equity funds 78% of total assets.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B0.80.70.70.70.70.70.60.60.60.70.80.91.01.01.72.11.81.7
Operating income $B0.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.0−0.0−0.1−0.1−0.2−0.10.00.20.20.1
EBITDA $B0.20.20.20.10.20.20.10.10.0−0.0−0.1−0.1−0.10.00.10.30.30.2
Income tax $B0.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.1−0.0−0.10.00.0−0.00.00.10.10.0
Net income $B0.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.1−0.0−0.00.1−0.2−0.2−0.10.00.20.10.1
Free cash flow $B·········0.0−0.0−0.1−0.1−0.10.20.10.20.1
EPS, diluted $2.422.192.181.391.551.740.970.77−0.46−0.270.76−2.65−2.46−2.150.251.950.940.67
Dividend / sh $0.560.480.22···············
Payout %··10···············
ROE %16.616.418.813.918.225.217.816.9−10.3−5.716.7−48.3−30.8−20.12.117.08.76.3
Shares out B0.060.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.070.080.09·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 6 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Educational Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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