Both in Educational Services

American Public Education vs Perdoceo Education

Over the past year APEI returned +31.0% and PRDO returned −4.0%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.70.

APEI +31.0% PRDO −4.0%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricAPEIPRDO
Price$42.33$29.66
Market cap$774.7M$1.86B
Today+1.78%0.00%
1 month−4.7%−6.0%
6 months−27.2%−14.6%
Year to date+12.0%+1.1%
1 year+26.4%−6.6%
Revenue growth (YoY)+5.5%+1.8%
Gross margin55.4%76.1%
Net margin5.7%22.5%
P/E (TTM)17.0×10.5×
Price / sales1.2×2.2×
Net cash$135.5M$725.1M
Dividend yield—2.29%
Volatility (60d)35.2%25.0%
Short % of float16.0%7.2%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).