Both in Educational Services

Strategic Education vs American Public Education

Over the past year STRA returned −2.3% and APEI returned +25.6%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.60.

STRA −2.3% APEI +25.6%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricSTRAAPEI
Price$72.96$40.57
Market cap$1.62B$742.5M
Today−6.23%−8.42%
1 month−7.4%−6.4%
6 months−6.7%−30.3%
Year to date−9.0%+7.3%
1 year−6.8%+19.9%
Revenue growth (YoY)+4.9%+5.5%
Gross margin100.0%55.4%
Net margin11.0%5.7%
P/E (TTM)12.0×16.3×
Price / sales1.3×1.1×
Net cash$128.8M$135.5M
Dividend yield3.29%—
Volatility (60d)28.0%37.8%
Short % of float8.2%16.0%
Next earnings——

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