How American Public Education, Inc. stacks up

APEI · against 149 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Valuation

69/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #33 of 150 · scores higher than 77% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the valuation score

19 peers with a valuation score of 60–69, including APEI · Click a bar to see the companies

Why valuation scores 69?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly thanks to its EBITDA yield, earnings yield and free cash flow yield, which are stronger than most Consumer Defensive peers.

higher earnings for the price paid: stronger than 64% of peers. Earnings yield: 5.9% vs peer median 4.5%
more free cash flow for the price paid: stronger than 64% of peers. Free cash flow yield: 9.0% vs peer median 6.2%
more operating profit (EBITDA) for the company's total value: stronger than 68% of peers. EBITDA yield: 12.3% vs peer median 8.7%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = APEI, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	APEI	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 146 reported	5.9%	3.7%	70%	30%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 151 reported	11.9%	9.0%	71%	50%
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 132 reported	9.0%	5.8%	70%	20%
Book yieldHigher is better · 145 reported	40.4%	39.9%	51%	Context only

Ranking by valuation score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around APEI

Rank	Company	Market cap	Valuation	Overall
1	Afya LimitedAFYA · US-listed	933M USD	97	84
2	Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.NATR · US-listed	212M USD	93	72
2	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	93	88
4	Smithfield Foods, Inc.SFD · US-listed	7.2B USD	92	72
5	BellRing Brands, Inc.BRBR · US-listed	1.1B USD	91	67
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28	Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.NGVC · US-listed	644M USD	72	54
28	RLX Technology Inc.RLX · US-listed	2.0B USD	72	71
31	Village Farms International, Inc.VFF · US-listed	349M USD	71	64
32	Flowers Foods, Inc.FLO · US-listed	1.4B USD	70	33
33	American Public Education, Inc.APEI · US-listed	775M USD	69	65
33	The Campbell's CompanyCPB · US-listed	6.5B USD	69	37
33	Dole plcDOLE · US-listed	1.2B USD	69	38
36	Albertsons Companies, Inc.ACI · US-listed	6.4B USD	68	29
36	Central Garden & Pet CompanyCENT · US-listed	2.9B USD	68	57

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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