How Perdoceo Education Corporation stacks up

PRDO · against 151 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

93/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #14 of 152 · scores higher than 91% of peers

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

21 peers with a profitability score of 90–100, including PRDO · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 93?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets, operating margin and return on invested capital, which are stronger than most Consumer Defensive peers.

a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 82% of peers. Return on invested capital: 19.1% vs peer median 7.7%
a wider operating margin: stronger than 93% of peers. Operating margin: 24.6% vs peer median 7.6%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 95% of peers. Return on assets: 13.3% vs peer median 4.0%

Metric by metric

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

Metric	PRDO	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 147 reported	19.1%	8.4%	79%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 153 reported	24.6%	5.9%	93%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 152 reported	13.3%	4.3%	93%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 144 reported	17.6%	10.2%	73%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 154 reported	79.9%	35.5%	98%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around PRDO

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Altria Group, Inc.MO · US-listed	128.5B USD	99	46
1	Philip Morris International Inc.PM · US-listed	324.2B USD	99	54
1	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	99	88
4	The Vita Coco Company, Inc.COCO · US-listed	3.5B USD	98	73
5	National Beverage Corp.FIZZ · US-listed	3.4B USD	97	54
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10	Colgate-Palmolive CompanyCL · US-listed	76.2B USD	94	43
10	The Coca-Cola CompanyKO · US-listed	407.9B USD	94	53
10	Niagen Bioscience, Inc.NAGE · US-listed	187M USD	94	78
14	Stride, Inc.LRN · US-listed	3.1B USD	93	89
14	Perdoceo Education CorporationPRDO · US-listed	1.9B USD	93	85
16	The Procter & Gamble CompanyPG · US-listed	376.4B USD	92	51
16	Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.SFM · US-listed	4.9B USD	92	64
18	Grand Canyon Education, Inc.LOPE · US-listed	3.9B USD	91	64
19	Dollar Tree, Inc.DLTR · US-listed	25.2B USD	90	65

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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