Grand Canyon Education
LOPE
About: Grand Canyon Education Inc is a publicly traded education services company dedicated to serving colleges and universities. GCE's university partner is Grand Canyon University, an Arizona non-profit corporation that operates a comprehensive regionally accredited university that offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs, emphases, and certificates across nine colleges both online, on the ground at its campus in Phoenix, Arizona and at four off-site classroom and laboratory sites. The Company generates all of its revenue through services agreements with its university partners.
Employees: 5,830
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
76% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $27.4M | Put options by funds: $15.6M
59% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 62 | Existing positions closed: 39
10% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $4.7B [Q1] → $5.15B (+$449M) [Q2]
4% more funds holding
Funds holding: 450 [Q1] → 467 (+17) [Q2]
1.49% more ownership
Funds ownership: 94.58% [Q1] → 96.07% (+1.49%) [Q2]
16% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 162 | Existing positions reduced: 193
22% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 9 [Q1] → 7 (-2) [Q2]
Research analyst outlook
2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
2 analyst ratings
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Barrington Research
Alexander Paris
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$215
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Outperform
Maintained
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7 Aug 2025 |
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BMO Capital
Jeffrey Silber
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$210
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Outperform
Maintained
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7 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 7 articles about LOPE published over the past 30 days
