139.76 USD
-18.60
11.75%
At close Updated Sep 15, 4:00 PM EDT
Pre-market
After hours
140.50
+0.74
0.53%
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-11.75%
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-15.23%
1 month
-12.75%
3 months
-2.74%
6 months
14.62%
Year to date
31.43%
1 year
68.59%
5 years
352.01%
10 years
932.96%
 

About: Stride Inc is an American online educational company. It offers alternative programs to traditional on-campus schooling. It also operates state-funded virtual charter schools around the United States. The educational programs for K-12 students are usually monitored by parents and provide virtual classroom environments where teachers meet with students online, by phone, or in-person. The company's contractual agreements with various school districts to offer its curriculum programs provide a majority of the company's revenue. The company lines of business are Managed Public School Programs, Institutional and Private Pay Schools and Other.

Employees: 8,600

0
Funds holding %
of 7,463 funds
Analysts bullish %

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

192% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 105 | Existing positions closed: 36

14% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $6B [Q1] → $6.84B (+$845M) [Q2]

13% more funds holding

Funds holding: 469 [Q1] → 530 (+61) [Q2]

1% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 192 | Existing positions reduced: 193

0.55% less ownership

Funds ownership: 108.87% [Q1] → 108.32% (-0.55%) [Q2]

1% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $90.7M | Put options by funds: $91.6M

29% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 7 [Q1] → 5 (-2) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target
$159
14% upside
Avg. target
$172
23% upside
High target
$185
32% upside

2 analyst ratings

positive
50%
neutral
50%
negative
0%
Barrington Research
Alexander Paris
$185
Outperform
Maintained
29 Aug 2025
Morgan Stanley
Greg Parrish
$159
Equal-Weight
Maintained
6 Aug 2025

Financial journalist opinion

Based on 20 articles about LRN published over the past 30 days

Neutral
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Positive
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Positive
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