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This Educational Stock Is a Cheap Buy
By Vladimir Zernov - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: APOL, COCO, DV, ESI
ITT Educational Services’ (NYSE: ESI) stock was battered in 2012. After starting the year trading at $59.82, ITT's stock finished 2012 trading at only $19.29, a 67.8% decline. The company provides master, bachelor, associate and career-oriented education programs in various fields. This year, the stock has started showing signs of life again. It is currently up 20% year-to-date. The recent positive surprise in the company's more »
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Big Government Will Destroy Investors in For-Profit Education Stocks
By Ted Cooper - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: APOL, CPLA, COCO
The for-profit education industry is becoming a contrarian hotbed after the Department of Education's initial round of rule-making for the industry was not as strict as many investors had anticipated. However, the companies' reliance on Title IV funding is sure to sink them in the long run.
Paid by government, controlled by government
Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 governs federal student financial aid. Students who more »
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Education Stocks: Finally a Buy?
By Jacob Wolinsky - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: COCO, LOPE, STRA
For profit education companies have been under pressure lately as declining student enrollments across the country stand to impact the entire sector.
As if this was not enough, the government is following up with its pending reforms, aimed at tackling high student loan balances, with increased vigor. Many contend that formal education is losing its appeal and is an indication the sector will underperform for a long time.
As a more »
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Getting Schooled By Career Education Corp
By Sajid Karsan - March 6, 2013 | Tickers: APOL, CECO, COCO, DV, ESI, STRA
The for-profit education sector has been hit hard by the market, and for good reason. This industry utilized dishonest marketing practices and drove its enormous growth using massive amounts of federal funding that was rubber stamped by public servants asleep at the wheel. But the party's now over; new rules and additional oversight have pushed many companies in this sector into the red, causing massive losses. But has the more »
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Don't Get Schooled By DeVry
By Marshall Hargrave - February 19, 2013 | Tickers: APEI, APOL, COCO, DV, STRA
DeVry (NYSE: DV) was up over 16% earlier this month on better than expected quarterly earnings. The for-profit education company has seen its stock soar over 55% the last six months. Are there still opportunities for this education company to go higher? Maybe not, but I believe there is one company in the industry that could be a solid buy.
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Billionaire Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global is Selling this Stock
By Meena Krishnamsetty - December 11, 2012 | Tickers: APOL, COCO, DV, EDU, XRS
At the beginning of this year, Tiger Global Management owned a total of about 23.5 million shares in TAL Education Group (NYSE: XRS), a $670 million market cap Chinese tutoring company. However, in recent months the hedge fund seems to have been reducing its stake. A 13D filing in late October had the fund's holdings of TAL falling to 22.2 million shares, and a more recent filing more »
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Which For-Profit Education Institutions to Buy?
By Anh HOANG - December 11, 2012 | Tickers: APOL, COCO, DV, STRA
For profit education institutions have suffered substantially in the market these days. Even famous short-seller Jim Chanos commented that the for-profit education model was broken, as it relied heavily on the government funding, which was taxpayers’ money. However, when any stock is beaten down so badly my interest rises, as the price might be too cheap compared to the problems the business is facing. In addition, some for-profit educational institutions more »
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For-Profits Profiting Short Sellers
By Kyle Metivier - August 2, 2012 | Tickers: APOL, BPI, COCO, DV, STRA
“Please, try to understand. I don't have the background for this. I mean, the high school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity, he threw the teacher out the window!” – Thornton Melon, Back to School
Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will release a Gore Vidal-worthy report on the for-profit education industry. As a reminder, and more »
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For-Profit Ed: Time For Fresh Look
By Jane Genova - March 30, 2012 | Tickers: CECO, COCO, DV, STRA, WPO
One way that a trend becomes a game-changer is when the business media say it is. Last Friday, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL declared online education as the force which will topple the Ivory Tower. Dirt-poor Bronx kids view online the same courses elite Harvard undergraduates do. Harvard won’t collapse but the advantage it provides graduates will be downsized.
Investors in for-profit recognize immediately that, yes, the sector was on more »
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Why This Education Company May Disappoint in 2012
By Christopher French - February 17, 2012 | Tickers: APOL, COCO, DV, EDMC
Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) is one of the largest and most successful for profit education companies in the world and owns the University of Phoenix, which boasts an enrollment 350,000 students, served through over 200 learning centers in 40 States as well as locations abroad. Its online program blazed the trail for education services over the internet and allows the company to provide over 100 degrees to its students more »