[PR Newswire] - The ITT Technical Institutes have been named military friendly schools by G.I. Jobs. The institutes were recognized for their support to military personnel, veterans and their dependents.
[Zacks] - Quarterly earnings per share came in at $2.78, which easily surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.67 as well as the year-ago earnings of $1.85 per share.
ITT Technical Institutes Named Military Friendly Schools by G.I. JobsPR NewswireCARMEL, Ind., Aug. 30CARMEL, Ind., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The ITT Technical Institutes have been named military 2010 08 30 10:59
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of for-profit education providers were up Wednesday afternoon in conjunction with a rising broader market. Washington Post Co. , the parent of Kaplan Inc., was up 5.6%; Corinthian Colleges Inc. rose 7%; DeVry Inc. was up 2.5%; Apollog Group Inc. was better by 4%; and American Public Education Inc. was up by 3.4%. Analysts downgraded some firms in the sector earlier this week, pushing the stocks to steep declines. Regulators have been taking a closer look at for-profit educators because of claims that the institutions have been preying on low-income 2010 08
For-profit education companies have taken a pounding over the last few months. While bullish investors point to stable earnings and a growing need for vocational education, regulatory concerns have given the bears the upper hand.
The following is a list of undervalued stocks, when comparing Monday's close to the average analyst target price (i.e. discount to analyst fair value). All of these stocks have market caps north of $1.0B, and have seen significant institutional inflows over the last 3 months.
The smart money seems to think these stocks are undervalued. What do you think? Institutional data sourced from Reuters.com, and analyst target prices sourced from Zacks Investment Research.
The following is a list of oversold stocks, as defined by the RSI(14) indicator. All of these stocks have seen institutional investor inflows over the last 3 months. Will the smart money double down on these recent losers, or will they exacerbate the declines by cutting their losses?
To control the quality of the list, we only focused on stocks with market caps north of $300M. The list has been sorted by the percentage increase in institutional ownership over the last 3 months.
We continue to be impressed by the offerings in the SeekingAlpha App Store, particularly the MarketGrader app. [Ed: The Application Platform/Store is currently in beta and available only to contributors. It will go live to all users in October.]
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Yesterday I went scanning for 52 week low stocks and all the higher education companies popped up on the list. Devry (DV) announced earnings on Thursday night that beat expectations but that didn’t help matter. The market is responding to the ongoing investigation in the senate regarding deceptive practices conducted by various for profit colleges.
As I always like to remind people, you can not fight the trend. The trend on all these stocks are down. They all made 52 week lows on Friday, and we can only assume that they will continue...
It's been an absolutely brutal summer for the for-profit education stocks. In late June, the Senate began investigating whether for-profit academic institutions such as Apollo Group (Nasdaq: APOL) were a worthwhile use of taxpayer funds for student loans when their students have higher-than-average loan default rates. Senate investigators also questioned whether all of these institutions even offered academic benefits of sufficient value to justify such a high number of student loans.
We've compiled a list of 6 stocks that have shown strong growth trends over the past 5 years, have positive ROE and ROA, yet have had a poor year. All stocks mentioned here have market caps north of $2B. All ROE and ROA figures based on trailing twelve month data.
About a decade ago, if you were a working adult wanting to go back to school, you had to make hard lifestyle sacrifices because traditional colleges and universities did not make it easy for you to attend their institutions. You could not simply keep your job and take classes in the evenings or on the weekends. This unmet demand gave birth to for-profit education colleges and universities that targeted working adults and allowed them to take classes online and at off-peak times. Companies such as Apollo Group (
The following is a list of recent insider buys between August 2-4, according to SEC filings. We've sorted the list by value of investment, and have also named the insiders involved.
Beleaguered school stocks got some relief Friday after new regulations proposed by the U.S. Dept. of Education weren’t as tough as expected. It's not really enough to make them attractive yet, but it's a start.
Publicly-traded stocks in the U.S.-based education and training services industry jumped an average of more than 3.8% Friday. The group, attacked by short sellers and battered by tales of bad student loans and mixed results in training students for the work force, had suffered losses of more than 10% year-to-date that included a 22% drubbing in the past three months. The government...
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About a month ago, Deutsche Bank gave the Education & Training Services industry some bad news as it announced a downgrade on one of its stocks. ITT Educational Services Inc. (ESI) [Chart ...
By Mark Scott Kevin Modany has a mission at ITT Educational Services Inc. His job is to increase access to high-quality, post-secondary education so that more people across the United States can ...
Strayer Education Inc. (STRA) [Chart - Analysis - News] released its most recent earnings statement about a month ago on Thursday, July 29th. Strayer Education Inc. beat expectations with a profit ...
By Chip Brian ITT Educational Services (NYSE:ESI) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $52.21 to a high of $54.74. Yesterday, the shares fell 2.54%, which took the trading range ...
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The ITT Technical Institutes have been named military friendly schools by GI Jobs. The institutes were recognized for their support to military personnel, veterans and their dependents. The list ...
By Chip Brian Below are the top five companies in the Services sector as measured by relative performance. Highest relative performance is a comparison between a share and its peers made to ...
New York, August 30th (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE:ESI) closed the trading day higher by $0.11 or 0.2% from its previous close. ITT's shares price action ...
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