Perdoceo Education Corporation provides postsecondary education through online, campus-based, and blended learning programs in the United States. It operates through three segments: Colorado Technical University (CTU), The American InterContinental University System (AIUS), and University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS). The CTU segment offers academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business and management, nursing, healthcare management, computer science, …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 76.6% (top 3%) and operating margin at 23.2% (top 8%) indicate strong pricing power.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.95), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Perdoceo Education Corporation ranks #2 of 42
scored companies in Education & Training Services by moat score — the top 5%.
The widest moat in the group is Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near PRDO in Education & Training Services
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 69
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 84
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 84
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 80
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 74
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Perdoceo Education Corporation's moat score?
Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO) scores 82 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #2 of 42 scored companies in Education & Training Services, the top 5%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 41 companies in Education & Training Services. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (95/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (69/100).
How does Perdoceo Education Corporation compare with other Education & Training Services companies?
Perdoceo Education Corporation ranks #2 of 42 scored companies in Education & Training Services by moat score. The widest moat in Education & Training Services is Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE) at 82 just above it and Afya Limited (AFYA) at 81 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 41 companies in Education & Training Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Perdoceo Education Corporation scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Perdoceo Education Corporation?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and PRDO scores: Pricing Power (95), Cost Advantage (69), Customer Stickiness (84), Capital Efficiency (84), Resilience (80), Scale & Market Position (74). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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