Should you hold on to your Strategic position?

As many investors are getting excited about consumer defensive space, it is fair to go over Strategic Education. Why are we still confident in anticipation of a complete recovery. Is Strategic Education current valuation justified for 2020? Here i will cover my perspective on valuation to give Strategic investors a better outlook on taking a position in the stock.
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Reviewed by Raphi Shpitalnik

The company currently holds 103.57 M in liabilities with Debt to Equity (D/E) ratio of 0.07, which may suggest the firm is not taking enough advantage from borrowing. Strategic Education has a current ratio of 3.24, suggesting that it is liquid enough and is able to pay its financial obligations when due. Strategic Education is UNDERVALUED at 175.50 per share with modest projections ahead.
We determine the current worth of Strategic Education using both absolute as well as relative valuation methodologies to arrive at its intrinsic value. In general, an absolute valuation paradigm, as applied to this company, attempts to find the value of Strategic Education based exclusively on its fundamental and basic technical indicators. By analyzing Strategic Education's financials, quarterly and monthly indicators, and related drivers such as dividends, operating cash flow, and various types of growth rates, we attempt to find the most accurate representation of Strategic Education's intrinsic value. In some cases, mostly for established, large-cap companies, we also incorporate more traditional valuation methods such as dividend discount, discounted cash flow, or asset-based models. As compared to an absolute model, our relative valuation model uses a comparative analysis of Strategic Education. We calculate exposure to Strategic Education's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Strategic Education's related companies.

Strategic Education Investment Alerts

Strategic investment alerts and warnings help investors to get more proficient at understanding not only critical technical and fundamental signals but also the significant portfolio-centered indicators. These indicators include beta, alpha, and other risk-related measures that will help you in monitoring Strategic Education performance across your portfolios.Please check all investment alerts for Strategic

Strategic Education Valuation Ratios as Compared to Competition

Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Strategic value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Strategic Education competition to find correlations between indicators driving the intrinsic value of Strategic.

Strategic Education Gross Profit

Strategic Education Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Strategic Education previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Strategic Education Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Strategic Education's gross profit and other fundamental indicators for more details.

A Deeper Perspective

The entity reported the previous year's revenue of 1.02 B. Net Income was 104.88 M with profit before overhead, payroll, taxes, and interest of 466.53 M.
 2019 2020 (projected)
Consolidated Income31.32 M40.58 M
Direct Expenses530.6 M572.49 M

Margins Breakdown

Strategic profit margins show the degree to which it makes money. Margin indicators are used not only by investors but also by creditors or Strategic Education itself as indicators of financial health and management effectiveness. Please look more closely at the different varieties of Strategic Education profit margins.
9.5
Profit Margin
14.84
Operating Margin
21.11
EBITDA Margin
Operating Margin14.84
EBITDA Margin21.11
Gross Margin52.64
Profit Margin9.5
Strategic Education Average Assets is increasing over the last 8 years. Also, Strategic Education Revenue Per Employee is somewhat stable at the moment.

Our Strategic analysis suggests possible reversion in August

Current skewness is at 0.45. Strategic Education currently demonstrates below-verage downside deviation. It has Information Ratio of 0.04 and Jensen Alpha of 0.14. However, we do advice investors to further question Strategic Education expected returns to ensure all indicators are consistent with the current outlook about its relatively low value at risk.

Our Final Take On Strategic Education

Whereas some firms within the education & training services industry are still a little expensive, even after the recent corrections, Strategic Education may offer a potential longer-term growth to investors. With an impartial outlook on the current market volatility, it may be better to hold off any inventment activity and neither take over nor short any shares of Strategic Education at this time. The Strategic Education risk-reward trade off is not appealing enough to do any trading. Please use our equity advice module to run different scenarios to ensure your current risk level and investment horizon are fully reflective of your current investing preferences in regards to Strategic Education.

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