Apollo pre-announced results fiscal 2Q10 results, lowers estimates
Apollo pre-announced results fiscal 2Q10 results, with EPS from continuing operations lower than our and the consensus estimate. 2Q10 EPS from continuing operations is expected to be $0.77-0.82 versus the consensus estimate of $0.94.
The pre-market announcement apparently is due to
1) higher than expected bad debt expense,
2) greater than expected investments in BP Holdings, the European [...]
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Security Analyst Faults Barron’s Cover Story on For Profits
Security Analyst Faults Barron’s Cover Story on For Profits:
A cover story (http://online.barrons.com/article/SB125755384448934953.html#articleTabs_panel_article%3D1%26articleTabs%3Darticle) this week in Barron’s takes aim at for-profit colleges and universities, saying student graduation rates and default rates are worse than those at traditional colleges, and that student dropout rates are as high as those at public universities.
”For-profit schools like to blame dropouts [...]
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Unlimited programs for $99.00 a month…
Academe may look askance at Straighterline.com, (www.straighterline.com) the commercial service that offers basic college courses online for $99 a month. But the enterprise has lately been getting a lot of press attention, with some education experts seeing it as an harbinger of higher education’s future.
The service, which started last year, allows students to take as [...]
New faculty subgroup on the for-profit edu group
We had received many requests to create a new faculty subgroup within the forprofit edu group on linkedin. So here it is: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2111792/ The group is for any & all current, former or those who want to get a job as faculty.
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Did April buck the seasonality trend?
For the last 7 years the lead flow and search volume have followed a distinct trend of seasonality. This year however April has appeared to buck the trend on search volume. April EDU traffic has surged in many of the top edu related terms, when it normally would have begun to fall off. If you [...]
Low cost/tuition online schools…they have been growing, what are your thoughts of long term prospects?
There have been a number of entrants into the online degree space whose tuition are at significantly lower price points than the majors. Some of these have seen tremendous enrollment growth over the last year to two. In addition, they have remained (in many cases) extremely profitable. What are your thoughts on these low price providers? [...]
EDU stocks trading at low prices & multiples
Take a look at the EDU stocks, now looks to be a good time to buy in at good prices and at multiples as low as they have been in a while. With all the bullish discussion of late the EDU sector has taken a hit. With people/investors being short sighted and thinking, hey if [...]
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Will online masters growth hold up?
After speaking with many analysts over the last few months there are two big fears that keep being repeated. The first being bad debt and the other top fear is the continued growth of online Master programs. The main reasons mentioned are potential future cuts by corporations of tuition reimbursement & continued decline in economy, thus [...]
