Growth Metrics

American Public Education (APEI) Gross Margin (2016 - 2025)

American Public Education (APEI) has 17 years of Gross Margin data on record, last reported at 54.23% in Q3 2025.

  • For Q3 2025, Gross Margin rose 348.0% year-over-year to 54.23%; the TTM value through Sep 2025 reached 92.41%, up 5384.0%, while the annual FY2024 figure was 79.38%, 2814.0% up from the prior year.
  • Gross Margin reached 54.23% in Q3 2025 per APEI's latest filing, down from 102.88% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Gross Margin topped out at 158.03% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 0.07% in Q4 2023.
  • Average Gross Margin over 5 years is 70.37%, with a median of 61.04% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Gross Margin: plummeted -7463bps in 2023, then soared 15796bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Gross Margin shows it stood at 107.75% in 2021, then crashed by -31bps to 74.7% in 2022, then crashed by -100bps to 0.07% in 2023, then soared by 215503bps to 158.03% in 2024, then crashed by -66bps to 54.23% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Gross Margin were 54.23% in Q3 2025, 102.88% in Q2 2025, and 54.46% in Q1 2025.