Growth Metrics

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

American Public Education has reported Net Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 7.96% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Net Margin at 7.96% for Q4 2025, up 95.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 3.9% (up 229.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 3.9%, up 229.0%.
  • Net Margin for Q4 2025 was 7.96% at American Public Education, up from 3.41% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Net Margin for APEI hit a ceiling of 9.16% in Q1 2021 and a floor of 73.54% in Q2 2022.
  • Median Net Margin over the past 5 years was 0.14% (2024), compared with a mean of 3.79%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Net Margin: tumbled -7423bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 3773bps in 2023.
  • American Public Education's Net Margin stood at 6.09% in 2021, then plummeted by -171bps to 4.32% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 274bps to 7.51% in 2023, then decreased by -7bps to 7.01% in 2024, then rose by 14bps to 7.96% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Net Margin were 7.96% (Q4 2025), 3.41% (Q3 2025), and 0.2% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.