Growth Metrics

Grand Canyon Education (LOPE) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Grand Canyon Education's Operating Margin history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 35.08% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 89.0% year-over-year to 35.08%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 24.04%, down 262.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 24.04%, 262.0% down from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 35.08% in Q4 2025 per LOPE's latest filing, up from 6.9% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 40.74% in Q4 2021 to a low of 34.83% in Q4 2023.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 22.58%, with a median of 23.43% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: tumbled -6988bps in 2023, then soared 6902bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 40.74% in 2021, then decreased by -14bps to 35.05% in 2022, then tumbled by -199bps to 34.83% in 2023, then soared by 198bps to 34.19% in 2024, then rose by 3bps to 35.08% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for LOPE's Operating Margin are 35.08% (Q4 2025), 6.9% (Q3 2025), and 20.92% (Q2 2025).