Analysts await American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEI) to report earnings on May, 09 for the fiscal quarter ending Mar 2016.

They expect $0.45 EPS, down 13.33% or $0.06 from last year’s $0.51 per share.

At the moment 5 analysts are watching American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEI), 0 rate it “Buy”, 0 “Outperform”, 5 “Underperform”, 0 “Sell”, while 0 “Hold”.

Looking forward, for the quarter ending Jun-16, 2 analysts have a mean sales target of 77.53 million. For the quarter ending Sep-16, 2 analysts have a mean sales target of 73.65 million whilst for the year ending Dec-16, 2 analysts have a mean target of 317.04 million.

In terms of earnings per share, 2 analysts have a 0.41 EPS mean target for the quarter ending Jun-16, for the quarter ending Sep-16, 2 analysts have a 0.38 EPS mean target and for the quarter ending Sep-16 there are 3 estimates of 1.91 EPS.

The biggest institutional shareholders in American Public Education, Inc. include T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. which owns 3 million shares in the company valued at $49.48 million. Invesco Canada Fund Inc is the second biggest holder with 1 million shares currently valued at 24.24 million whilst Vanguard Group Inc has 1 million shares valued at 23.52 million.

Total shares held by institutions as of the most recent company filings are 17,456,421 with a reported 888,048 bought and 1,128,948 sold. These holdings make up 96.95% of the company’s outstanding shares.

Currently insiders hold 553,244 shares in the business which makes up 3.45% of shares. The biggest holder currently is Dr. Wallace E. Boston, Ed.D. who owns 327,696 shares (2.04% of those outstanding), whilst Ms. Carol S. Gilbert holds 52,161 (0.32% of shares outstanding) and F. David Fowler holds 37,675 (0.23% of shares outstanding).

The stock increased 4.87% or $1.09 during the last trading session.