APEI · CIK 0001201792 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31
AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC
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Model
Z″
FY2025
4.20
Zone
Safe
Prior
—
Market DD
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1y PD
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4.20
Classic Z 2.71
Z″ 4.20 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.
Z″ factor contributions
X1 Working capital / assets
Short-term liquidity. Carries more weight in Z″ than in classic Z.
0.356.56 × = 2.32X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
−0.033.26 × = −0.10X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.
0.096.72 × = 0.62X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.
1.301.05 × = 1.37
Five-year path
Need two annual 10-Ks to draw a path. The desk will pull this issuer’s filings rather than invent a series.
Overview
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AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC is on Z″ at 4.20 (safe) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Working capital / assets is the line that sets the print; book equity / liabilities is the runner-up. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Z″ drops sales/assets so asset-light names are not punished for turnover. X4 is book equity on every name.
Book screen Safe; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.
Market DD · naive Merton
No market tape yet.
Pull a year of closes (Yahoo, Nasdaq if Yahoo is limited) and size equity from Nasdaq cap or EDGAR shares. Distance-to-default and 1-year PD stay blank until then.
Sector peers
Closest Z″ scores · 82nd percentile in Unclassified.
KPI widgets
Current assets
$260M
Total assets
$521M
Current liabilities
$75M
Total liabilities
$227M
Working capital
$185M
Retained earnings
−$17M
EBIT
$48M
Total sales
$649M
Book equity
$295M
Accession 0001201792-26-000004. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 12 Sept 2026.