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STRA - Short the Education Bubble
A 33.3 PE is quite a rich premium to pay for am institution that gives out worthless degrees.
Smart money agrees, look at the 25% short interest.
Insiders have also been dumping shares.
I'm short STRA and DV, and may end up shorting the whole for-profit college sector by the time I'm through researching.
There's a Chinese property bubble, and a US education bubble. We all know it. Time to put money down on it.
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I'm with you on the education bubble (as you know: http://steamcatapult.c... ), but we both know that what's fueling it is government loans and grants (e.g., 86% of the revenues of Apollo Group, which owns U. of Phoenix, came from federal student aid last year). Do you anticipate that government largess drying up in the near future?
I expect that the public's acceptance of degree-mills like Strayer will dry up in the near future.
If the government ever does decide to make education funding more efficient, I also doubt there will be much sympathy for the likes of Strayer. There's a good amount of Pell Grant / Loan fraud by for-profits out there, and I'm certain it's just a matter of time before "investigations" begin.