Earlier this week, the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General published an investigative program advisory report on “Online Education Fraud Rings”. The report was sent to Federal Student Aid (FSA) and...
READ MORE >PAA Research will host a conference call at 2:30PM ET Wednesday October 5th with Deanne Loonin of the National Consumer Law Center, one of the best known and most influential non-profit consumer...
READ MORE >Key Observations from ESI’s 2Q11 Results and Summer Term Enrollment IntakeESI reported a headline revenue and EPS beat for 2Q11, but we think most investors are likely to be focused on the rapid deceleration in new student starts witnessed in the Summer term. Despite the revenue...
READ MORE >For the past six weeks, we feel like we have been “spitting into the wind” when it comes to our bearish call on stocks in the for-profit postsecondary education sector. Despite our best efforts...
READ MORE >Approximately one-month ago, we published a report entitled “Connecting the Dots on ESI’s Increasingly Worrisome Off-Balance Sheet Exposure – The Potential Daisy Chain of Events”. Apparently our comprehensive and detailed...
READ MORE >In the 6 trading days following APOL’s earnings release, the shares of publicly traded for-profit postsecondary education companies have rallied anywhere from 10-20% compared to a modest sell-off of (-0.2%) for...
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SELL/SHORT
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SELL/SHORT
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SELL/SHORT
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SELL/SHORT
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LONG
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LONG
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LONG
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PAIR TRADE
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PAIR TRADE
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LONG
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SHORT
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SELL/SHORT
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PAIR - LONG BGG/SHORT TTC
25%
PAIR - LONG BGG/SHORT TTC
25%
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PAIR - LONG KNL/SHORT MLHR
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LONG
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LONG
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PAIR - LONG CSGP/SHORT LOOP
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LONG
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SHORT
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SHORT
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