Strayer Education

Strayer Education, Inc. (STRA - Analyst Report) recently announced second-quarter earnings of $2.00 per share, topping the previous year’s $1.50 and exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2%. Revenues jumped 29% year-over-year to $125.9 million.

Company Description

Strayer Education provides higher education for working adults, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care and public administration to approximately 46,000 working adult students at 71 campuses in 15 states and Washington, D.C. and worldwide via the Internet.

Robust Earnings

The company recently posted second-quarter earnings of $2.00 per share, topping the previous year’s $1.50 and exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2%. Revenues jumped 29% year-over-year to $125.9 million thanks to a boost in enrollment and a 5% rise in tuition.

Summer enrollment was up 24% to 42,516 students, versus the year-prior 34,176 students.

The company stated that it will open 4 new campuses in preparation for the fall term. The 4 campuses, in addition to the 7 that opened earlier this year, will complete the Strayer’s planned 11 openings in 2009.

Bullish Projections

The solid summer enrollment figures led to Strayer forecasting a third-quarter earnings range of $1.14 to $1.16 per share.

In response, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the third quarter shot up to $1.16 per share from last week’s $1.05.

For the current full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $7.44 per share was increased from $7.27 over the past week.

For 2010, the Zacks Consensus Estimate stands at $9.16 per share, up from last week’s $8.88.