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Grand Canyon Education Inc (LOPE) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for LOPE, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.23 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How LOPE has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.23 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Grand Canyon Education Inc moved 0.23% on average · correlation 0.07 · higher than 23% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.10 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.75% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.37% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Consumer Defensive · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Consumer Defensive · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against LOPE on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Grand Canyon Education Inc

LOPE in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Grand Canyon Education runs the back-office and academic-support operations behind a set of university partners rather than teaching courses itself. It supplies the learning-management platform, curriculum and faculty development, admissions and financial-aid counselling, marketing, and finance and HR services that let those universities operate online and on-campus programmes. It is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and works with a fixed group of university partners under long-running service agreements.
Where it sits in the stack
Grand Canyon Education carries no seat in our AI build-out index; it sits in our broader universe under Consumer Defensive, in the Education & Training Services sleeve, alongside other outsourced-services providers to schools and universities.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet has not set a peer group for this name; the comparison the market draws is with other for-profit and online-education operators such as Strategic Education.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but does not yet carry a Closelooknet score, and the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the number and terms of its university partner contracts change, since its revenue depends on continuing those agreements rather than on selling to new customers each year.

Grand Canyon Education Inc (LOPE) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by BMO Capital, 2026-10-05

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for LOPE from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target BMO Capital — target 182 from 185 Target cut to $182 from $185 (+17.6% to spot) 2026-10-05

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Grand Canyon Education Inc (LOPE)?

Grand Canyon Education Inc trades as LOPE on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is LOPE in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Grand Canyon Education Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does LOPE trade against its moving averages?

Recovery attempt under the 200-day: Trades +3.8% vs the 50-day and -1.8% vs the 200-day average, 30.3% below the 52-week high and +15.8% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Grand Canyon Education Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Consumer Defensive · United States), Grand Canyon Education Inc (LOPE) sits 30.3% below its 52-week high, 3.8% above its 50-day average; Grocery Outlet Holding Corp (GO) is 32.8% below, Coty Inc (COTY) is 37.6% below, BJs Wholesale Club Holdings Inc (BJ) is 9.6% below. Put any of them next to LOPE in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Grand Canyon Education Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Grand Canyon Education Inc had a beta of 0.23 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 23% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.75% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Grand Canyon Education Inc do?

Grand Canyon Education runs the back-office and academic-support operations behind a set of university partners rather than teaching courses itself. It supplies the learning-management platform, curriculum and faculty development, admissions and financial-aid counselling, marketing, and finance and HR services that let those universities operate online and on-campus programmes. It is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and works with a fixed group of university partners under long-running service agreements. Closelooknet has not set a peer group for this name; the comparison the market draws is with other for-profit and online-education operators such as Strategic Education.

Where does Grand Canyon Education Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Grand Canyon Education carries no seat in our AI build-out index; it sits in our broader universe under Consumer Defensive, in the Education & Training Services sleeve, alongside other outsourced-services providers to schools and universities. It holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but does not yet carry a Closelooknet score, and the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.

What has Wall Street done on Grand Canyon Education Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Grand Canyon Education Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by BMO Capital on 2026-10-05 (target 182 from 185). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for LOPE, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Education & Training Services, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.