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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
K-12 Education Is Changing: Can Stride Lead the Next 25 Years?
Stride, Inc. LRN continues to redefine digital education at a time when dissatisfaction with traditional public schooling is hitting historic highs. In its fiscal third-quarter 2025, this online education provider reported a 17.8% year-over-year revenue jump to $613.4 million—beating estimates by $20 million—driven by a 21% surge in total enrollment. Career learning revenue alone grew 33% to $223.9 million, bolstered by 34% enrollment numbers highlight the structural tailwinds favoring Stride. As highlighted by the company in its fiscal third-quarter earnings call, February Gallup Polls suggest that nearly 90% of parents now explore non-college career paths for their children, and more than 15% have considered full-time online schooling—up sharply from pre-pandemic levels. Stride is actively meeting that demand through its career-focused middle and high school programs, tutoring platforms, and innovations like K12 Zone and geo-based social pods that blend digital and real-world management raised its full-year revenue and operating income guidance for fiscal 2025 and is already on track to surpass its 2028 CAGR targets three years early. Despite a slight EPS miss due to higher share count from convertible notes, Stride's fundamentals remain robust, with adjusted operating income up 47% and gross margin expanding 190 basis points to 40.6%.Yet, challenges remain. State-level enrollment caps and the lack of traction in lower grades could limit upside. Still, if Stride can expand its footprint and capitalize on shifting education preferences, its ambitions to lead the next 25 years of K-12 innovation may not be far-fetched. Can Stride Stay Ahead of Chegg and Coursera in Online Learning? As Stride charts its path for the next 25 years of K-12 transformation, competitors like Chegg CHGG and Coursera COUR are also shaping the future of digital education—albeit through different models. Chegg, best known for its study tools and textbook services, is pivoting toward AI-driven learning support. While Chegg doesn't directly compete in K-12 full-time enrollment, its tools increasingly serve high schoolers preparing for college or workforce credentials. Chegg's push into personalized learning may pressure Stride to deepen its academic support meanwhile, is expanding its footprint in online credentialing and high school dual-enrollment programs. Coursera has partnered with universities and governments to offer scalable, low-cost education alternatives—posing a growing challenge to Stride as career education becomes mainstream in K-12. As Stride strengthens its middle and high school pathways, it must continue to differentiate itself from both Chegg and Coursera to maintain its leadership. LRN Stock's Price Performance Shares of this Virginia-based education company have trended downward 8.3% over the past three months, underperforming the Zacks Schools industry and the S&P 500 index. LRN Share Price Performance Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Stride's Valuation Trend Stride stock is currently trading at a discount compared with the industry peers, with a forward 12-month price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 2.17, as evidenced by the chart below. LRN Valuation Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Earnings Estimate Revision of LRN LRN's earnings estimates for fiscal 2025 and 2026 have remained unchanged over the past 60 days at $7.09 and $7.76 per share, respectively. However, the estimated figures for fiscal 2025 and 2026 imply year-over-year growth of 51.2% and 9.4%, respectively. EPS Trend Image Source: Zacks Investment Research LRN stock currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Stride, Inc. (LRN) : Free Stock Analysis Report Chegg, Inc. (CHGG) : Free Stock Analysis Report Coursera, Inc. (COUR) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Business Wire
5 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Chegg, Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chegg, Inc. (NYSE: CHGG), a leading student-first online learning platform, announced today that it is scheduled to release its earnings results on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, after market close for the second quarter of 2025, which ended on June 30, 2025. Chegg will host a conference call to discuss the second quarter financial results at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) on the same day. To access the call, please dial 1-877-407-4018 or outside the U.S. +1-201-689-8471. A live webcast of the call will also be available at under the Events & Presentations menu. Participants can also access the call using the Call me™ link for instant telephone access to the event, which will be active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. An audio replay will be available from 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on August 5, 2025 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August 12, 2025 by calling 1-844-512-2921 or outside the U.S. +1-412-317-6671 with Access ID 13755135. An audio archive of the call will also be available at About Chegg Chegg provides individualized learning support to students as they pursue their educational journeys. Available on demand 24/7 and powered by over a decade of learning insights, the Chegg platform offers students AI-powered academic support thoughtfully designed for education coupled with access to a vast network of subject matter experts who ensure quality. No matter the goal, level, or style, Chegg helps millions of students around the world learn with confidence by helping them build essential academic, life, and job skills to achieve success. Chegg is a publicly held company based in Santa Clara, California, and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. For more information, visit
Globe and Mail
5 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Chegg, Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Chegg, Inc. (NYSE: CHGG), a leading student-first online learning platform, announced today that it is scheduled to release its earnings results on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, after market close for the second quarter of 2025, which ended on June 30, 2025. Chegg will host a conference call to discuss the second quarter financial results at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) on the same day. To access the call, please dial 1-877-407-4018 or outside the U.S. +1-201-689-8471. A live webcast of the call will also be available at under the Events & Presentations menu. Participants can also access the call using the Call me™ link for instant telephone access to the event, which will be active 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. An audio replay will be available from 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on August 5, 2025 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August 12, 2025 by calling 1-844-512-2921 or outside the U.S. +1-412-317-6671 with Access ID 13755135. An audio archive of the call will also be available at About Chegg Chegg provides individualized learning support to students as they pursue their educational journeys. Available on demand 24/7 and powered by over a decade of learning insights, the Chegg platform offers students AI-powered academic support thoughtfully designed for education coupled with access to a vast network of subject matter experts who ensure quality. No matter the goal, level, or style, Chegg helps millions of students around the world learn with confidence by helping them build essential academic, life, and job skills to achieve success. Chegg is a publicly held company based in Santa Clara, California, and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. For more information, visit
Miami Herald
07-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Google's popular feature hit by another anti-monopoly complaint
Google has come a long way since Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched it in 1998 as a new search engine to compete with Yahoo, AltaVista, and WebCrawler, among others. In just four to six years, Google managed to position itself as the top search engine. Its quick success in those first years is often attributed to its speed, much deeper index, query-specific snippets, and relevance of results. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter Even today, despite the existence of AI and many alternative search engines, Google processes around 16.4 billion searches every day, or 189,815 searches per second. As of March 2025, Google accounted for 79.1% of the global online search engine market on desktop devices. Related: Google's quiet AI win spells trouble for Amazon The company grew to become more than a search engine service provider, offering more than 800 products and services, according to the reports. These include popular products like Gmail and YouTube, and even hardware like Pixel phones and Chromebooks. Like the majority of technology companies, Google has focused on AI over the last couple of years. Earlier this year, it released an app that enables users to run various openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones. It also offers access to Google's popular and powerful Gemma 3n AI model. Image source: Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Competition in the AI world is heating up. About two-thirds of the planet's population uses AI every day, according to a KPMG global study. What's more, 83% believe using AI offers a wide range of benefits. Now, when you google something, you are first offered an AI-powered summary "at the top of Google Search results, aiming to provide users with quick, concise answers to their queries by synthesizing information from multiple web sources," according to AI Overview itself. Related: Google resolves major privacy issue AI summaries were first presented as part of Google's Search Generative Experience (SGE) in May 2024. One year later, the rebranded feature AI Overviews launched in the United States. This was Google's strategic move to compete with AI giants such as Open AI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude, Perplexity AI, DeepSeek, and more. In October 2024, Google extended the feature globally, launching it across more than 100 countries. However, in February 2025, Chegg Inc (CHGG) , an education technology company, sued Alphabet over the AI Overviews, arguing the feature violated antitrust laws. The complaint argues that due to the features' direct answers to users' queries without directing them to external websites, Chegg's platform significantly lost traffic and saw declining revenues. Chegg even announced it is considering privatization or acquisition to deal with the challenges. The lawsuit might be the first case of a single company accusing Google of violating antitrust law through AI overviews, reported Reuters. More Tech Stocks: Amazon tries to make AI great again (or maybe for the first time)Veteran portfolio manager raises eyebrows with latest Meta Platforms moveGoogle plans major AI shift after Meta's surprising $14 billion move "Our lawsuit is about more than Chegg – it's about the digital publishing industry, the future of internet search, and about students losing access to quality, step-by-step learning in favor of low-quality, unverified AI summaries," Chegg's CEO Nathan Schultz said. Now, Chegg is not alone in its anti-monopoly complaints against Google. A group of independent publishers filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google over its AI Overviews. The group also requested an interim action to stop irreparable harm to them, writes Reuters. "Google's core search engine service is misusing web content for Google's AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers, in the form of traffic, readership, and revenue loss," The Independent Publishers Alliance wrote in the document. Related: Microsoft wants to help you live longer Publishers further argue that they can't stop Google's AI from using their material for its summaries without being eliminated in Google's general search results page. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority confirmed receipt of the complaint. A Google spokesperson commented, saying its AI experience allows more questions and therefore provides more opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered. They added that sites gain and lose traffic for various reasons. According to its website, the nonprofit Independent Publishers Alliance advocates for independent publishers. Others who signed the complaint include the nonprofit Foxglove Legal Community Interest Company and The Movement for an Open Web. Foxglove Co-executive Director Rosa Curlin sounded the alarm on the "existential threat" to journalists and publishers posed by Google's AI Overviews. In the end, however, it looks like Google's AI Overview is heading for self-destruction. As it slowly eliminates competition on which it is directly dependent (for AI-generated summaries), it will be left with no quality resources to maintain itself. Related: Oracle CEO sends blunt 2-word message on its business The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
1 Momentum Stock Worth Your Attention and 2 to Question
The stocks featured in this article are seeing some big returns. Over the past month, they've outpaced the market due to new product launches, positive news, or even a dedicated social media following. While momentum can be a leading indicator, it has burned many investors as it doesn't always correlate with long-term success. All that said, here is one stock with the fundamentals to back up its performance and two not so much. One-Month Return: +11.6% Started as a physical textbook rental service, Chegg (NYSE:CHGG) is now a digital platform addressing student pain points by providing study and academic assistance. Why Should You Dump CHGG? Value proposition isn't resonating strongly as its services subscribers averaged 13.4% drops over the last two years Overall productivity fell over the last few years as its plummeting sales were accompanied by a decline in its EBITDA margin Earnings per share decreased by more than its revenue over the last three years, showing each sale was less profitable Chegg is trading at $1.35 per share, or 2.3x forward EV/EBITDA. If you're considering CHGG for your portfolio, see our FREE research report to learn more. One-Month Return: +12.3% Constructing electrical and phone lines in the American Midwest dating back to the 1890s, MYR Group (NASDAQ:MYRG) is a specialty contractor in the electrical construction industry. Why Is MYRG Risky? New orders were hard to come by as its backlog was flat over the past two years Incremental sales over the last two years were much less profitable as its earnings per share fell by 34.5% annually while its revenue grew Waning returns on capital imply its previous profit engines are losing steam At $182 per share, MYR Group trades at 29.2x forward P/E. Read our free research report to see why you should think twice about including MYRG in your portfolio, it's free. One-Month Return: +36.1% Widely regarded as the face of crypto, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is a blockchain infrastructure company updating the financial system with its trading, staking, stablecoin, and other payment solutions. Why Will COIN Beat the Market? 58.2% annual increases in its average revenue per user over the last two years show its platform is resonating with power users Incremental sales significantly boosted profitability as its annual earnings per share growth of 64.5% over the last two years outstripped its revenue performance Robust free cash flow margin of 25.9% gives it many options for capital deployment, and its expanding margin gives it even more flexibility Coinbase's stock price of $352.25 implies a valuation ratio of 27.5x forward EV/EBITDA. Is now the time to initiate a position? Find out in our full research report, it's free. Market indices reached historic highs following Donald Trump's presidential victory in November 2024, but the outlook for 2025 is clouded by new trade policies that could impact business confidence and growth. While this has caused many investors to adopt a "fearful" wait-and-see approach, we're leaning into our best ideas that can grow regardless of the political or macroeconomic climate. Take advantage of Mr. Market by checking out our Top 9 Market-Beating Stocks. This is a curated list of our High Quality stocks that have generated a market-beating return of 183% over the last five years (as of March 31st 2025). Stocks that made our list in 2020 include now familiar names such as Nvidia (+1,545% between March 2020 and March 2025) as well as under-the-radar businesses like the once-micro-cap company Tecnoglass (+1,754% five-year return). Find your next big winner with StockStory today for free. Find your next big winner with StockStory today. Find your next big winner with StockStory today
