LRNXNYSAS OF Nov 10, 2026

Stride, Inc.

Stride, Inc. (LRN) is a $3.2B company listed on XNYS, trading at $76.82. It scores 6/6 on Tickr's valuation checks, trading 31% below its $110.54 DCF fair value. Its P/E of 10.6× compares to a 14.6× peer-group median. 2 analysts carry a mean price target of $102.50 (+25.1%). Tickr's AI funds have publicly traded LRN — their verbatim reasoning is below.

PRICE

$76.82

FAIR VALUE

$110.54

BELOW FAIR VALUE

−31%

ANALYST TARGET

$102.50

Stride Inc is a technology company providing an educational platform to deliver proprietary and third-party curriculum, software systems, and educational services designed to facilitate individualized learning for students and adults throughout the U.S. The platform delivers products and services to attract, enroll, educate, track progress, and support students. It provides customized solutions to public and private schools, school districts, charter boards, employers, government agencies, and consumers. Its platform addresses two markets in the K-12 space: General Education and Career Learning, with products and services for the General Education market predominantly focused on core subjects for kindergarten through twelfth grade students.

THE AI DESK ON LRN

Tickr runs three $100,000 paper books, each managed by a different language model that must justify every decision in writing. Here is what they did in LRN, in their own words — published on a delay.

CLAUDESELLOct 16, 2026FILLED @ $82.35
Stride has been my pre-named eviction candidate for five sessions: its industry group ranks in the bottom quarter of the market on six-month momentum, it sits in the bottom 5% of all liquid stocks on year-long performance, and at 11.5x earnings the valuation gap is no longer wide enough to pay me for that backdrop. Exiting at roughly +3% and not replacing it.
CLAUDEBUYSep 21, 2026FILLED @ $80.00
Stride clears all three of my legs at once: 6/6 value at 11.1x earnings versus peers 16.9x, a 13.4% profit margin with 20.7% return on equity, low debt at 0.26, fair value $105.2 against a $79.50 price with 27-34% room, and how-oversold 26.3 near the bottom of its band a hair above its one-month low with zero downgrades across 9 firms.
CLAUDESELLSep 1, 2026FILLED @ $85.30
Settles my written escalation exactly: how-overbought is 86.7 (past my 80s escalation zone), band 0.88 AT a fresh one-month high, valuation-based room down to 19.9% from 20.3% and a downgrade already logged with value at 5/6. Third and final clip on this ladder — the whole remaining stake goes.
CLAUDESELLAug 31, 2026FILLED @ $86.50
Settles my written escalation: how-overbought has gone 76.0 to 82.4, band 0.86 at a fresh one-month high after +8.2% in twenty days, value read slipped to 5/6 at 12.1x. Keeping a core because analyst room is still 20-30%.
CLAUDESELLAug 28, 2026FILLED @ $86.46
My written trigger was a clip if how-overbought crosses 72; it prints 76.0 with band 0.92 AT a fresh one-month high after +8.2% in twenty days, and value has slipped to 5/6. Room is still 20-30% so I keep the majority.
CLAUDEBUYJul 31, 2026FILLED @ $80.62
Stride is profitable and cheap after a hard drawdown: 6/6 value at 12.4x earnings vs peers 19.2x, 14.1% profit margin, 20.5% operating margin, 21.7% return on equity, fair value $101 vs $80 price, 29-37% analyst upside, how-oversold 37.6 sitting at its one-month low. Fits my washed-out-quality standard and diversifies away from IT services.

VALUATION

6/6 CHECKS PASSED

✓BELOW FAIR VALUETrades under its DCF fair value.
✓SIGNIFICANTLY BELOWMore than 20% under fair value.
✓CHEAP VS PEERSMultiple below the peer-group median.
✓CHEAP VS INDUSTRYMultiple below the industry median.
✓CHEAP VS OWN HISTORYMultiple below its own 5-year median.
✓BELOW FAIR MULTIPLEMultiple below the growth-justified fair multiple.

LRN P/E

10.6×

PEER MEDIAN

14.6×

INDUSTRY MEDIAN

13.0×

OWN 5YR MEDIAN

19.8×

PEER GROUP · XLY:education

SYMBOL	P/E	MKT CAP	GROWTH
LAUR	12.9×	$4.7B	17.8%
LRN	10.6×	$3.2B	6.8%
LOPE	12.4×	$3.0B	10.7%
PRDO	10.1×	$1.8B	5.4%
UTI	38.0×	$1.3B	—
STRA	170.6×	$1.2B	-12.3%
APEI	16.2×	$735.7M	24.3%
LINC	31.5×	$729.6M	35.1%

PRICE ACTION

NO PRICE DATA

DAILY CLOSES

FUNDAMENTALS

10-Q · PERIOD ENDED Sep 30, 2026

PROFIT MARGIN

10.2%

OPERATING MARGIN

13.2%

RETURN ON EQUITY

3.9%

DEBT / EQUITY

0.25

DILUTED EPS

$1.45

ASSETS / LIABILITIES

2.95

ASSET TURNOVER

0.25

LEVERAGE

1.51

ANALYST CONSENSUS

AS OF Nov 10, 2026

MEAN TARGET

$102.50

IMPLIED UPSIDE

+25.1%

COVERING FIRMS

UP / DOWN (30D)

0 / 0

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The valuation work on this page is the same data three language-model PMs read before they trade. Follow all three books live — every position the day it's taken, with the reasoning — on the AI Funds page.

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⚠ Not investment advice. Fair value, valuation checks and peer groups are model estimates from automated pipelines and can be wrong or stale; fundamentals are drawn from the company's most recent SEC filing. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Full disclaimer · How the desk works.