New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.
EDUNew Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. is coiled. The quarters are improving, yet the P/E sits at the 8th percentile of its own 3-year range — the business is moving before the market.
Biggest watch item: margins are the best this company has ever printed — every ratio flatters at record profitability, so the whole story leans on margins holding.
The price is building a base (15 weeks in) while the P/E sits at the 8th percentile of its own 3-year range. Underneath, the last four quarters read improving — profit +50.0% year on year, and 296% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash. What settles it: the next one or two quarters of delivery.
Price story Before the numbers, the tape. A stock price moves through four repeating seasons: a flat base (stage 1), an advance (2), a top (3), a decline (4). Where the price sits in that cycle frames everything below.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. trades at $50.8, building a base and 15 weeks into that stage. That is −5.6% against its own 200-day average. It sits at 33% of a 52-week range of $45 to $63. On relative strength it is currently behind the S&P 500 on a trailing-13-week view (15 weeks and counting).
Today the stock is building a base — week 15 of stage 1. At $50.8 it trades −5.6% versus its 200-day average and sits at 33% of its 52-week range ($45–$63).
Against the market, two honest reads. Cumulative: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved +22% while the S&P 500 moved +248% — behind the index over the full window. Recent form: on a trailing-13-week view the stock is currently behind (15 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-04-17) — the ribbon below is that same metric, week by week.
What would end the trend, mechanically: two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day line. That is the exit rule — no debates.
→ The trend is one thing; the bill is another. Are you paying up for it? Next: the P/E sits at the 8th percentile of its own range.
Valuation P/E is the price of $1 of annual profit: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar the company earns in a year.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. trades at 19.2× P/E, near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 8% of the time. Its long-run median P/E is 25.4×, measured across 3.2 years of weekly readings. This places the multiple against the stock’s own record, and says nothing about what the business is worth.
Today's P/E of 19.2× is near the bottom of its own range — cheaper only 8% of the time, against a long-run median of 25.4× measured over 3.2 years of weekly readings. This is a comparison against the stock's own history — not a claim about what it is worth.
One caveat before moving on: margins are the best this company has ever printed — cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. If profitability mean-reverts, today's multiple is higher than it looks.
Why the multiple sits where it does: over the past year annual EPS moved +27.8% against a +8.8% price move — earnings outran the price, pushing the multiple DOWN its own range.
The price move, decomposed: over 3y, of the −3.3%/yr price move, ~+33.2%/yr came from earnings growth and ~−36.5 pp from the multiple (compressing). The split is the honest approximate (price return minus earnings growth); it makes the rally itself visible instead of hiding it behind the percentile.
Put together: the multiple is low against its own past, so the story rests on the earnings line underneath it, not the multiple.
→ Cheap or dear rides on the earnings. Are they actually growing? Next: the fundamental stage — where the business sits in its arc, and how growth has compounded.
Stage: Mixed Every business sits somewhere on a fundamental arc, and this page names the spot before anything else. The last twelve quarters of revenue, profit and EPS growth — plus the return the business earns on its capital — are read as curves: Deteriorating (the curves are falling), Turning around (a trough has just formed and the last few quarters lift off it), Improving (the climb off the trough is sustained), Consistent (steadily positive with healthy returns), Topping out (still high but decelerating from the peak). When the curves genuinely disagree the read is Mixed; too little history is No read. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the smooth yearly pace that turns the starting value into the latest one — the fairest way to compare growth across different time spans. Read the columns together: if the 1-year number towers over the 10-year, recent growth is running hotter than the long-run trend. A dash means that window is not held, or the base year was a loss (where a growth rate is not meaningful).
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. reads as mixed on its fundamental arc. Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE holding at 9.3% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read is built from 12 quarters across 4 curves, on full evidence.
Why it matters: when the curves disagree, the per-curve reads above matter more than any single verdict.
| 1yr | 3yr | 5yr | 10yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | +13.7% | +16.4% | — | — |
| Profit | +2.6% | — | — | — |
| EPS | +27.8% | — | — | — |
| Stock price | +8.8% | −3.3% | +18.5% | +1.4% |
→ The stage names the trajectory. Next: the revenue line that produces it, quarter by quarter.
4-Factor Sector Score
41.1/100 — rank 15 of 20 in Education & Training Services · 82% evidence confidence
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. scores 41.1 out of 100 against the 20 companies it is compared with in Education & Training Services, ranking 15. Balanced evidence: keep at normal research priority and require another comparable period before raising conviction.
The four contributions add to the total exactly: 20.1 + 13.3 + 4.6 + 3.1 = 41.1. This is the SAME number shown on the sector comparison — it is computed once, for the whole peer set, and read here.
What would change it: The read weakens if profit growth turns negative or margin improvement reverses while sector-relative strength deteriorates.
Revenue Revenue is the top line: everything the company billed its customers in the period.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. reported $1.4 B of revenue in the Feb 26 quarter, +20.3% year on year. That is the 4th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 3.4% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $4.9 B. The last four reported quarters add to $5.4 B.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. reported $1.4 B of revenue in the Feb 26 quarter, +20.3% year on year. That is the 4th straight quarter of year-on-year growth. Over 4 years it has compounded at 3.4% a year. The last full year, FY25, came in at $4.9 B. The last four reported quarters add to $5.4 B.
FY25 revenue came in at $4.9 B (+13.7% on the year), capping 4 years at 3.4% compound. The latest quarter (Feb 26) printed $1.4 B, +20.3% year on year — the 4th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.
Pace check: the last four quarters averaged +12.3% growth against the decade's 3.4% — the current year is running faster than its own long-run rate.
Acceleration check: trailing-twelve-month revenue grew +11.9% over the last 4 quarters against +15.3%/yr over the last 8 — rolling over; TTM profit +9.3% vs +11.2%/yr — stabilising.
→ Revenue grew — did margins hold as it scaled? Next: 12.7% this quarter (+2.5 pp YoY).
Operating margin Operating margin is what is left of every $100 of sales after running the business, before interest and tax. It is the cleanest read on pricing power and cost control.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s operating margin is 12.7% in the Feb 26 quarter, +2.5 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −31.5% to 8.8%.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s operating margin is 12.7% in the Feb 26 quarter, +2.5 percentage points against the same quarter a year ago. That is the widest this company has ever printed on a full-year basis. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −31.5% to 8.8%.
The latest quarter's operating margin is 12.7%, +2.5 pp against the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 fiscal years the operating margin has ranged −31.5%–8.8%, and FY25's 8.8% is the top of that band — a record year.
Why the margin moved: operating margin went +2.5 pp year on year while gross margin went −1.6 pp — the gain came mostly from the gross line: input costs and pricing.
Worth repeating from the valuation section: cheap against its own history on record margins is not the same thing as cheap — a record margin flatters every ratio built on top of it.
→ Margins held — did that reach the bottom line? Next: profit +50.0% in the latest quarter.
Net profit Net profit is what survives every cost, interest and tax — the number EPS, dividends and book value all grow from.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. earned $0.1 B of net profit in the Feb 26 quarter, +50.0% year on year. It is the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $0.4 B. The 4-year compound rate is 14.1%. That is 10.6% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $0.1 B.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. earned $0.1 B of net profit in the Feb 26 quarter, +50.0% year on year. It is the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $0.4 B. The 4-year compound rate is 14.1%. That is 10.6% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $0.1 B.
Feb 26 profit was $0.1 B, +50.0% year on year — the 3rd consecutive quarter of growth. On the full year, FY25 printed $0.4 B (+2.6%), and the 4-year compound rate is 14.1%.
Why profit moved: revenue contributed +20.3% and the margin +2.5 pp — the quarter was margin-led: most of the profit growth came from keeping more of each sale.
Pace comparison, last four quarters: profit +6.1% vs revenue +12.3%. Profit is growing slower than sales — costs are eating the growth before it reaches the bottom line.
→ Profit rose — but did the cash follow? Next: 296% of the last 3 years' profit arrived as cash.
Cash flow — the router The P&L says what was earned; the cash-flow statement says what actually arrived. Operating cash flow (CFO) against profit is the cleanest lie detector in the accounts.
Over the last 3 fiscal years 296% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s reported profit arrived as operating cash — the cash follows the profit. In FY25 that was $0.9 B of operating cash against $0.4 B of profit. After $0.2 B of capital spending, $0.7 B was left as free cash.
FY25: operating cash of $0.9 B against reported profit of $0.4 B, leaving free cash of $0.7 B after $0.2 B of capital spending. Across the last 3 fiscal years the conversion rate is 296% of profit.
Cash-flow readings here are annual — that is the resolution our series carries, so this section moves once a year.
Why: conversion is measured cleanly, but the working-capital day-counts behind it sit below what we hold — the move is shown without inventing its driver.
Router verdict: the visible cash user is investment — the next section checks what the spending is buying.
→ So follow the cash to where it goes. Next: $1.0 B of building over 3 years.
Where the cash goes Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid: debtor days (customers owe), inventory days (stock waits), and the cash conversion cycle (the whole loop, in days of sales).
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. does not report the debtor, inventory and payable day-counts a cash cycle is built from, so this section reads the investment side instead. Capital spending ran $1.0 B over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 6.8% of FY25 revenue a year.
Working-capital day-counts are not in our numbers for this stock, so this section reads the investment side — where the cash is being put to work.
On the investment side: capital spending of $1.0 B over the last 3 fiscal years.
The synthesis: the cash is going into capacity, not disappearing into the cycle — the question becomes whether the new capacity earns.
→ Does all this activity actually earn its cost of capital? Next: ROE is 11% and the ROIC − WACC spread is +183.5 pp.
Return on equity Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. With the full capital-employed split not in our numbers, ROE is the cleanest long ladder we can draw here.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. earns a ROE of 10% in FY25. That is up from a trough of −31% in FY22. Return on invested capital clears the cost of that capital by +183.5 percentage points, so growth here adds value rather than only size. The wiring behind it is 8.0% net margin on 0.63× asset turns.
FY25 ROE is 10%, recovered from a FY22 trough of −31% — the full ladder below shows the fall and the climb, undoctored.
Why the return is what it is — the wiring (FY25): 8.0% net margin × 0.63× asset turns × 1.98× balance-sheet leverage ≈ 10.0% on equity. Margin does its share; leverage is a meaningful part of the equation.
The capstone test — ROIC − WACC: 188.3% − 4.8% = a +183.5 pp spread. The 4.8% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital — read the sign and the size of the spread, not the decimals. A spread this wide means every dollar reinvested creates more than a dollar of value — the engine compounds.
→ Returns like these — is the balance sheet borrowing to make them? Next: debt-to-equity is 0.18.
Dividend A dividend is cash paid out per share. Dividend per share is the declared amount for the period; the trailing twelve-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. has 1 quarter of declared dividends on file — too few for a trailing-twelve-month figure. The most recent declaration was $1.20 for Aug 25.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. has 1 quarter of declared dividends on file — too few for a trailing-twelve-month figure. The most recent declaration was $1.20 for Aug 25.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. has declared a dividend in 1 of the last 12 reported quarters, most recently $1.20 for Aug 25. That is fewer than four quarters, so no trailing-twelve-month total is shown rather than one built from a partial year.
→ A payout is cash leaving the business. Next: what the balance sheet looks like behind it.
Debt Debt-to-equity says how much of the business is funded by borrowings. Low is the safe corner; the trend matters as much as the level.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. carries total debt of $0.8 B against shareholder equity of $4.4 B as of Feb 26, a debt-to-equity of 0.18 — effectively unlevered. On the annual view that ratio went from 0.43 in FY21 to 0.20 in FY25. The returns elsewhere on this page are therefore earned rather than borrowed.
Feb 26: total debt of $0.8 B against shareholder equity of $4.4 B — a debt-to-equity of 0.18. On the annual view, debt-to-equity went from 0.43 (FY21) to 0.20 (FY25). The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed.
→ Who owns this, and are they adding or leaving? Next: the register.
Ownership There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read here, so we read the crowd through short interest — the slice of tradable shares currently sold short, positioned for a fall.
No ownership or positioning reading is held for New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc., so this section names the gap rather than filling it. At typical trading volumes those positions would take about 6.3 days to buy back. There is no quarter-by-quarter holder register to read for this filer, so the crowd is read through short interest instead.
We hold no ownership or positioning reading for this stock, so this section says that plainly.
→ One last check: does the safety math agree? Next: the balance-sheet safety line.
Safety line The Z-score estimates how far a company sits from balance-sheet distress — above roughly 3 is safe, below roughly 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not applied to banks and lenders.
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.: the Z-score is not available for this stock, so we say so rather than invent one. It is a distance-to-distress estimate from the balance sheet, not a forecast of failure.
The safety line in one sentence: the Z-score is not available for this stock, so we say so rather than invent one.
| Company | P/E | Mkt cap | Revenue | EPS | ROCE | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. this page | 19.2× | $8B | Mixed | |||
| TAL Education Group | 11.4× | $6B | No read | |||
| Laureate Education, Inc. | 19.9× | $5B | Mixed | |||
| Graham Holdings Company | 18.0× | $5B | Deteriorating | |||
| Covista Inc. | 18.4× | $4B | Mixed | |||
| Stride, Inc. | 15.0× | $4B | Mixed | |||
| Grand Canyon Education, Inc. | 18.9× | $4B | — | Mixed | ||
| Universal Technical Institute, Inc. | 51.4× | $2B | Mixed | |||
| McGraw Hill, Inc. | 57.8× | $2B | No read | |||
| Perdoceo Education Corporation | 12.6× | $2B | Consistent | |||
| Youdao, Inc. | 190.6× | $2B | No read | |||
| Strategic Education, Inc. | 14.4× | $2B | Mixed | |||
| Coursera, Inc. | — | $2B | No read | |||
| Lincoln Educational Services Corporation | 58.5× | $1B | Improving | |||
| Afya Limited | 9.2× | $1B | Mixed | |||
| Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. | 14.1× | $1B | — | No read | ||
| American Public Education, Inc. | 26.4× | $1B | No read | |||
| KinderCare Learning Companies, Inc. | — | $1B | Mixed | |||
| Gaotu Techedu Inc. | — | $0B | No read | |||
| JIADE Limited | — | $0B | No read | |||
| Franklin Covey Co. | 119.5× | $0B | Deteriorating | |||
| Legacy Education Inc. | 19.9× | $0B | Mixed | |||
| Neucleus Group Limited | 78.0× | $0B | — | — | — | — |
| Chegg, Inc. | — | $0B | No read |
Frequently asked questions
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s stock price today?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. trades at $50.8, +8.8% over the past year. The company is valued at $8.0 B. The stock sits at 33% of its 52-week range of $45–$63, −5.6% versus its 200-day average. On the tape, the price is building a base, 15 weeks in. — as of 29 July 2026.
What were New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s latest quarterly results?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. reported revenue of $1.4 B and net profit of $0.1 B for the Feb 26 quarter. Revenue rose 20.3% and profit rose 50.0% year on year. Earnings per share were $0.80. The operating margin was 12.7%, 2.5 pp higher than a year earlier. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s revenue?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. reported revenue of $1.4 B in the Feb 26 quarter, +20.3% year on year. For the full FY25 fiscal year, revenue was $4.9 B (+13.7%). Over the last 4 years revenue compounded at 3.4% a year. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s profit?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. earned $0.1 B of net profit in the Feb 26 quarter, +50.0% year on year — the 3rd straight quarter of growth. Full-year FY25 profit was $0.4 B. The operating margin ran 12.7% in the latest quarter. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s market cap?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s market capitalisation is $8.0 B at a stock price of $50.8. Market cap is the share price multiplied by shares outstanding, so it is restated whenever the price moves. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s P/E ratio?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. trades at a P/E of 19.2×, at the 8th percentile of its own 3-year range, against a long-run median of 25.4×. This is a comparison with the stock's own history, not a value call — as of 29 July 2026.
Does New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. pay a dividend?
Yes — New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. declared $1.20 per share for Aug 25 (1 quarter on file, too few for a trailing-twelve-month total). — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s dividend per share?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s most recently declared dividend is $1.20 per share for Aug 25. Each figure is the amount declared for that quarter as reported, added across four quarters for the trailing total. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. overvalued?
On its own history, New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. looks cheap against its own history: its P/E of 19.2× has been cheaper only 8% of the time in 3 years (long-run median 25.4×). That is a percentile read against the stock's own past, not a price opinion or a direction call. One caveat: margins are the best this company has ever printed — cheap on record margins is not the same thing as cheap. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. growing?
Yes — New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. is growing: latest-quarter revenue +20.3% year on year, profit +50.0%, and the margin +2.5 pp at 12.7%. The 4-year compound rates are 3.4% (revenue) and 14.1% (profit). The earnings engine currently reads: improving — as of 29 July 2026.
How is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. performing?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. is building a base, 15 weeks in. Its latest quarter's revenue rose 20.3% and profit rose 50.0% year on year. Against the S&P 500 it has been behind on a trailing-13-week view for 15 weeks. — as of 29 July 2026.
What stage is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. in?
Mixed — no clean majority across the growth curves, ROCE holding at 9.3% — the per-curve reads carry the story. The read comes from the last 12 quarters of growth (revenue growth +11.9% latest, profit growth +9.3% latest, eps growth +6.6% latest) plus the ROCE curve, classified by deterministic rules — a trajectory read, not a buy or sell call — as of 29 July 2026.
Is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. in an uptrend?
No — the price is building a base (week 15 of stage 1), trading −5.6% versus its 200-day average and at 33% of its 52-week range. Price stages cycle base → advance → top → decline, and the stage names where this stock sits in that cycle — as of 29 July 2026.
Is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. beating the market?
Not lately — on a trailing-13-week view New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. is currently behind the S&P 500 (15 weeks and counting; last ahead the week of 2026-04-17), the same metric the week-by-week ribbon on this page draws. Separately, on the cumulative view: over the last 10.1 years the stock moved +22% against the S&P 500's +248% — behind the index over the full window. — as of 29 July 2026.
Will New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s stock price go up?
This page publishes no price forecast for New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. What it measures instead: the stock price is $50.8, the price is building a base 15 weeks in. Its P/E of 19.2× sits at the 8th percentile of its own 3-year range. — as of 29 July 2026.
Does New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. have too much debt?
No — New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s debt-to-equity is 0.18. A year-by-year borrowings ladder is not in our numbers for this stock, so the latest reading is the cleanest hold. The returns on this page are earned, not borrowed — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s capex?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. spent $1.0 B on capital expenditure over the last 3 fiscal years, a figure derived from the change in fixed assets plus depreciation. In FY25 alone that was $0.2 B. — as of 29 July 2026.
What is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s cash flow?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. generated $0.9 B of operating cash flow in FY25 and $0.7 B of free cash flow after $0.2 B of capital spending. Reported profit that year was $0.4 B, so operating cash ran ahead of profit. — as of 29 July 2026.
Is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s profit real cash?
Yes — over the last 3 fiscal years, 296% of New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s reported profit arrived as operating cash. In FY25, operating cash was $0.9 B against reported profit of $0.4 B. The cash then goes mostly into building capacity. Cash-flow resolution is annual — as of 29 July 2026.
Where is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. in its business cycle?
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s FY25 operating margin was 8.8%, against a 5-year band of −31.5%–8.8%: the top of the band — a record year. Record profitability is late-cycle territory: every ratio flatters at the top, and the story leans on margins holding. The latest quarter ran 12.7%. Profitability versus a company's own long band is the cleanest cycle clock this page holds — as of 29 July 2026.
What could break the New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. story?
Biggest watch item: margins are the best this company has ever printed — every ratio flatters at record profitability, so the whole story leans on margins holding. Mechanically, two Friday closes in a row below the 200-day average would end the price trend — that is the exit rule this page tracks — as of 29 July 2026.
Is New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. a stock worth studying right now?
This is not investment advice. The machine read: New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. is coiled. The quarters are improving, yet the P/E sits at the 8th percentile of its own 3-year range — the business is moving before the market. The sharpest open question: the next one or two quarters of delivery. Every number on this page is drawn deterministically from the raw series, with no forecasts and no price opinions — as of 29 July 2026.