This Education Stock Suddenly Lost a Investor Amid a Nearly 70% Surge

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Jonathan Ponciano, The Motley Fool

Sat, December 20, 2025 astatine 5:17 PM CST 5 min read

California-based Global IMC sold 50,933 shares of Adtalem Global Education successful the 3rd quarter.
The determination marked a afloat exit for Global IMC, which reported holding nary ATGE shares arsenic of September 30.
The presumption was antecedently valued astatine an estimated $6.48 million.
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California-based Global IMC afloat exited its presumption successful Adtalem Global Education (NYSE:ATGE) successful the 3rd quarter, a determination reflecting a $6.48 cardinal nett presumption change, according to a November 14 SEC filing.

According to an SEC filing connected November 14, Global IMC LLC sold each its 50,933 shares of Adtalem Global Education (NYSE:ATGE) during the 3rd quarter. The estimated worth of the commercialized was astir $6.5 cardinal based connected the quarterly mean price.

Global IMC's Adtalem involvement had accounted for 1.7% of the fund’s assets successful the erstwhile quarter.

Top holdings aft the filing:

NYSE: KGC: $3.76 cardinal (15.9% of AUM)
NYSE: HBM: $3.54 cardinal (15.0% of AUM)
NASDAQ: TSEM: $3.45 cardinal (14.6% of AUM)
NASDAQ: IREN: $3.45 cardinal (14.6% of AUM)
NYSE: EGO: $3.33 cardinal (14.1% of AUM)

As of Friday, shares of Adtalem were priced astatine $100.60, up astir 14% successful the past twelvemonth and lone somewhat underperforming the S&P 500's astir 16.5% summation successful the aforesaid period.

Metric

Value

Price (as of marketplace adjacent Friday)	$100.60
Market capitalization	$3.7 billion
Revenue (TTM)	$1.83 billion
Net income (TTM)	$247.49 million

Adtalem Global Education provides postsecondary acquisition and workforce solutions done Chamberlain University, Walden University, and medical/veterinary schools, with offerings successful nursing, wellness professions, medical, veterinary, and online grade programs.
The institution generates gross chiefly from tuition and fees for grade and non-degree programs, leveraging a multi-segment attack that includes some on-campus and online acquisition services.
It serves students seeking nonrecreational degrees successful healthcare, education, business, and nationalist service, with a absorption connected moving adults and individuals pursuing precocious credentials.

Adtalem Global Education Inc. is simply a starring supplier of workforce-focused education, operating crossed nursing, wellness professions, and aesculapian and veterinary segments. The institution leverages a diversified level of institutions to code request for skilled professionals successful captious fields. Its standard and multi-modal transportation presumption it to service a wide basal of students and accommodate to evolving manufacture needs.

This banal had surged astir 70% earlier successful the twelvemonth earlier rolling implicit sharply, and the exit appears to person landed close arsenic sentiment shifted from enthusiasm to scrutiny. In a portfolio wherever the largest holdings each bid much than 14% of assets, a 1.7% presumption was ne'er a cornerstone. That makes it easier to locomotion distant erstwhile the communicative turns.

In its latest quarter, Adtalem Global Education reported gross of $462.3 million, up 10.8% twelvemonth implicit year, portion adjusted EPS climbed 35.7% to $1.75. Total enrollment roseate 8%, extending a multi-quarter maturation streak crossed Chamberlain and Walden, and adjusted EBITDA accrued astir 16% to $112 million. Nevertheless, shares crashed pursuing the merchandise amid concerns of lighter-than-anticipated maturation and broader marketplace concerns. The takeaway is uncomfortable but useful. Strong fundamentals bash not warrant a creaseless stock, and erstwhile maturation expectations reset, adjacent bully numbers tin halt being enough.