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New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - June 11, 2020) - Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, reminds investors in Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOPE) ("Grand Canyon" or the "Company") of the July 13, 2020 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
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The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on behalf of all those who purchased Grand Canyon common stock between January 5, 2018 and January 27, 2020 (the "Class Period"). The case, The City of Hialeah Employees' Retirement System v. Grand Canyon Education, Inc. et al., No. 1:20-cv-00639 was filed on May 12, 2020, and has been assigned to Judge Maryellen Noreika.
The lawsuit focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by making false and/or misleading statements and/or failing to disclose that: (1) Grand Canyon University ("GCU") was not a proper non-profit organization as it remained under the control of Grand Canyon, (ii) Grand Canyon was not a third-party service provider to GCU but rather continued to effectively operate the entity, (iii) Grand Canyon employees served as executives of GCU, and (iv) GCU functioned as an off-balance-sheet entity to which Grand Canyon was able to funnel expenses and costs in exchange for a disproportionate amount of revenue, thereby inflating Grand Canyon's financial results.
On September 9, 2019, short seller Citron Research published a report examining Grand Canyon's financials and concluding that the Company "is stuffing GCU with expenses to inflate its own profitability and as a result bankrupting GCU."
On this news, the Company's stock price fell from $114.47 per share on September 9, 2019 to $109.62 per share on September 10, 2019: a $4.85 or 4.24% drop.
Then, after the close of market on November 6, 2019, the Company announced that it had received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education ("DOE") denying its application for designation of GCU as a non-profit.