K-12 Ed. Market Appears Stable

Stock market performance in the for-profit education industry has remained fairly steady in the K-12 sector over the past year, analysts say.

J. Mark Jackson, a senior analyst at Eduventures Inc., a Boston-based market-research firm that tracks education businesses, has been closely watching about 15 companies that do a lot of business in the K-12 world and serve as something of an indicator of the overall health of the market. Of those companies, nine had closed within 80 percent of their 52-week highs as of the middle of last week.

Education companies are “trading within an acceptable range,” Mr. Jackson said. “But...