American Public Education, Inc. SEC filings document operating results, education-unit performance, capital-structure changes, governance matters and material-event disclosures for its postsecondary education business. Form 8-K reports cover quarterly and annual results, guidance updates, exhibits to earnings releases, and operational matters tied to enrollment, course registrations and government tuition-assistance exposure.
Proxy and governance filings address shareholder voting matters, board and executive compensation disclosures, and related corporate governance topics. Capital-structure filings include amendments to the company's charter and security-holder rights matters, including the elimination of the Series A Senior Preferred Stock designation following the preferred equity redemption.
Redwood Capital affiliates and Ruben Kliksberg report beneficial ownership of 705,379 shares of American Public Education, Inc. common stock, representing approximately 3.9% of the class. Each reporting person discloses no sole voting or dispositive power and instead reports shared voting and shared dispositive power for 705,379 shares, and the filing is submitted as a Schedule 13G/A.
All securities reported are stated to be directly owned by advisory clients of Redwood Capital Management, LLC, and the filing specifies that none of those clients is known to beneficially own more than 5% of the class. The reporting persons disclaim beneficial ownership except to the extent of any pecuniary interest and state the holdings were not acquired to change or influence control of the issuer. The filing lists the filers' organizational jurisdictions (Delaware, Cayman Islands, United States) and addresses for contact purposes.
American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) filed a Form 144 reporting a proposed sale of 56,620 common shares with an aggregate market value of $1,660,222.00, to be sold on 08/08/2025 on Nasdaq. The filing shows the 56,620 shares were acquired entirely through compensation-related events: a 25,000-share stock option exercise on 03/20/2023 and multiple restricted stock unit lapses between 05/10/2020 and 05/19/2025 that sum to the same total. The company reports 18,067,134 shares outstanding, so the proposed sale equals approximately 0.31% of outstanding shares. The filer states Nothing to Report for securities sold in the past three months.
Bank of America Corporation reports beneficial ownership of 808,973 shares of American Public Education, Inc. common stock, equal to 4.5% of the class. The filing shows shared voting and shared dispositive power over 808,973 shares and records no sole voting or dispositive power. The statement is made on behalf of Bank of America and its wholly owned subsidiaries, including BofA Securities, Bank of America N.A., and Merrill Lynch International. The filer certifies these shares are held in the ordinary course of business and not to change or influence control of the issuer.
American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) Form 4: On 08/04/2025, Interim Chief Innovation & Technology Officer James Kenigsberg was granted 18,673 restricted stock units (RSUs) of APEI common stock at a cost basis of $0 under the company’s 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan. The RSUs vest in three equal annual instalments beginning one year after the grant date. After the award, Kenigsberg’s direct beneficial ownership increased to 41,888 shares. No sales, derivative transactions or additional acquisitions were reported.
American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: APEI) has eliminated its Series A Senior Preferred Stock. On 23 June 2025 the company filed a Certificate of Elimination with the Delaware Secretary of State, removing all provisions related to the preferred shares from its Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The elimination follows the full redemption of the outstanding preferred shares on the same date.
Redemption terms: the company repurchased all 400 preferred shares at $111,137.88 per share, a figure that includes $3,415.91 of accrued and unpaid dividends per share. Total cash consideration amounted to $44,455,152, of which $1,366,364 represented accumulated dividends.
The transaction removes the preferred class from APEI’s capital structure and extinguishes any future dividend obligations associated with the series. Exhibit 3.1 to the Form 8-K contains the filed Certificate of Elimination, and Exhibit 104 provides the inline XBRL cover-page data.