Career Education Corporation (CECO) just reported results for the full-year 2017, and they were ahead of every management expectation - even the revised ones that indicated quarterly progress throughout 2017.
For those new to the story, Career Education went public in the late 1990s, and due to management foresight, favorable regulations, and a recession (higher education is generally counter-cyclical), the stock went up and up. On a split adjusted basis, it went from $3 to $70.
In the last recession starting in 2008/2009, the stock went from about $13 to $34 until the former administration's