Investopedia: Archipelago Learning In Detentino, But Still On Course To Graduate

Offering money-saving solutions for K-12 education is usually a pretty good business plan, but perhaps not so much in those times where state budgets and standards are in flux. While Archipelago Learning (Nasdaq:ARCL) offers attractive cloud-based supplemental education products, the company is seeing business slow a bit, due to those macro factors. While this company certainly carries above-average risk, it also offers above-average potential for risk-tolerant growth investors.

Still Growing, But...  
The recent issue with Archipelago isn't that it's no longer growing, but that its growth rate has declined recently. While the company was posting 30%+ year-on-year growth rates early in 2011, that growth has declined to the point where sell-side analysts expect only single-digit growth for the fourth quarter (to be reported in March).

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