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EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION against its own record and its peers
Revenue, on the yearPeer median 0.9%-33.0%Equity of assetsPeer median 29.9%78.8%Return on equityPeer median -4.7%5.4%Gold tick: the median of 21–28 peers with $50M+ revenue in wholesale-miscellaneous nondurable goods
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profitHanded back per share$0Revenue growth it managed-33.0%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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