Laureate Education (LAUR) Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Laureate Education in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" LAUR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LAUR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Laureate Education's shares. Their LAUR share price forecasts range from $15.00 to $15.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $15.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.1% from the stock's current price.
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Laureate Education's stock was trading at $9.62 at the start of the year. Since then, LAUR shares have increased by 28.8% and is now trading at $12.39.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 3rd 2023.
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Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:LAUR) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 4th. The company reported ($0.17) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $251.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $233.94 million. Laureate Education had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.62% and a net margin of 6.78%.

Laureate Education declared a None dividend on Monday, October 24th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 4th will be paid a dividend of $1.36 per share on Thursday, November 17th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 3rd.
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Laureate Education issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 4th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.41 billion-$1.43 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.36 billion.

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(LAUR) raised $536 million in an IPO on Wednesday, February 1st 2017. The company issued 29,000,000 shares at $17.00-$20.00 per share. Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Macquarie Capital, J.P. Morgan, BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup, KKR and Goldman Sachs served as the underwriters for the IPO and Baird, Barrington Research, Piper Jaffray, Stifel, William Blair, Bradesco BBI and BTG Pactual were co-managers.

Laureate Education trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LAUR."

Laureate Education's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (10.25%), BlackRock Inc. (8.55%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (4.28%), Wellington Management Group LLP (3.19%), Boston Partners (2.44%) and State Street Corp (1.79%). Insiders that own company stock include Cohen Steven A/Sac Capital Mgm, Eilif Serck-Hanssen, Kkr Group Partnership LP, Marcelo Cardoso, Michael J Durham and Tal Darmon.
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Shares of LAUR stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of LAUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.39.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) has a market capitalization of $1.95 billion and generates $1.24 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $69.57 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.52 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 35,000 workers across the globe.

Laureate Education's mailing address is 650 S. Exeter Street, Baltimore MD, 21202. The official website for the company is www.laureate.net. The company can be reached via phone at (786) 209-3368 or via email at ir@laureate.net.