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 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" LAUR shares.
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1 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Laureate Education's stock. Their LAUR share price forecasts range from $17.00 to $17.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $17.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.8% 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 43.9% and is now trading at $13.84.
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Laureate Education saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,870,000 shares, an increase of 8.0% from the August 31st total of 4,510,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 785,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.2 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 2nd 2023.
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Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:LAUR) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 3rd. The company reported $0.35 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The firm earned $462.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $435.16 million. Laureate Education had a net margin of 7.34% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.70%.

Laureate Education declared a None dividend on Monday, October 24th. Investors 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 (NASDAQ:LAUR) pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.00%. The dividend payout ratio is 115.25%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, LAUR will have a dividend payout ratio of 68.69% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Laureate Education issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.48 billion-$1.50 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.42 billion.

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(LAUR) raised $536 million in an initial public offering on Wednesday, February 1st 2017. The company issued 29,000,000 shares at a price of $17.00-$20.00 per share. Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Macquarie Capital, J.P. Morgan, BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup, KKR and Goldman Sachs acted 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."

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One share of LAUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $13.84.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) has a market capitalization of $2.18 billion and generates $1.36 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $69.57 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.59 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.