NASDAQ:LAUR - Laureate Education Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 27th. The company reported $0.28 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.47 by $0.19. The firm earned $883.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $881.75 million. Laureate Education had a net margin of 28.67% and a negative return on equity of 0.22%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 1.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.31 earnings per share. View Laureate Education's Earnings History.

Laureate Education is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education issued an update on its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.13-3.17 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.3 billion.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Laureate Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $28.00. On average, they expect Laureate Education's share price to reach $24.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 31.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Laureate Education.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Laureate Education in the last year. There are currently 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Laureate Education.

Headlines about LAUR stock have been trending extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Laureate Education earned a news sentiment score of -4.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education saw a drop in short interest in the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 2,830,000 shares, a drop of 22.7% from the January 30th total of 3,660,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,370,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Currently, 2.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Laureate Education's Current Options Chain.

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(LAUR) raised $536 million in an initial public offering (IPO) 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 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's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (7.22%), Fir Tree Capital Management LP (1.89%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (1.47%), State Street Corp (1.06%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (0.96%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (0.90%). Company insiders that own Laureate Education stock include Alberta Lp Wengen, Apollo Management Holdings Gp,, Jose Roberto Loureiro, Juan Jose Hurtado, Marcelo Cardoso, Paula R Singer, Ricardo M Berckemeyer, Saric Ruldolf Christophe Hoehn, Sterling Capital Partners Iii and Steven Taslitz. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Laureate Education.

LAUR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Melvin Capital Management LP, SG Capital Management LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Loews Corp, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Mackay Shields LLC and Loomis Sayles & Co. L P. Company insiders that have sold Laureate Education company stock in the last year include Alberta Lp Wengen, Jose Roberto Loureiro, Juan Jose Hurtado, Marcelo Cardoso, Paula R Singer, Ricardo M Berckemeyer, Saric Ruldolf Christophe Hoehn, Sterling Capital Partners Iii and Steven Taslitz. View Insider Buying and Selling for Laureate Education.

LAUR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Fir Tree Capital Management LP, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Van ECK Associates Corp, Man Group plc, State Street Corp and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for Laureate Education.

Shares of LAUR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of LAUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.25.

Laureate Education has a market capitalization of $3.99 billion and generates $3.35 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $370.07 million in net income (profit) each year or ($0.03) on an earnings per share basis. Laureate Education employs 60,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Laureate Education.

The official website for Laureate Education is http://www.laureate.net/.

Laureate Education's mailing address is 650 S. Exeter Street, Baltimore MD, 21202. The company can be reached via phone at 410-843-6100 or via email at [email protected]