Laureate Education - LAUR Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street equities research 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 equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" LAUR shares.
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1 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Laureate Education's shares. Their LAUR share price forecasts range from $15.00 to $15.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $15.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 36.4% from the stock's current price.
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Laureate Education's stock was trading at $9.62 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, LAUR shares have increased by 14.3% and is now trading at $11.00.
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Laureate Education saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,510,000 shares, a drop of 8.4% from the December 31st total of 2,740,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,730,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.5 days. Approximately 2.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 23rd 2023.
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Laureate Education will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 23rd at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:LAUR) issued its earnings results on Thursday, November, 3rd. The company reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.19. The company earned $301 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $293.34 million. Laureate Education had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 2.59% and a net margin of 4.72%.

Laureate Education announced a None dividend on Monday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 4th will be given a dividend of $1.36 per share on Thursday, November 17th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 3rd.
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Laureate Education issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.22 billion-$1.23 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.22 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 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.27%), Clear Harbor Asset Management LLC (0.04%) and Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Cohen Steven A/Sac Capital Mgm, Eilif Serck-Hanssen, Jean-Jacques Charhon, 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 $11.00.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) has a market capitalization of $1.81 billion and generates $1.09 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $192.45 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.34 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 24,000 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 (410) 843-6100 or via email at ir@laureate.net.