NASDAQ:LAURLaureate Education Stock Price, Forecast & News

Laureate Education's stock was trading at $16.56 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LAUR stock has decreased by 42.5% and is now trading at $9.52. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Laureate Education in the last year. There are currently 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The company reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.43) by $1.02. The business earned $528.60 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $553.48 million. Laureate Education had a net margin of 26.57% and a return on equity of 9.01%. View Laureate Education's earnings history.

Laureate Education updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 7th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.675-2.775 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.11 billion.

6 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Laureate Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $25.00. On average, they anticipate Laureate Education's stock price to reach $17.08 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 79.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Laureate Education.

News coverage about LAUR stock has been trending extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Laureate Education earned a daily sentiment score of -4.0 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 company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news about Laureate Education.

Laureate Education saw a decline in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 3,720,000 shares, a decline of 7.5% from the June 15th total of 4,020,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,150,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days. Approximately 3.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Laureate Education's Current Options Chain.

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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 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."

Laureate Education's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Laureate Education stock include Alberta Lp Wengen, Jean-Jacques Charhon, 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $9.52.

Laureate Education has a market capitalization of $2.00 billion and generates $3.25 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $938.48 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.07 on an earnings per share basis. Laureate Education employs 50,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Laureate Education is 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]