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. Since then, LAUR shares have decreased by 41.2% and is now trading at $9.73. 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 1 hold rating and 5 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 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 27th. The company reported $0.28 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.47 by $0.19. The company had revenue of $883.20 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $881.75 million. Laureate Education had a return on equity of 9.01% and a net margin of 26.57%. Laureate Education's revenue for the quarter was down 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.31 EPS. View Laureate Education's earnings history.

Laureate Education issued an update on 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 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Laureate Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $13.50 to $25.00. On average, they anticipate Laureate Education's stock price to reach $17.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 76.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Laureate Education.

Press coverage about LAUR stock has trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Laureate Education earned a coverage optimism score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the company a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutLaureate Education.

Laureate Education saw a drop in short interest during the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 2,540,000 shares, a drop of 9.9% from the April 15th total of 2,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,390,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.8 days. Currently, 2.5% of the company's 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 $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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (3.80%), Van Berkom & Associates Inc. (3.39%), Park West Asset Management LLC (2.48%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.94%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (1.44%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (1.20%). 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 sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wellington Management Group LLP, Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Atom Investors LP, BlackRock Inc., Martingale Asset Management L P, Invesco Ltd., and Morgan Stanley. Company insiders that have sold Laureate Education company stock in the last year include Alberta Lp Wengen, Juan Jose Hurtado, Paula R Singer, Saric Ruldolf Christophe Hoehn, Sterling Capital Partners Iii, and Steven Taslitz. View insider buying and selling activity for Laureate Education.

LAUR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Park West Asset Management LLC, Van Berkom & Associates Inc., Newfoundland Capital Management, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Van ECK Associates Corp, Deutsche Bank AG, and JPMorgan Chase & Co.. 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 $9.73.

Laureate Education has a market capitalization of $2.04 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]