Laureate Education - LAUR Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Laureate Education in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" LAUR shares.
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2 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Laureate Education's shares. Their LAUR share price forecasts range from $15.50 to $20.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $17.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 57.6% from the stock's current price.
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Laureate Education's stock was trading at $12.24 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, LAUR stock has decreased by 8.0% and is now trading at $11.26.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 3rd 2022.
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Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:LAUR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 4th. The company reported ($0.04) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.06 by $0.10. The business had revenue of $267.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $245.70 million. Laureate Education had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.12% and a net margin of 33.26%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.25 EPS.

Laureate Education announced a dividend on Friday, December 3rd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 14th will be given a dividend of $0.58 per share on Tuesday, December 28th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 13th.
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Laureate Education issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 11th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.21 billion-$1.22 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.21 billion.

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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 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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Van Berkom & Associates Inc. (2.99%), Swiss National Bank (0.16%), Asset Management One Co. Ltd. (0.11%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.10%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.09%) and Duality Advisers LP (0.08%). Insiders that own company stock include Alberta Lp Wengen, Cohen Steven A/Sac Capital Mgm, Eilif Serck-Hanssen, Jean-Jacques Charhon, Juan Jose Hurtado, Marcelo Cardoso, Michael J Durham, Paula R Singer, Sterling Capital Partners Iii, Steven Taslitz and Tal Darmon.
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One share of LAUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $11.26.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) has a market capitalization of $1.94 billion and generates $1.09 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $192.45 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.09 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.