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 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Laureate Education's shares. Their LAUR share price forecasts range from $15.50 to $15.50. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $15.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 49.5% from the stock's current price.
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Laureate Education's stock was trading at $12.24 at the start of the year. Since then, LAUR shares have decreased by 15.3% and is now trading at $10.37.
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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) released its earnings results on Thursday, August, 4th. The company reported $0.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.42 by $0.17. The company earned $385.40 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $373.10 million. Laureate Education had a net margin of 33.26% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 1.12%.

Laureate Education announced a dividend on Tuesday, September 20th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, September 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.83 per share on Wednesday, October 12th. This represents a yield of 72.21%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 27th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous dividend of $0.58.
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Laureate Education issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 18th. The company provided earnings per share (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 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 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (7.62%), Van Berkom & Associates Inc. (2.99%), Snow Phipps Group LLC (3.00%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.69%), Park West Asset Management LLC (1.36%) and State Street Corp (1.36%). Insiders that own company stock include Cohen Steven A/Sac Capital Mgm, Eilif Serck-Hanssen, Jean-Jacques Charhon, Juan Jose Hurtado, Marcelo Cardoso, Michael J Durham, Paula R Singer, Steven Taslitz and Tal Darmon.
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One share of LAUR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.37.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) has a market capitalization of $1.71 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.