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 shares have decreased by 44.3% and is now trading at $9.23. 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 earnings results on Thursday, May, 7th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.43) by $1.02. The business had revenue of $528.60 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $553.48 million. Laureate Education had a return on equity of 9.01% and a net margin of 26.57%. View Laureate Education's earnings history.

Laureate Education updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 7th. The company provided EPS 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 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Laureate Education's stock. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $25.00. On average, they anticipate Laureate Education's share price to reach $17.08 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 85.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Laureate Education.

News coverage about LAUR stock has been trending negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Laureate Education earned a news impact score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news about Laureate Education.

Laureate Education saw a decline in short interest in 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 daily trading volume, of 1,150,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.2 days. Currently, 3.6% 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 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."

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 $9.23.

Laureate Education has a market capitalization of $1.94 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]