NASDAQ:LAUR - Laureate Education Stock Price, Forecast & News

Laureate Education trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LAUR."

Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company reported ($0.42) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.07 by $0.49. The company earned $773.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $781.12 million. Laureate Education had a negative return on equity of 0.22% and a net margin of 28.67%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down .6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted ($0.42) earnings per share. View Laureate Education's Earnings History.

Laureate Education is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

5 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Laureate Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $25.00. On average, they expect Laureate Education's stock price to reach $22.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 25.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Laureate Education.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Laureate Education in the last year. There are currently 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Laureate Education.

Media coverage about LAUR stock has been trending extremely negative on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Laureate Education earned a daily sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Laureate Education.

Laureate Education saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,810,000 shares, an increase of 18.0% from the December 15th total of 3,230,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,390,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Approximately 3.7% of the company's shares are sold short. View Laureate Education's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Laureate Education include GSX Techedu (GSX), Chegg (CHGG), Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Strategic Education (STRA), Graham (GHC), Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Youdao (DAO), Hailiang Education Group (HLG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Career Education (CECO), Arco Platform (ARCE), Bright Scholar Education Holdngs (BEDU), OneSmart International Edun Gr (ONE) and K12 (LRN).

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(LAUR) raised $536 million in an initial public offering 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's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.04%), Sciencast Management LP (0.02%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.01%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.00%) and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Laureate Education stock include Alberta Lp Wengen, Apollo Management Holdings Gp,, 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Sciencast Management LP, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. and New York State Teachers Retirement System. View Insider Buying and Selling 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 $17.65.

Laureate Education has a market capitalization of $3.86 billion and generates $3.35 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $370.07 million in net income (profit) each year or ($0.03) on an earnings per share basis. Laureate Education employs 60,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Laureate Education.

The official website for Laureate Education is http://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]