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Fair value pending

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Market cap

4.6B

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Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E16

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E17.3

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE28.8

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC18.9

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All LAUR market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

252

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Currency

USD

Showing 252 of 252 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000912766
Company name	Laureate Education, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	518613203
Employees	33,900
Employees Change	2,100%
Employees Change Percent	6.6
Enterprise value	$5.2B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Education & Training Services
IPO Date	2017-02-01
Isin	US5186132032
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$4.6B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$32.81
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	51,279.65x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	8200
Symbol	LAUR
Website	https://www.laureate.net

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	6.09%
EV Earnings	18.45x
EV Sales Forward	2.62x
EV/EBIT	12.38x
EV/EBITDA	10.36x
EV/FCF	19.57x
EV/Sales	2.97x
FCF yield	5.74%
Forward P/E	15.96x
P/B ratio	4.38x
P/E ratio	17.32x
P/S ratio	2.64x
PE Ratio10 Y	22.29x
PE Ratio3 Y	16.08x
PE Ratio5 Y	15.35x
PEG ratio	0.94x
PS Forward	2.34x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	23.97%
EBITDA Margin	28.63%
FCF margin	15.16%
Gross margin	36.97%
Gross Profit	$642.6M
Gross Profit Growth	13.49%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	11.41%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.88%
Net Income	$279.5M
Net Income Growth	-2.85%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	47.46%
Pretax Margin	22.5%
Profit Margin	16.08%
Profit Per Employee	$8,246
Profitable Years	5
ROA	12.59
Roa5y	8.93
ROCE	23.07
ROE	28.82
Roe5y	12.15
ROIC	18.95
Roic5y	12.03

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr1y	43.5%
Cagr3y	41.05%
Cagr5y	38.24%
Div CAGR3	0%
EPS Growth	-0.22
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	52.84
FCF Growth	33.98%
FCF Growth Q	0.82%
FCF Growth3 Y	41.29%
FCF Growth5 Y	4.39%
OCF Growth	43.9%
OCF Growth Q	7.19%
OCF Growth10 Y	8.17%
OCF Growth3 Y	34.91%
OCF Growth5 Y	6.18%
Revenue Growth	13.81x
Revenue Growth Q	15.43x
Revenue Growth Quarters	4x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	10.63x
Revenue Growth5 Y	11.09x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.84
Assets	$2.3B
Cash	$157.4M
Current Assets	$270.6M
Current Liabilities	$474.7M
Debt	$722.7M
Debt EBITDA	$1.26
Debt Equity	$0.69
Debt FCF	$2.74
Equity	$1B
Interest Coverage	36.45
Liabilities	$1.2B
Long Term Assets	$2B
Long Term Liabilities	$756.9M
Net Cash	$-565.4M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-12.31
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.14
Net Debt Equity	$0.54
Net Debt FCF	$2.14
Tangible Book Value	$248.4M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$1.77
WACC	6.03

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.57
Net Working Capital	$-256.4M
Quick ratio	0.49
Working Capital	$-204.1M
Working Capital Turnover	$-9.35

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	2.76%
Dividend per share	$0
Dividend Yield	0%
Last Dividend	$0.7

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
1Y total return	43.46%
200-day SMA	31.24
3Y total return	180.68%
50-day SMA	33.2
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	404.81%
All Time High	37.91
All Time High Change	-13.45%
All Time High Date	2026-02-19
All Time Low	7.3
All Time Low Change	349.45%
All Time Low Date	2020-03-19
ATR	1.11
Beta	0.46
Beta1y	0.3
Beta2y	0.66
Ch YTD	-2.55
High	32.93
High52	37.91
High52 Date	2026-02-19
High52ch	-13.45%
Low	31.91
Low52	21.16
Low52 Date	2025-06-09
Low52ch	55.06%
Ma50ch	-1.16%
Price vs 200-day SMA	5.03%
RSI	51.55
RSI Monthly	65.78
RSI Weekly	52.82
Sharpe ratio	1.19x
Sortino ratio	1.92
Total Return	2.76%
Tr YTD	-2.55
Tr1m	-4.34%
Tr1w	5.03%
Tr3m	-6.28%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	4
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$41.5
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$-0.21
Earnings Revenue Estimate	265,459,416x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	12.39x
Operating Income	$416.8M
Operating Income Growth	19.19
Operating Income Growth3 Y	14.76
Operating Income Growth5 Y	22.94
Operating margin	23.97
Price target	$40
Price Target Change	$21.91
Price Target Change Top	$26.49

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	125,620,544%
Float Percent	89.74%
Net Borrowing	61,037,000
Shares Insiders	1.34%
Shares Institutions	101.76%
Shares Out	139,978,289
Shares Qo Q	-3.2%
Shares Yo Y	-2.76%
Short Float	4.5%
Short Ratio	2.31
Short Shares	4.04

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$250.1M
Average Volume	1,392,319.25x
Bv Per Share	7.49
CAPEX	$-106.8M
Ch1m	-4.34
Ch1w	5.03
Ch1y	43.46
Ch3m	-6.28
Ch3y	166.3
Ch5y	134.9
Ch6m	7.96
Change	1.99%
Change From Open	1.99
Close	32.17
Days Gap	0
Depreciation Amortization	81,001,000
Dollar Volume	30,985,304.7
Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$416.8M
EBITDA	$497.8M
EPS	$1.89
F Score	5
FCF	$263.6M
FCF EV Yield	5.11x
FCF Per Share	$1.88
Financing CF	-229,121,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,989
Goodwill	635,213,000
Graham Number	17.86008
Graham Upside	-45.57
Income Tax	$109.1M
Investing CF	-106,391,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-19
Lynch Fair Value	$47.31
Lynch Upside	44.2
Ma150	32.58
Ma150ch	0.7%
Ma20	32.31
Ma20ch	1.54%
Net CF	46,079,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-30
Open	32.17
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	17.42
P OCF Ratio	12.4
Position In Range	88.24
Post Close	32.81
Postmarket Change Percent	-1.92
Postmarket Price	$32.18
Ppne	1,087,240,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$9.23
Ptbv Ratio	18.49
Relative Volume	0.68x
Revenue	1,738,380,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.78x
Share Based Comp	13,495,000
Tax By Revenue	6.27x
Tax Rate	27.89%
Tr6m	7.96%
Us State	Florida
Volume	944,386
Z Score	3.47

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Moat score

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Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does LAUR pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

LAUR stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns LAUR?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+101.8%

Float: +89.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+1.3%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

LAUR momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

51.6

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+5.0%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.46

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

1.19

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

LAUR vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	Vendere
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	Acquisto forte
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	Mantenere

Questions

About LAUR

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What is the current LAUR stock rating?

Laureate Education, Inc. is currently shown with the latest rating in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full LAUR analysis?

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What fair-value range is used for LAUR?

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