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Laureate Education Inc
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Education & Training Services, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Miami, United States and has 33,900 employees. The company is worth $5.34B and trades at 17.4x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $1.7B in fiscal 2025, up 8.6% from the year before. Net income was $281.63M. The share price is 5.2% below its 52-week high of $40.93. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $17.68M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +286.1% over 5Y.
today you would have $4,791.51▲ +379.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 9 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $33.67 | $18.29 | $13.71 | $9.62 | $12.24 | $14.56 | $17.61 | $15.24 | $13.56 | |
| P/E | 12.1x | 17.8x | 9.5x | 20.2x | 23.5x | 12.1x | — | 4.2x | 8.8x | — |
| P/S | 1.8x | 2.8x | 1.8x | 1.5x |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 17.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 12.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSMTPricesmart Inc | $171.59 | 33.0x | 3.7x | 0.82% | 12.31% | $5.3B |
| OLLIOllie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. | $92.63 | 20.5x | 2.9x | 0.00% | 14.86% | $5.5B |
| TALTAL Education Group | $10.46 | 6.6x | 1.4x | 0.00% | 23.71% | $5.8B |
| AKO.BAndina Bottling Co Inc |
| 1.2x |
| 2.0x |
| — |
| 3.2x |
| — |
| 0.5x |
| P/B | 1.9x | 4.0x | 2.9x | 2.3x | 1.9x | 1.9x | — | 1.4x | — | 1.1x |
| EPS | $1.89 | $1.92 | $0.68 | $0.41 | $1.01 | -$2.93 | $4.23 | $1.73 | -$1.20 |
| Dividend yield | 15.70% | — | — | 5.11% | 15.70% | 62.01% | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 368.29% | — | — | 102.94% | 368.29% | 751.49% | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 16.55% | 16.55% | 18.92% | 7.25% | 5.60% | 17.71% | -59.84% | 77.43% | 32.33% | 2.74% |
| ROE | 16.87% | 23.71% | 30.90% | 11.32% | 8.96% | 16.87% | -26.94% | 33.32% | 17.96% | 5.81% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+16.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 16.1x |
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| 2.50% |
| 23.75% |
| $4.73B |
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