Laureate Education

LAUR Consumer Defensive Education & Training Services

Laureate Education’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.7 billion, up 8.64% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 17.5%, EPS grew 50.8%, free cash flow grew 37.7% and total debt rose 93.9%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue growth for five consecutive years.

38.61 0.43 −1.10%
Market cap
$5.4B
P/E
17.2×
Fwd P/E
15.8×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
4.53
Beneish M
−2.39
Dividend safety
70/100
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Piotroski F-Score
6 6 7 6 6 6 6 7 8 7
P/E ratio
4.84 0.00 8.24 4.21 0.00 10.93 21.84 20.67 9.43 17.45
P/S ratio
0.48 0.76 2.83 1.70 2.97 2.14 1.33 1.40 1.79 2.92
Altman Z-Score
— 0.62 0.46 0.91 0.77 1.89 1.82 2.22 3.49 4.53
Altman Z″-Score (non-manufacturers)
(0.33) 0.11 0.20 0.92 1.16 1.64 1.15 1.27 2.48 2.69
P/FCF ratio
4.06 0.00 6.07 2.60 3.53 1.19 13.09 10.69 15.68 18.89
P/Operating CF
(177.79) (129.52) 80.09 137.22 80.54 (11.05) 69.99 32.84 68.89 53.30
Beneish M-Score
(2.40) (2.63) (2.87) (3.23) (2.49) (2.32) (2.93) (2.71) (2.35) (2.39)
P/B ratio
3.05 1.60 1.58 1.35 1.34 2.04 2.13 2.20 2.93 4.19
Dividend Safety Score
— — — — — — — — — 70
EV/Sales
1.27 1.55 4.72 2.17 3.10 1.96 1.44 1.45 1.79 2.91
EV/EBITDA
3.60 10.35 25.32 10.06 0.00 15.15 4.98 4.86 5.86 9.14
EV/FCF
10.81 (71.76) 10.10 3.33 3.68 1.10 14.19 11.04 15.69 18.80
Current Ratio
0.77 0.94 1.02 0.88 1.79 1.46 0.59 0.50 0.62 0.67
Net Debt/EBITDA
6.06 5.27 10.11 3.00 (1.22) (1.36) 0.39 0.15 0.01 (0.04)
Debt/Equity
4.03 1.59 1.34 0.41 0.44 0.13 0.30 0.17 0.10 0.11
ROE
72.62% (18.39%) 20.96% 38.65% (24.20%) 11.30% 7.27% 12.50% 31.13% 26.27%
ROA
5.11% (2.86%) 5.39% 14.15% (10.69%) 5.36% 3.33% 5.25% 14.87% 13.84%
ROIC
4.16% 3.18% (0.40%) 0.58% (8.60%) (0.31%) 18.49% 20.84% 24.36% 23.17%
Return on Tangible Assets
20.27% (15.99%) 29.28% 183.39% (50.36%) 28.63% 18.89% 32.27% 79.34% 59.41%
Average Days of Receivables
40.27 38.25 77.75 24.66 45.03 61.29 33.19 26.40 23.04 29.45
Earnings Yield
20.66% (8.90%) 12.14% 23.74% (20.05%) 9.15% 4.58% 4.84% 10.61% 5.73%
Free Cash Flow Yield
24.61% (2.84%) 16.49% 38.43% 28.30% 83.74% 7.64% 9.35% 6.38% 5.29%
Free Cash Flow per Share
3.80 (0.42) 2.51 6.53 4.11 10.25 0.75 1.24 1.17 1.78
Book value per Share
7.48 11.53 9.64 12.64 10.80 6.01 4.62 6.03 6.24 8.03
Free Cash Flow
506.44 (72.07) 534.62 1,450.17 861.50 1,944.29 125.94 194.62 178.81 263.44
EV/EBIT
4.37 21.99 0.00 29.44 0.00 0.00 6.62 6.34 7.50 11.49
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