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
Dec '16 Dec '17 Dec '18 Dec '19 Dec '20 Dec '21 Dec '22 Dec '23 Dec '24 Dec '25
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
Price to Tangible BV
0.00 0.00 0.00 2.31 2.08 5.16 42.03 17.77 11.40 12.97
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/Operating CF
29.21 26.92 13.60 14.21 12.22 (13.65) 10.02 8.57 12.06 13.53
EV/FCF
10.81 (71.76) 10.10 3.33 3.68 1.10 14.19 11.04 15.69 18.80
Quick Ratio
0.71 0.64 0.70 0.17 1.24 1.42 0.54 0.45 0.53 0.61
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/Assets
56.91% 42.85% 40.46% 17.74% 20.03% 6.95% 11.77% 7.77% 5.39% 5.79%
Debt/Equity
4.03 1.59 1.34 0.41 0.44 0.13 0.30 0.17 0.10 0.11
Asset Turnover
0.46 0.46 0.16 0.18 0.18 0.30 0.59 0.72 0.79 0.84
Operating CF/Net income
0.52 (0.93) 1.04 0.36 (0.42) (0.81) 2.56 2.33 0.79 1.30
Capex/Depreciation
1.19 (1.00) 0.57 3.51 2.69 14.46 (0.59) (0.55) (0.51) (0.93)
Interest Coverage
0.74 0.70 (0.14) 0.29 (3.26) (0.10) 16.45 16.15 20.66 40.44
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
Research and Development Expense of Revenue
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Selling, General and Administrative Expense of Revenue
6.74% 9.46% 23.36% 18.67% 19.49% 18.81% 5.21% 3.54% 2.92% 3.00%
Intangible Assets out of Total Assets
0.47 0.41 0.42 0.18 0.16 0.31 0.37 0.39 0.38 0.36
Share Based Compensation of Revenue
1.18% 1.94% 0.94% 1.07% 1.30% 0.94% 0.71% 0.48% 0.50% 0.78%
Graham Net Nets
(2.44) (1.62) (1.08) (0.74) (0.41) (0.23) (0.59) (0.46) (0.24) (0.14)
Graham Number
16.36 0.00 20.03 35.08 0.00 12.30 6.84 9.32 16.51 18.68
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%
Revenue per Share
24.77 19.33 5.38 5.46 4.89 5.73 7.41 9.44 10.22 11.51
Operating CF per Share
1.44 1.11 1.87 1.53 1.24 (0.82) 1.06 1.59 1.52 2.48
Capex per Share
2.36 (1.53) 0.65 5.00 2.87 11.07 (0.31) (0.36) (0.35) (0.70)
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
Cash per Share
4.91 3.09 2.74 0.44 4.14 1.82 0.56 0.62 0.64 1.03
Shareholders Equity per Share
7.48 11.53 9.64 12.64 10.80 6.01 4.62 6.03 6.24 8.03
Interest Debt per Share
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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
Working Capital
(324.43) (85.89) 27.05 (128.99) 639.23 172.39 (155.19) (228.81) (140.58) (154.56)
Capital Expenditures
314.18 (264.23) 137.76 1,110.40 601.94 2,100.38 (52.29) (56.16) (53.92) (102.75)
Net Current Asset Value
(4,949.32) (4,115.03) (3,501.56) (2,776.21) (1,263.17) (527.43) (971.68) (953.47) (677.60) (700.64)
EV/EBIT
4.37 21.99 0.00 29.44 0.00 0.00 6.62 6.34 7.50 11.49
Capex to Sales
(0.10) 0.08 (0.12) (0.92) (0.59) (1.93) 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.06
Price to Operating Income
1.64 10.79 0.00 23.01 0.00 0.00 6.10 6.14 7.50 11.55
Other line items
Depreciation/Fixed assets
0.12 0.19 0.19 0.49 0.39 0.29 0.17 0.18 0.20 0.18
Cash ROIC
8.93% (1.27%) 9.95% 35.77% 20.88% 118.64% 11.45% 16.09% 15.48% 17.96%
Accounts Receivable Turnover
9.33 9.34 3.86 7.44 9.84 7.04 8.41 13.47 15.19 14.41
Accounts Payable Turnover
28.11 35.39 13.34 14.75 15.36 23.98 26.03 25.32 29.19 26.38
Inventory Turnover
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average Days of Payables
11.35 9.22 26.39 24.38 18.68 12.04 17.23 14.48 11.25 17.09
Days of Inventory on Hand
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average Receivables
353.75 356.79 296.55 162.85 104.17 154.45 147.72 110.15 103.11 118.10
Average Payables
99.22 78.42 67.75 64.39 52.25 33.97 34.86 43.04 39.29 46.23
Average Assets
7,250.79 7,226.88 7,080.46 6,633.03 5,733.66 3,591.10 2,091.77 2,048.93 1,993.84 2,034.21
Average Common Equity
509.91 1,125.84 1,819.11 2,427.55 2,534.04 1,701.75 956.96 861.05 952.44 1,072.25

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