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.

Revenue
+21.2%
EPS
+220.8%
Free cash flow
+2.65%
Total debt
+100.8%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

33.27 0.02 −0.06%
Market cap
$4.5B
P/E
12.1×
Fwd P/E
15.8×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
4.53
Beneish M
−2.39
Dividend safety
70/100

Laureate Education (LAUR) Current ratio

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Laureate Education's current ratio at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 0.7×, up 0.0× from fiscal 2025 (0.7×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.5× (fiscal 2023) to 1.8× (fiscal 2020); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is below the Education & Training Services industry median of 1.4× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.5×.

Current ratio, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Current ratio Change
FY2025 0.7× 8.95%
FY2024 0.6× 24.80%
FY2023 0.5× (16.52%)
FY2022 0.6× (59.47%)
FY2021 1.5× (18.45%)
FY2020 1.8× 104.71%
FY2019 0.9× (14.29%)
FY2018 1.0× 9.09%
FY2017 0.9× 21.01%
FY2016 0.8× 5.60%

Quarterly newest first

Period Current ratio Change
Sep 2026 0.7× (0.21%)
Jun 2026 0.7× 24.82%
Mar 2026 0.6× (15.31%)
Dec 2025 0.7× (16.53%)
37 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.5× High 1.8×
Ten-year median 0.8×
Current reading's percentile 36

Current ratio against peers

Company Current ratio
XXI Twenty One Capital, Inc. compare 71.0×
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare 4.5×
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. compare 2.6×
LRN Stride, Inc. compare 2.6×
TAL TAL Education Group compare 1.8×
EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare 1.6×
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare 0.9×
CVSA Covista Inc. compare 0.8×
LAUR Laureate Education 0.7×
Education & Training Services industry median 1.4×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.5×
Market median 1.6×

What Current ratio is

Current Ratio shows whether a company’s short-term assets are enough to cover the bills and debts it must pay within the next year.

Current Assets (Total) ÷ Current Liabilities (Total)

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