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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
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Laureate Education (LAUR) Debt to equity

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Laureate Education's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 0.2×, up 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (0.1×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.1× (fiscal 2024) to 13.2× (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Education & Training Services industry median of 0.0× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.1× 2.67%
FY2024 0.1× (39.84%)
FY2023 0.2× (41.88%)
FY2022 0.3× 122.16%
FY2021 0.1× (69.33%)
FY2020 0.4× 7.01%
FY2019 0.4× (69.23%)
FY2018 1.3× (16.18%)
FY2017 1.6× (60.46%)
FY2016 4.0× (69.51%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 0.2× (10.22%)
Jun 2026 0.2× (5.44%)
Mar 2026 0.2× 91.36%
Dec 2025 0.1× 19.16%
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Against its own ten years

Low 0.1× High 13.2×
Ten-year median 0.4×
Current reading's percentile 18

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare 0.0×
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare 0.0×
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. compare 0.0×
TAL TAL Education Group compare 0.0×
LAUR Laureate Education 0.2×
XXI Twenty One Capital, Inc. compare 0.2×
LRN Stride, Inc. compare 0.3×
CVSA Covista Inc. compare 0.4×
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare 2.9×
Education & Training Services industry median 0.0×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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