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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) Gross margin

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Laureate Education's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 28.6%, up 0.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (28.3%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 12.4% (fiscal 2015) to 28.3% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is below the Education & Training Services industry median of 55.0% and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 34.6%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 28.3% 1.54
FY2024 26.8% 0.21
FY2023 26.6% (0.38)
FY2022 27.0% 1.91
FY2021 25.1% 3.34
FY2020 21.7% 0.04
FY2019 21.7% 0.65
FY2018 21.0% 4.29
FY2017 16.7% 1.19
FY2016 15.5% 3.15

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 27.2% (11.44)
Jun 2026 38.6% 44.60
Mar 2026 −6.01% (41.82)
Dec 2025 35.8% 14.90
39 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 12.4% High 28.3%
Ten-year median 21.7%
Current reading's percentile 85

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare 81.7%
CVSA Covista Inc. compare 57.4%
TAL TAL Education Group compare 56.9%
EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare 54.3%
LRN Stride, Inc. compare 37.4%
LAUR Laureate Education 28.6%
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. compare 0.00%
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare 0.00%
XXI Twenty One Capital, Inc. compare —
Education & Training Services industry median 55.0%
Consumer Defensive sector median 34.6%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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