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.
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Laureate Education (LAUR) Piotroski F-score
Laureate Education's Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 7 out of 9: 7 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, down from 8 in fiscal 2024.
Piotroski F-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Piotroski F-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7 | (1.00) |
| FY2024 | 8 | 1.00 |
| FY2023 | 7 | 1.00 |
| FY2022 | 6 | 0.00 |
| FY2021 | 6 | 0.00 |
| FY2020 | 6 | 0.00 |
| FY2019 | 6 | (1.00) |
| FY2018 | 7 | 1.00 |
| FY2017 | 6 | 0.00 |
| FY2016 | 6 | — |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Test | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive return on assets | 13.84% | 14.87% | Pass | 1 |
| Positive operating cash flow | 366.19m | 232.73m | Pass | 1 |
| Rising return on assets | 13.84% | 14.87% | Fail | 0 |
| Cash flow above net income | 84.56m | (63.74m) | Pass | 1 |
| Falling long-term leverage | 0.04 | 0.03 | Fail | 0 |
| Rising current ratio | 0.67 | 0.62 | Pass | 1 |
| No new shares issued | 147,825,000 | 153,273,000 | Pass | 1 |
| Rising gross margin | 28.33% | 26.79% | Pass | 1 |
| Rising asset turnover | 0.84 | 0.79 | Pass | 1 |
| Piotroski F-score | Strong — most fundamentals improved | 7 | ||
How the Piotroski F-score works
One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.
Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:
| 7–9 | Strong — most fundamentals improved |
|---|---|
| 4–6 | Mixed |
| 0–3 | Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated |
Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.
Piotroski F-score against peers
| Company | Piotroski F-score |
|---|---|
| TAL TAL Education Group compare | 8 |
| CVSA Covista Inc. compare | 8 |
| LAUR Laureate Education | 7 |
| PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare | 7 |
| LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. compare | 7 |
| LRN Stride, Inc. compare | 7 |
| EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare | 7 |
| GHC Graham Holdings Company compare | 6 |
| MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare | — |
What Piotroski F-score is
The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.
One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover