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

33.21 1.94 −5.52%
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) Return on assets

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Laureate Education's return on assets over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 16.9%, up 3.1 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (13.8%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −10.7% (fiscal 2020) to 14.9% (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Education & Training Services industry median of 0.00% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.45%.

Return on assets, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on assets Change (points)
FY2025 13.8% (1.03)
FY2024 14.9% 9.62
FY2023 5.25% 1.92
FY2022 3.33% (2.03)
FY2021 5.36% 16.05
FY2020 −10.7% (24.84)
FY2019 14.2% 8.76
FY2018 5.39% 8.25
FY2017 −2.86% (7.97)
FY2016 5.11% 9.19

Against its own ten years

Low −10.7% High 14.9%
Ten-year median 5.25%
Current reading's percentile 82

Return on assets against peers

Company Return on assets
LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc. compare 26.0%
LAUR Laureate Education 16.9%
LRN Stride, Inc. compare 13.8%
PRDO Perdoceo Education Corporation compare 13.7%
TAL TAL Education Group compare 12.2%
CVSA Covista Inc. compare 8.87%
EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. compare 6.02%
MH McGraw Hill, Inc. compare 1.26%
XXI Twenty One Capital, Inc. compare −107.7%
Education & Training Services industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.45%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on assets is

ROA tells an investor how much profit a company earns for shareholders from the assets it uses to run its business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets (latest quarter)

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