Currently, there are 157.59M common shares owned by the public and among those 129.41M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.72% and -1.53% over the past three months. LAUR shares are trading 12.47% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 17.59% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $11.91 and touched a high of $17.60 over the same period. LAUR has an average intraday trading volume of 808.18K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 3.79%, 3.77%, and 8.75% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: LAUR) shares accounts for 86.21% of the company’s 157.59M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.35B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.82. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 12.28, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.26. The company has a PEG of 0.82 and a Quick Ratio of 0.76 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.66. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.87% over the week and 2.55% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) will achieve an EPS of 0.16 for the current quarter, 0.5 for the next quarter and 1.48 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.16 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.16. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.23 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 82.24%, and 9.63% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 15.00% over the next five years, compared to 13.28% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the LAUR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Morgan Stanley stated their Equal-Weight rating for the stock in a research note on July 26, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $17. Jefferies coverage for the Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) stock in a research note released on October 06, 2023 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $20. Morgan Stanley was of a view on August 07, 2023 that the stock is Overweight, while Morgan Stanley gave the stock Equal-Weight rating on May 08, 2023, issuing a price target of $14- $15. Morgan Stanley on their part issued Overweight rating on June 24, 2020.
