Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: LAUR) is 23.41% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $11.91 and a high of $17.60 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The LAUR stock was last observed hovering at around $16.65 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.27%.
Currently trading at $16.92, the stock is 9.87% and 11.75% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.9 million and changing 1.62% at the moment leaves the stock 18.10% off its SMA200. LAUR registered 28.11% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 20.86%.
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The stock witnessed a 13.48% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 20.51%, and is 10.95% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.85% over the week and 2.36% over the month.
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) has around 28900 employees, a market worth around $2.58B and $1.55B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 13.48 and Fwd P/E is 11.45. Profit margin for the company is 12.64%. Distance from 52-week low is 42.09% and -3.86% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.60%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 82.34% this year
275.0 institutions hold shares in Laureate Education Inc (LAUR), with institutional investors hold 100.68% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 157.59M, and float is at 129.01M with Short Float at 4.62%. Institutions hold 90.85% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is FMR LLC with over 23.27 million shares valued at $347.71 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.8233 of the LAUR Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 15.11 million shares valued at $225.73 million to account for 9.6232 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 14.75 million shares representing 9.3936 and valued at over $220.35 million, while DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP holds 4.536 of the shares totaling 7.12 million with a market value of $106.39 million.
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Knauer Gerard M., the company’s VP, ACCTG, GLOBAL CONTROLLER. SEC filings show that Knauer Gerard M. sold 1,305 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 03 ’24 at a price of $15.78 per share for a total of $20595.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 16628.0 shares.
Laureate Education Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on May 10 ’24 that del Corro Pedro (Director) sold a total of 5,957 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on May 10 ’24 and was made at $16.31 per share for $97159.0. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 0.0 shares of the LAUR stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 06 ’24, Snow Ian Kendell (Director) disposed off 2,114,928 shares at an average price of $14.64 for $30.96 million. The insider now directly holds 0 shares of Laureate Education Inc (LAUR).
