Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: LAUR) is 62.83% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $13.60 and a high of $24.42 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 $24.26 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.41%.
Currently trading at $23.85, the stock is 3.60% and 5.84% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.47 million and changing -1.67% at the moment leaves the stock 22.49% off its SMA200. LAUR registered 30.43% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 31.22%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $22.5393 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $19.474325.
The stock witnessed a 8.83% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 30.07%, and is 1.60% 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 2.82% over the week and 2.46% over the month.
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) has around 31800 employees, a market worth around $3.55B and $1.53B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.71 and Fwd P/E is 13.12. Profit margin for the company is 18.84%. Distance from 52-week low is 75.40% and -2.31% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (22.66%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 22.32% this year
362.0 institutions hold shares in Laureate Education Inc (LAUR), with institutional investors hold 105.19% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 148.81M, and float is at 127.02M with Short Float at 1.81%. Institutions hold 95.25% 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 15.1281 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 9.821 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 14.75 million shares representing 9.5867 and valued at over $220.35 million, while DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP holds 4.6293 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 Buskirk Richard M., the company’s SVP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. SEC filings show that Buskirk Richard M. sold 7,232 shares of the company’s common stock on May 08 ’25 at a price of $22.83 per share for a total of $0.17 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.28 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 18 ’25, Cardoso Marcelo (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER) disposed off 6,942 shares at an average price of $19.13 for $0.13 million. The insider now directly holds 381,165 shares of Laureate Education Inc (LAUR).
