Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR)
Consumer · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Laureate Education, Inc. trades at $38.16, which is 56% below the $59.41 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 68 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 19.2 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
LAUR dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $0.700 | 1 |
| 2022 | $1.51 | 2 |
| 2021 | $7.59 | 2 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
LAUR earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 6 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Laureate Education, Inc.
Laureate Education, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers higher education programs and services to students through a portfolio of higher education institutions in Mexico, Peru, and the United States. The company offers a range of undergraduate, graduate, and specialized degree programs in the areas of medicine and health sciences, engineering and information technology, and business and management through campus-based, online, and hybrid programs. It also operates universities and technical-vocational institutions, as well as provides high school education services. The company was formerly known as Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Laureate Education, Inc. in May 2004. Laureate Education, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
LAUR passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
8 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$17.68M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$17.28M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$12.70M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$5.04M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$3.79M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in LAUR
Trades in LAUR disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Donna Shalala · HouseSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 24 Jun 2019 · disclosed 27 Apr 2020
- Donna Shalala · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 4 Jun 2019 · disclosed 27 Apr 2020
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
LAUR peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Education & Training Services), then in the same sector.
- EDU New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.
- TAL TAL Education Group
- LOPE Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
- APEI American Public Education, Inc.
- IEL.AX IDP Education Limited
- SKIL Skillsoft Corp.
- YOUL Youlife Group Inc.
- FEDU Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Inc.
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Common questions
Is Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $59.41, LAUR at $38.16 is 56% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own LAUR?
8 of the institutions we track reported a position in LAUR in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is LAUR's P/E ratio?
LAUR trades at 19.2 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its LAUR data?
Fundamentals for LAUR come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 92/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.