Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) price on Friday, July 25, rose 1.13% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $23.27.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $23.01, moving within a range at $23.06 and $23.37. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.685 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 12.39. Turning to its 52-week performance, $24.57 and $13.60 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, LAUR moved 3.19% over the past month.
Laureate Education Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $3.46 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-01.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 505.35M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 502M and 508.7M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 1.23% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.59B, representing a 1.35% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that LAUR is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
3 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend LAUR as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 0.77, with LAUR’s current price about -1.23% and 1.81% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 50.79, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.45% and 2.66% in the 30-day chart. Further, Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) has a beta value of 0.54.
If we refocus on Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.37 over the past 10 days and 932.42K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 148.81 million shares.
The 14.64% of Laureate Education Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 87.61% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 2.8 million on 2025-07-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.52. The data shows that as of 2025-07-15 short interest in Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) stood at 225.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 2.3 million registered in 2025-06-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 50.61% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the LAUR stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
