In recent trading session, Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) saw 0.75 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.55. Company’s recent per share price level of $23.58 trading at -$0.12 or -0.49% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $3.51B. That most recent trading price of LAUR’s stock is at a discount of -3.56% from its 52-week high price of $24.42 and is indicating a premium of 42.32% from its 52-week low price of $13.60. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.19 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 869.02K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Laureate Education Inc (LAUR), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.50. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 0 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.49%, in the last five days LAUR remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 07/17/25 when the stock touched $23.58 price level, adding 2.36% to its value on the day. Laureate Education Inc’s shares saw a change of 52.85% in year-to-date performance and have moved -1.13% in past 5-day. Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) showed a performance of 5.29% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 2.3 million shares which calculate 3.63 days to cover the short interests.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 24.18% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 22.32% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 15.13%.
Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 9.45% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 95.25 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 105.19%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 95.25% institutions for Laureate Education Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. FMR LLC is the top institutional holder at LAUR for having 23.27 million shares of worth $347.71 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.1281 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 15.11 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.821 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $225.73 million.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Fidelity Rutland Square TRT II-Strategic Advisers U.S. Total Stock Fd. are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 4.05 shares of worth $96.07 million or 2.72% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 3.81 shares on May 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $90.19 million in the company or a holder of 2.56% of company’s stock.
