Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) does about 640.85K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 903675 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 2.66B USD. Its current market price is $17.65, marking an increase of 2.02% compared to the previous close of $17.30. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $18.39 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $12.17.
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) has a 20-day trading average at $15.88 and the current price is -4.02% off the 52-week high compared with 44.99% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $15.87 and its 200-day simple moving average is $14.80. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 4.10%, which decreases to 2.71% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 71.96 to suggest the stock is overbought.
The consensus objective for the share price is $20.00, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 11.75% over the period.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 3 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 3 analysts have rated it as a buy and 0 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on July 26, 2024 when Morgan Stanley downgraded the stock to “Equal-Weight” and issued a price target of $17. Morgan Stanley upgraded its price target at $15-$17.
The current price level is 11.18%, 11.24%, and 19.27% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the LAUR price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) stock is up 14.54% over the week and 13.00% over the past month. Its price is 28.74% year-to-date and 36.38% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 9/30/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.26 below consensus estimates by -0.09. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.42 and 2.34 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $267.1M, which analysts say will come at $1.55B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.6B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $411.5M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 11.75 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 18.49% and return on equity of 26.87%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 11.11 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 12.39. The beta has a value of 0.81. Price to book ratio is 2.96 and price to sales ratio is 1.71.
