Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR)

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2018 to $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5.8% a year; it rose in 6 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Laureate Education, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 4.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 37% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales (2 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-02 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Laureate Education, Inc. earned about 24 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 46 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s standing among 41 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 20% by size; a net margin of 16.5% ranks in the top 16%; revenue growth of 11.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 39% (its annual reports).

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Serck-Hanssen, Eilif (PRESIDENT & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-03-09, 8.7 years (top 35% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.9 years (bottom 42%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-14, against the 15 people in charge now (top 41%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $147 million against debt of $73 million leaves 3.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 15.5% of revenue (top 21%); a gross margin of 28.3% (bottom 28%) (its annual report).

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.1% a year over the last three filed years against 5.8% over all 8, speeding up (top 24% of its family); the newest year grew 8.6% (top 40%); capital spending grew 25% a year (top 26%) (its annual reports). Laureate Education, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Mexico at $877 million, Peru at $824 million. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 52% of revenue (its annual report).

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Laureate Education, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.3% below the $1.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 46% of its family); net income of $282 million against a prior three-year average of $158 million (top 26%); a net margin of 16.5% against 10.6% before (top 29%) (its annual reports).