Laureate Education, Inc.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $38.38, Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR) is priced for -2.1% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed June 27, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Laureate is a focused two-country higher-education operator, Mexico and Peru in roughly even weight, and its flagship Mexican university alone enrolls about 132,200 students per the latest 10-K, giving it scale in markets where public capacity is capped. • The business runs at a 24% operating margin and the share count has fallen about 5% a year, but it carries modest net debt and earns most of its money in two emerging-market currencies, so a peso or sol move can swing reported results. • Enr
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329 institutional managers reported holding LAUR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 60 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Vanguard Group, among others. On the short side, 5.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
LAUR has cut its share count 25.9% over the past five years, spending $1.09B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 4 years running. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.27M in dividends and $425.41M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at LAUR over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 20 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
LAUR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-04 | +4.8% | +5.3% |
| 2023-11-03 | -4.7% | -4.6% |
| 2024-02-23 | +0.2% | +12.6% |
| 2024-05-03 | +2.7% | -2.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
LAUR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-30 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-27 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-19 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2025-10-30 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: June 27, 2026
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