Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: LAUR) on Tuesday, soared 2.02% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $17.30. Within the past 52 weeks, LAUR’s price has moved between $12.17 and $18.39.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has dropped its sales by -7.76% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 99.33%. With a float of $127.53 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $157.59 million.
In an organization with 28900 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 26.68%, operating margin of 23.17%, and the pretax margin is 23.11%.
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Education & Training Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Laureate Education Inc is 15.37%, while institutional ownership is 88.66%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 05 ’24, was worth 221,877. Before that another transaction happened on Jun 03 ’24, when Company’s VP, ACCTG, GLOBAL CONTROLLER sold 1,305 for $15.78, making the entire transaction worth $20,595. This insider now owns 16,628 shares in total.
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) Latest Financial update
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 99.33% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 15.00% during the next five years compared to 13.28% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: LAUR) Trading Performance Indicators
Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.63 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.71. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.91.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.59, a number that is poised to hit 0.42 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.43 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Laureate Education Inc (LAUR)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 0.79 million. That was better than the volume of 0.73 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 65.84%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.55.
During the past 100 days, Laureate Education Inc’s (LAUR) raw stochastic average was set at 84.55%, which indicates a significant increase from 77.16% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 44.73% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 34.02% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $15.87, while its 200-day Moving Average is $14.80. However, in the short run, Laureate Education Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $17.81. Second resistance stands at $17.96. The third major resistance level sits at $18.24. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $17.38, it is likely to go to the next support level at $17.10. The third support level lies at $16.95 if the price breaches the second support level.
Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ: LAUR) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 2.66 billion based on 152,546K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 1,484 M and income totals 107,590 K. The company made 368,630 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 85,460 K in sales during its previous quarter.
