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Laureate Education, Inc. LAUR
11 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 19 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
USD 1.7B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 11-year series below
Revenue $B
Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.7 · Net income 0.3
Compound annual growth
+11.1%
+10.7%
−8.8%
+59.4%
+66.4%
−7.2%
+23.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at +10.7% a year over five years.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
17 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 25.3% · Net 16.7%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 26.2%
Each USD of equity produced 26 cents of profit this year.
The 11-year record
11 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
| Operating income $B | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | −0.0 | −0.3 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Net income $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | −0.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | −0.3 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | −0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | −0.1 | −0.0 | −0.2 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 1.89 | 1.92 | 0.68 | 0.41 | 1.01 | −2.93 | 4.23 | 1.73 | −1.20 | 2.76 | −2.44 |
| Dividend / sh $ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 26.2 | 31.1 | 12.5 | 7.3 | 11.3 | −24.1 | 38.5 | 20.4 | 8.3 | 58.8 | · |
| Shares out B | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 0.00 | · | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.13 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 43 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 12 of 19 fiscal years. 41 checks could not be computed.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Educational Services
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2014