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Laureate Education, Inc. LAUR

11 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.7B
▲ 8.6% YoY
$281.6M
▼ 5.0% YoY
$263.1M
▲ 63.6% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Laureate Education, Inc. operates a portfolio of degree-granting higher education institutions in Mexico and Peru. Collectively, it has approximately 497,700 students enrolled at five institutions with over 50 campuses as of December 31, 2025. Its students are supported by a workforce of more than 33,900 employees, including 18,340 academic staff, more than 99% of whom are based in Mexico or Peru, with most of its corporate team based in the United States. It offers its educational services through two reportable segments: Mexico and Peru. Laureate Education, Inc. made its first investment in global higher education in 1999. In August 2007, it was acquired in a leveraged buyout by a consortium of investment funds and other investors. On February 6, 2017, it completed its initial public offering, and its common stock began trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol LAUR.

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
2.00B4.00B-0.25B-0.50B201520172019202120232025
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%
20%40%60%-20%-40%-60%201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 26.2%
20%40%-10%-20%201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 26 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 215.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 263.1
100M200M-80M-160M201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 215.0
200M201720182019202020212022202320242025

USD 215.0M in buybacks — 76% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 2.2B
EquityUSD 1.2B
CashUSD 146.7M
Gross debtUSD 73.1M
Net debtUSD -73.6M
Current ratio0.67×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 11-year record
11 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015
Revenue $B1.71.61.51.21.11.01.21.13.33.34.3
Operating income $B0.40.40.30.3−0.0−0.30.0−0.00.20.30.3
EBITDA $B0.50.40.40.30.1······
Income tax $B0.10.10.10.20.1−0.10.00.1−0.10.00.1
Net income $B0.30.30.10.10.2−0.60.90.40.10.4−0.3
Free cash flow $B0.30.20.20.1−0.20.20.20.2−0.1−0.0−0.2
EPS, diluted $1.891.920.680.411.01−2.934.231.73−1.202.76−2.44
Dividend / sh $···········
Payout %···········
ROE %26.231.112.57.311.3−24.138.520.48.358.8·
Shares out B0.140.150.160.160.180.00·0.000.130.13·

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

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