Laureate Education, Inc. - (LAUR): Price and Financial Metrics

LAUR POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where LAUR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 96.67% of US stocks.
• LAUR's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• LAUR's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 19.7% of US stocks).

LAUR Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of LAUREATE EDUCATION INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 97.55% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for LAUREATE EDUCATION INC is higher than it is for about 92.02% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for LAUR comes in at 25.97% -- higher than that of 93.23% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to LAUREATE EDUCATION INC are ALCO, CMP, XP, CACC, and HLX.
• Visit LAUR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.laureate.net.

LAUR Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, LAUR's EV/EBIT ratio is 54.77% lower, now standing at 9.
• LAUR's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 21.4 over the prior 74 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LAUR.

LAUR Growth Metrics

Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at -25.61%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at -12.63%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 135.68%.

Over the past 70 months, LAUR's revenue has gone down $3,051,519,000.

The table below shows LAUR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	1,192.673	-55.441	56.297
2022-06-30	1,159.365	-128.296	385.586
2022-03-31	1,101.563	-113.488	313.163
2021-12-31	1,086.701	-156.082	192.446
2021-09-30	251.13	91.841	545.946
2021-06-30	226.962	216.047	-598.902

LAUR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• LAUR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 44.95% of graded US stocks.
• LAUR's asset turnover comes in at 0.059 -- ranking 49th of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• EVI, BFAM, and SCI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LAUR.

The table below shows LAUR's key quality metrics over time.