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Laureate Education, Inc. - (LAUR) Company Bio

Laureate Education, Inc. provides undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland

LAUR Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

The table below illustrates the output of a discounted cash flow forecast using a variety of scenarios for Laureate Education Inc. To summarize, we found that Laureate Education Inc ranked in the 85st percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Specifically, our DCF analysis implies the stock is trading below its fair value by an estimated 563%. As for the metrics that stood out in our discounted cash flow analysis of Laureate Education Inc, consider:

• Its compound free cash flow growth rate, as measured over the past 2.76 years, is 0.83% -- higher than 90.14% of stocks in our DCF forecasting set.
• Laureate Education Inc's weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is 8%; for context, that number is higher than merely 11.34% of tickers in our DCF set.
• As a business, Laureate Education Inc experienced a tax rate of about 9% over the past twelve months; relative to its sector (Consumer Defensive), this tax rate is higher than just 24.84% of stocks generating free cash flow.

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