Jefferies raised the price target for the Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) stock to “a Buy”. The rating was released on October 06, 2023, according to finviz. We previously noted in another research note published on August 07, 2023 by Morgan Stanley that upgraded the stock from an Equal-weight to an Overweight with a price target of $17 for LAUR stock. The research report from Morgan Stanley has downgraded the stock from Overweight to Equal-Weight, with a price target set at $15. The stock was upgraded by Morgan Stanley, who disclosed in a research note on June 24, 2020, from Equal-Weight to Overweight and set the price objective to $13. In their research brief published April 08, 2020, Morgan Stanley analysts downgraded the Laureate Education Inc stock from Overweight to Equal-Weight with a price target of $13.50.
The latest trade, Performances and Moving Averages give us the following Picture
The firm’s stock price fluctuated -4.16% within the last five trades and 2.25% within the last 30 trades, which was a significant change from the beginning of this year. Despite the fact that the share price increased 1.70% in the last 6 months and 9.84% was added to its value over the previous 3 months. LAUR stock is trading at a margin of -2.38%, 2.39% and 6.45% apart from the 20-Day, 50-Day and 200-Day Simple Moving Average prices.
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As of the close of trading, LAUR deals in the Consumer Defensive domain. The stock is trading -5.73 percent below its 52-week high and 30.67 percent above its 52-week low. For example, looking both at the price and the high and low measurements of 52 weeks will give you a clearer picture of the direction the price is heading. The firm’s Weighted Alpha is 15.73. A positive weighted alpha indicates the firm has done well over the course of the year, whereas one below 0 indicates that the firm has done poorly.
What Does Laureate Education Inc’s Profitability and Valuation Ratios Tell Us About the Stock?
With regard to the profitability of the company, the operating margin is currently at 23.03 percent and the profit margin is 7.25 percent, and the company has reported a gross margin of 26.58 percent. The profit margin, also known as the revenue ratio or gross profit ratio, is an efficiency figure used to estimate the business’s profitability by comparing net income and sales. The higher the number, the more profits are generated for the company and vice versa.
The stock’s market cap achieved a total value of $3.15 billion as of the last trading session. Market capitalization is the total value of all outstanding shares of a corporation and it is used to measure a company’s market value. The price-to-earnings ratio for Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) is 20.64. The price-to-earnings ratio is a method of assessing corporate values by comparing them to their per-share profit. Forward P/E stands at 9.76. Forward price-to-earnings is calculated using predicted earnings for the next financial year’s P/E determination. The stock has achieved an effective Price-to-Sales Ratio of 2.12 that mirrors the cost to be found for sales by the market. The firm managed a Price-to-Book ratio of 2.33, which equates the market value of a stock with its book value.
Is Insider Trading a Real Thing?
Almost all investors and traders prefer to invest in shares controlled by the management of a corporation as a management company will be more likely to run the business itself and to never conduct things against the management’s desires and will always try to do what is best for their shareholders. Currently, 41.93 percent of Laureate Education Inc shares are owned by insiders, and 56.32 percent are held by financial institutions. del Corro Pedro, the Director at Laureate Education Inc (LAUR) has sold 24,343 shares of firm on Mar 05 ’24 at a price of $12.62 against the total amount of $0.31 million. In another inside trade, del Corro Pedro, Director of Laureate Education Inc (NASDAQ:LAUR) sold 1,086 shares of the firm on Mar 05 ’24 for a total worth of $13705.0 at a price of $12.62. An inside trade which took place on Dec 04 ’23, 10% Owner of Laureate Education Inc Wengen Alberta, LP sold 200 shares of firm against total price of $2650.0 at the cost of $13.25 per share.
