What does Laureate Education do?

Laureate Education runs a group of universities and technical schools, mainly in Mexico and Peru, plus operations in the United States. Students can earn undergraduate, graduate, and specialized degrees in fields like medicine and health, engineering and IT, and business. Classes are offered on campus, online, or as a mix of both.

What is Laureate Education's fair value?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Laureate Education's most-likely fair value is about $49, versus a recent price near $39. A margin-of-safety estimate, not a price target. Analysis, not advice.

Consumer Defensive · Education & Training Services · LAUR

What Laureate Education Does & How It Makes Money (LAUR)

Updated October 2026 · reflects Laureate Education's latest reported financials

Operator of for-profit universities in Mexico, Peru, and the United States. The company earns money mainly from tuition and fees paid by students enrolled in its universities, technical-vocational institutes, and high school programs, across campus, online, and hybrid formats.

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How Laureate Education makes money

The company earns money mainly from tuition and fees paid by students enrolled in its universities, technical-vocational institutes, and high school programs, across campus, online, and hybrid formats.

What Laureate Education does

Laureate Education, Inc. is a Miami-based operator of higher education institutions, with its portfolio concentrated in Mexico and Peru and additional operations in the United States. It offers undergraduate, graduate, and specialized degree programs, with a focus on medicine and health sciences, engineering and information technology, and business and management, delivered through campus-based, online, and hybrid formats. Beyond universities, the company runs technical-vocational institutions and provides high school education services. Founded in 1989 as Sylvan Learning Systems, it took the Laureate Education name in May 2004. For investors, it is a way to get exposure to demand for private higher education in Latin America.

Products & services

Undergraduate degree programs
Graduate and specialized degree programs
Medicine and health sciences programs
Engineering and IT programs
Online and hybrid learning programs
Technical-vocational and high school education

What is Laureate Education worth?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Laureate Education's most-likely value is about $49 versus a recent price near $39 (25% below fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$22) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.

Verdict: Fairly priced — no edge

Owner-earnings fair value · recent price ≈ $39

Fair value (most likely)

$49

Range

$34–$81

No-growth floor

$22

Price

~$39

Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.

Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →

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