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Laureate Education, Inc. earns 30% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
30%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 21 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 24%
Operating margin · Education & Training Services median 13% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.94×
Cash conversion · 0.68× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Gross margin
- 27%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −32% |
| FY2021 | −0.43% |
| FY2022 | 22% |
| FY2023 | 23% |
| FY2024 | 24% |
| FY2025 | 25% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 27%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 24%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 16%
- Free cash flow margin
- 15%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.74B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $264M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $280M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 30%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #3 of 16 by Smart Score