secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC. (LAUR)
CIK:        0000912766
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-02-24T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-22-051060
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Laureate Education Q4 rev $296.7M, adj EBITDA $60.7M; FY22 guide rev up 8-10%
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- Revenue $296.7M in Q4 2021 (+4% reported, +10% organic constant currency); operating loss of $11.0M vs income $36.9M.
- FY2021 revenue $1,086.7M (+6% reported); new enrollments +15%, total enrollments +15%; operating loss $4.6M vs loss $329.3M.
- Adjusted EBITDA FY2021 $253.4M (up from $205.7M); Q4 adj EBITDA $60.7M (down from $90.6M due to academic calendar timing).
- FY2022 guidance: rev $1,169M-$1,194M (8-10% organic CC growth), adj EBITDA $320M-$330M, enrollments 405k-415k (+5-7% organic).
- Special cash distributions of $7.01 and $0.58 per share paid in Oct/Dec 2021 totaling ~$1.4B from Walden sale proceeds.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912766/000119312522051060/0001193125-22-051060-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912766/000119312522051060/d21692d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-051060

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