Laureate (LAUR) Q1 2025 Earnings Transcript

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Mon, May 4, 2026 astatine 9:47 AM CDT 21 min read

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Date

May 1, 2025, astatine 8:30 a.m. ET

Call participants

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Eilif Serck-Hanssen

• Chief Financial Officer — Rick Buskirk

• Senior Vice President, Investor Relations — Adam Morse

Full Conference Call Transcript

Adam Morse: Good morning, and convey you for joining america connected today's telephone to sermon Laureate Education's First Quarter 2025 Results. Joining maine connected the telephone contiguous are Eilif Serck-Hanssen, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Rick Buskirk, Chief Financial Officer. Our net property merchandise is disposable connected the Investor Relations conception of our website astatine laureate.net. We've besides posted a supplementary presumption to the website, which we volition beryllium referring to during today's call. The telephone is being webcast, and a implicit signaling volition beryllium disposable aft the call.

I'd similar to punctual you that immoderate of the accusation we are providing today, including, but not constricted to, our fiscal and operational guidance, constitutes forward-looking statements wrong the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws. Forward-looking statements are taxable to risks and uncertainties that whitethorn alteration astatine immoderate time, and therefore, our existent results whitethorn disagree materially from those we expected. Important factors that could origin existent results to disagree materially from our expectations are disclosed successful our yearly study connected Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, our 10-Q filed earlier this greeting arsenic good arsenic different filings made with the SEC.

In addition, each forward-looking statements are based connected existent expectations arsenic of the day of this league call, and we undertake nary work to update immoderate forward-looking statements. Additionally, non-GAAP measures that we discuss, including and among others, adjusted EBITDA and its related margin, adjusted nett income and adjusted net per share, full indebtedness nett of currency and escaped currency travel are besides elaborate and reconciled to their GAAP counterparts successful our property merchandise oregon supplementary presentation. Let maine present crook the telephone implicit to Eilif.

Eilif Serck-Hanssen: Thank you, Adam, and bully morning, everyone. 2025 is disconnected to a bully start, and we are encouraged by the coagulated results from our precocious completed intake cycles, which included Peru's superior intake and a smaller secondary intake for Mexico. Enrollment results came successful enactment with our expectations for some markets with year-over-year caller enrollment maturation of 8% for Mexico and 6% successful Peru done the completion of the intake cycles by mediate of April. With the intake present finalized, we person bully visibility into the remainder of the year, and we are tightening the scope of our afloat twelvemonth guidance, efficaciously raising the midpoint for full enrollments, gross and adjusted EBITDA.