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Fair value pending

Upside to midpoint

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Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

1.4B

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Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price

LINC

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E64.9

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E69.9

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE10.6

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC6

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All LINC market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

263

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Currency

USD

Showing 263 of 263 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001286613
Company name	Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	533535100
Employees	2,590
Employees Change	115%
Employees Change Percent	4.65
Enterprise value	$1.6B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Education & Training Services
IPO Date	2005-06-23
Isin	US5335351004
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$1.4B
Market cap category	Small-Cap
Price	$44.75
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	200,093.05x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	8200
Symbol	LINC
Website	https://www.lincolntech.edu

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	1.41%
EV Earnings	79.7x
EV Sales Forward	2.67x
EV/EBIT	55x
EV/EBITDA	32x
EV/Sales	3.08x
FCF yield	-1.93%
Forward P/E	64.86x
P/B ratio	7.09x
P/E ratio	69.92x
P/S ratio	2.74x
PE Ratio10 Y	20.81x
PE Ratio3 Y	31.77x
PE Ratio5 Y	22.28x
PEG ratio	3.09x
PS Forward	2.38x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	5.59%
EBITDA Margin	9.61%
Gross margin	60.37%
Gross Profit	$312.9M
Gross Profit Growth	21.12%
Gross Profit Growth Q	19.81%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	16.17%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	12.85%
Net Income	$20M
Net Income Growth	102.18%
Net Income Growth Q	85.84%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	29.49%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-11.49%
Pretax Margin	5.04%
Profit Margin	3.86%
Profit Per Employee	$7,721
Profitable Years	7
ROA	3.9
Roa5y	2.24
ROCE	7.38
ROE	10.58
Roe5y	14.05
ROIC	5.97
Roic5y	4.15

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	36.94%
Cagr15y	8.98%
Cagr1y	139.96%
Cagr20y	6.24%
Cagr3y	98.37%
Cagr5y	44.85%
Div CAGR3	-39.68%
EPS Growth	100
EPS Growth Q	87.06
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	21.6
EPS Growth5 Y	-15.52
FCF Growth Q	352.36%
OCF Growth	102.39%
OCF Growth Q	43.6%
OCF Growth10 Y	15.26%
OCF Growth3 Y	306.65%
OCF Growth5 Y	20.36%
Revenue Growth	17.77x
Revenue Growth Q	19.69x
Revenue Growth Quarters	22x
Revenue Growth Years	8x
Revenue Growth3 Y	14.16x
Revenue Growth5 Y	12.07x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.11
Assets	$493.2M
Cash	$28.5M
Current Assets	$87M
Current Liabilities	$100.7M
Debt	$203.9M
Debt EBITDA	$2.85
Debt Equity	$1.02
Equity	$199.7M
Interest Coverage	8.54
Liabilities	$293.5M
Long Term Assets	$406.1M
Long Term Liabilities	$192.8M
Net Cash	$-175.3M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-12.36
Net Debt EBITDA	$3.52
Net Debt Equity	$0.88
Tangible Book Value	$188.9M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$5.97
WACC	7.59

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.86
Inventory Turnover	58.36
Net Working Capital	$-31.1M
Quick ratio	0.75
Working Capital	$-13.7M
Working Capital Turnover	$141

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-1.2%
Dividend per share	$0
Dividend Yield	0%
Last Dividend	$0.02

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	2,218.65%
1Y total return	139.82%
200-day SMA	27.19
3Y total return	680.98%
50-day SMA	39.86
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	537.46%
All Time High	45.48
All Time High Change	-1.61%
All Time High Date	2026-05-06
All Time Low	0.17
All Time Low Change	26,223.53%
All Time Low Date	2015-09-28
ATR	1.81
Beta	0.77
Beta1y	0.27
Beta2y	0.81
Ch YTD	85.3
High	45.45
High52	45.48
High52 Date	2026-05-06
High52ch	-1.61%
Low	43.81
Low52	17.29
Low52 Date	2025-11-06
Low52ch	158.82%
Ma50ch	12.27%
Price vs 200-day SMA	64.61%
RSI	66.91
RSI Monthly	81.38
RSI Weekly	77.81
Sharpe ratio	2.06x
Sortino ratio	3.45
Total Return	-1.2%
Tr YTD	85.3
Tr15y	263.45%
Tr1m	8.07%
Tr1w	9.33%
Tr3m	71.26%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	4
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$45
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.04
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-63.64
Earnings Revenue Estimate	135,279,840x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	15.13x
Operating Income	$29M
Operating Income Growth	99.83
Operating Income Growth Q	38.87
Operating Income Growth3 Y	19.11
Operating Income Growth5 Y	14.54
Operating margin	5.59
Price target	$45
Price Target Change	$0.56
Price Target Change Top	$0.56

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	25,797,426%
Float Percent	81.39%
Net Borrowing	-356,000
Shares Insiders	7.36%
Shares Institutions	68.9%
Shares Out	31,696,582
Shares Qo Q	0.2%
Shares Yo Y	1.2%
Short Float	7.17%
Short Ratio	3.75
Short Shares	5.84

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$-32.8M
Average Volume	432,237.2x
Bv Per Share	6.31
CAPEX	$-86.6M
Ch10y	2,218.7
Ch15y	195.6
Ch1m	8.07
Ch1w	9.33
Ch1y	139.8
Ch20y	164.2
Ch3m	71.26
Ch3y	681
Ch5y	537.5
Ch6m	151.4
Change	1.47%
Change From Open	0.34
Close	44.1
Days Gap	1.13
Depreciation Amortization	20,831,000
Dollar Volume	34,337,525.3
Earnings Date	2026-05-11
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$29M
EBITDA	$49.8M
EPS	$0.64
F Score	5
FCF	$-27.3M
FCF EV Yield	-1.71x
FCF Per Share	$-0.86
Financing CF	-3,866,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,946
Goodwill	10,742,000
Graham Number	9.53565
Graham Upside	-78.69
Income Tax	$6.1M
Investing CF	-86,199,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-02-23
Last Report Date	2025-12-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-03-02
Lynch Fair Value	$3.2
Lynch Upside	-92.85
Ma150	29.22
Ma150ch	53.13%
Ma20	41.29
Ma20ch	8.38%
Net CF	-30,754,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-11
Open	44.6
Optionable	Yes
P OCF Ratio	23.91
Position In Range	57.32
Post Close	44.75
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.02
Postmarket Price	$44.74
Ppne	350,901,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$28.48
Ptbv Ratio	7.51
Relative Volume	1.78x
Revenue	518,241,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.06x
Share Based Comp	5,488,000
Tax By Revenue	1.18x
Tax Rate	23.43%
Tr20y	235.61%
Tr6m	151.4%
Us State	New Jersey
Volume	767,319
Z Score	2.78

Fast facts

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Risk gate

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Moat score

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Forward P/E

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does LINC pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

LINC stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns LINC?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+68.9%

Float: +81.4% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+7.4%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

LINC momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

66.9

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+64.6%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.77

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

2.06

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

LINC vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	Bán
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	Mua mạnh
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	Giữ

Questions

About LINC

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What is the current LINC stock rating?

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