Lincoln Educational Services is an education & training services business based in the US. Lincoln Educational Services shares (LINC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $16.15 – an increase of 6.32% over the previous week. Lincoln Educational Services employs 1,800 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $423.2 million.
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| Latest market close | $16.15 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $8.78 - $18.74 |
| 50-day moving average | $13.22 |
| 200-day moving average | $11.74 |
| Wall St. target price | $20.00 |
| PE ratio | 50.4688 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.32 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $15.6 from 2024-11-21
| 1 week (2024-11-15) | 2.70% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-10-24) | 24.01% |
| 3 months (2024-08-23) | 23.52% |
| 6 months (2024-05-23) | 32.77% |
| 1 year (2023-11-22) | 60.33% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-11-23) | 127.74% |
| 3 years (2021-11-23) | 129.75% |
| 5 years (2019-11-22) | 828.57% |
Valuing Lincoln Educational Services stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Lincoln Educational Services's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Lincoln Educational Services's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 50x. In other words, Lincoln Educational Services shares trade at around 50x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Lincoln Educational Services's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.5072. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Lincoln Educational Services's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Lincoln Educational Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $23 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Lincoln Educational Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $423.2 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 2.64% |
| Gross profit TTM | $199.5 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 1.97% |
| Return on equity TTM | 6.02% |
| Profit margin | 2.33% |
| Book value | $5.40 |
| Market Capitalization | $508.4 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Lincoln Educational Services to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Lincoln Educational Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $8.7807 up to $18.74. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Lincoln Educational Services's is 1.408. This would suggest that Lincoln Educational Services's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides various career-oriented post-secondary education services to high school graduates and working adults in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Campus Operations and Transitional. It offers associate's degree, and diploma and certificate programs in automotive technology; skilled trades programs, including electrical, heating and air conditioning repair, welding, computerized numerical control, and electrical and electronic systems technology; health science programs comprising licensed practical nurse, registered nurse, dental assistant, medical assistant, medical administrative assistant, and claims examiner; hospitality service and information technology programs, such as culinary, therapeutic massage, cosmetology, aesthetics, and computer systems support technicians. The company operates schools under the Lincoln Technical Institute, Lincoln College of Technology, Lincoln Culinary Institute, Euphoria Institute of Beauty Arts and Sciences, and other brand names. Lincoln Educational Services Corporation was founded in 1946 and is based in Parsippany, New Jersey. .
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