Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (LINC): Price and Financial Metrics

LINC POWR Grades

• LINC scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 98.62% of US stocks.
• LINC's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• LINC ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 23rd percentile.

LINC Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 6.13, Lincoln Educational Services Corp P/E ratio is greater than that of about only 10.38% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• Of note is the ratio of Lincoln Educational Services Corp's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.89% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Lincoln Educational Services Corp is reporting a growth rate of 233.27%; that's higher than 91.19% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Lincoln Educational Services Corp are OXM, CRI, LZB, HVT, and UVE.
• LINC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Lincoln Educational Services Corp's official web site, go to www.lincolntech.edu.

LINC Valuation Summary

• LINC's EV/EBIT ratio is 8.7; this is 51.67% lower than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 197 months, LINC's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 12.3.
• Over the past 197 months, LINC's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 12.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LINC.

LINC Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -27.05%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -102.68%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 174.53%.

LINC's revenue has moved up $82,418,000 over the prior 52 months.

The table below shows LINC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	335.336	27.447	33.499
2021-09-30	329.311	31.013	55.558
2021-06-30	319.044	18.084	54.461
2021-03-31	301.05	27.133	53.122
2020-12-31	293.095	23.485	47.187
2020-09-30	285.218	16.103	10.678

LINC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• LINC has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 86.53% of graded US stocks.
• LINC's asset turnover comes in at 1.364 -- ranking 5th of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• EDU, PRDO, and RGS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LINC.

The table below shows LINC's key quality metrics over time.