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

LINC POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where LINC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 95.31% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LINC is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• LINC ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 10th percentile.

LINC Stock Summary

• LINC's current price/earnings ratio is 6.13, which is higher than only 14.07% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• Of note is the ratio of LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.86% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 14.03%, greater than the shareholder yield of 88.95% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP are OXM, CRI, GCO, KRO, and COLM.
• Visit LINC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.lincolntech.edu.

LINC Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, LINC's EV/EBIT ratio is 74.8% lower, now standing at 4.8.
• LINC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 16.2 over the prior 214 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LINC.

LINC Growth Metrics

The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 57881.08%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 410.76%.
• The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at 12.9%.

Over the past 33 months, LINC's revenue has gone up $70,983,000.

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
2022-09-30	344.325	10.309	26.82
2022-06-30	341.571	16.388	27.115
2022-03-31	339.893	21.379	29.282
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

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.