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

LINC POWR Grades

• LINC scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 94.96% of US stocks.
• LINC's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• LINC's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 14.83% of US stocks).

LINC Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.71% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.48, LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP has a higher such ratio than just 14.77% of stocks in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for LINC comes in at 11.94% -- higher than that of 85.38% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be PRIM, OXM, GHM, LPX, and MGPI.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, LINC's price/sales ratio is 78.95% lower, now standing at 0.4.
• LINC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 16.5 over the prior 210 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LINC.

LINC Growth Metrics

The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -101.59%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at 63.74%.
• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -61.83%.

LINC's revenue has moved up $74,548,000 over the prior 37 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
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
2021-03-31	301.05	27.133	53.122

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.