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 99.62% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LINC is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• LINC's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 16.83% of US stocks).

LINC Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for LINC is 2.61 -- better than 79.98% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.03% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.57, LINCOLN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES CORP has a higher such ratio than just 19.86% 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 SAMG, HVT, LZB, RGR, and SCVL.
• 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 price/earnings ratio is 16.55% lower, now standing at 17.9.
• Over the past 218 months, LINC's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LINC.

LINC Growth Metrics

Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 57881.08%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 930.57%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 95.9%.

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.