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Lincoln Educational Services Corp
Lincoln Educational Services Corp (LINC) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Education & Training Services, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Parsippany, United States and has 2,190 employees. The company is worth $696.6M and trades at 29.3x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $518.24M in fiscal 2025, up 17.8% from the year before. Net income was $20M. The share price is 61.0% below its 52-week high of $56.34. 3 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $18.96M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +215.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $3,086.11▲ +208.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $24.15 | $15.82 | $10.04 | $5.79 | $7.47 | $6.50 | $2.70 | $3.20 | $2.02 | $1.92 | $1.99 | $2.80 | $4.98 | $5.59 | $7.90 | $15.51 | $21.66 | |
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Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 11.9 across this company’s own years on record.
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
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| AGCCAgencia Comercial Spirits Ltd. | $16.01 | 400.3x | 32.3x | 0.00% | 10.36% | $685.01M |
| HELEHelen of Troy Ltd | $28.96 | — | 0.8x | 0.00% | -11.15% | $677.39M |
| VLGEAVillage Super Market Inc | $45.62 | 12.9x | 1.3x | 2.19% | 10.29% | $675.46M |
| YSWYYesway, Inc. |
| 11.9x |
| 37.7x |
| 49.4x |
| 11.8x |
| 16.1x |
| 7.2x |
| 4.4x |
| 33.8x |
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| P/S | 0.5x | 1.5x | 1.1x | 0.8x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.6x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.7x | 1.1x |
| P/B | 1.6x | 3.9x | 2.8x | 1.9x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 1.6x | 2.0x | 1.1x | 0.9x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 2.0x | 2.7x |
| EPS | $0.64 | $0.32 | $0.85 | $0.36 | $1.04 | $1.49 | $0.08 | -$0.48 | -$0.48 | -$1.21 | -$0.14 | -$2.46 | -$2.28 | -$1.68 | $0.79 | $2.79 | $1.82 |
| Dividend yield | 5.62% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6.43% | 5.62% | 5.01% | 10.38% | 1.61% | — |
| Payout | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 103.80% | 8.96% | — |
| Profit margin | 2.25% | 3.86% | 2.25% | 6.88% | 3.63% | 10.35% | 16.57% | 0.74% | -4.36% | -4.39% | -9.91% | -1.09% | -25.74% | -23.79% | -9.78% | 3.84% | 11.53% | 8.91% |
| ROE | 5.55% | 10.01% | 5.55% | 15.59% | 8.72% | 26.83% | 53.33% | 4.67% | -28.81% | -25.07% | -51.53% | -4.14% | -67.62% | -35.32% | -18.74% | 7.34% | 31.34% | 22.52% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
3 methods answered, across 1 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-50.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $23.15 |
| 17.1x |
| 1.8x |
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| $721.95M |
| OFRMOnce Upon a Farm, PBC | $17.36 | — | 4.7x | 0.00% | -16.01% | $728.96M |
| NGVCNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. | $32.37 | 14.6x | 3.1x | 1.85% | 21.56% | $745.99M |