LINC

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Consumer Defensive DELAYED
Last price
25.74
▼ 0.42 (1.61%)
MARKET ·

Price

Open
27.26
Prev close
26.16
Day high
26.47
Day low
25.25
Volume
1.04M
Market cap
$815.88M
P/E (TTM)
35.23
52W range
17.29 – 56.34

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-14.09% -12.7%
1M
-37.60% -41.3%
3M
-45.09% -48.2%
6M
-14.24% -25.3%
YTD
+6.50% -5.8%
1Y
+31.90% +11.9%
3Y
+201.88% +127.7%
5Y

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$815.88M
Enterprise value$999.80M
Revenue (TTM)$570.78M
Gross profit$341.56M
EBITDA$60.64M
Net income$22.80M
EPS (TTM)$0.73
Free cash flow$5.24M
Total cash$44.18M
Total debt$228.10M
Book value / share$6.27
Shares outstanding31.72M
Float27.80M
Short % of float10.75%
Dividend yield
Beta (5Y)0.85

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E35.23
Forward P/E24.64
PEG ratio2.97
Price / sales
Price / book4.10
EV / revenue1.75
EV / EBITDA16.49
Gross margin59.84%
Operating margin2.30%
Profit margin4.00%
Return on equity11.90%
Return on assets4.20%
Debt / equity112.70
Current ratio0.96
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

Annual · as reported
Last 4 fiscal years
Line item2025202420232022
Total revenue$518.24M$440.06M$378.07M$348.29M
Cost of revenue$0$0$0$0
Gross profit$0$0$0$0
R&D
SG&A
Operating income
Pre-tax income
Tax provision$0$0$0$0
Net income$20.00M$9.89M$26.00M$11.52M
EBIT$0$0$0$0

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 -0.010.06 +1,100.0%
Mar 2026 0.040.14 +250.0%
Dec 2025 0.420.50 +20.1%
Sep 2025 0.020.12 +400.0%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter -0.01 5 $139.34M +19.6%
Next quarter 0.46 5 $155.77M +9.0%
Current year 0.78 5 $594.96M +14.8%
Next year 1.04 5 $648.80M +9.1%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$53.20
High target$60.00
Low target$50.00
Implied upside106.68%
Analyst count5
ConsensusSTRONG BUY
Strong buy / Buy1 / 4
Hold0
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders7.14%
Held by institutions95.08%
Institutions holding298
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
-725.85K
Net selling
Buy transactions
14
43.79K shares
Sell transactions
16
769.64K shares
Net transactions
+30
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
17.6 : 1
Heavily one-sided
Insider-held shares
2.26M
Total on file
Bought 43.79KSold 769.64K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Jun 15, 26
LUSTER ALEXANDRA M
General Counsel
SELL 18.01K $803.83K Direct
Jun 12, 26
JUNIPER INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC
Affiliated Person
SELL 48.81K $2.30M Indirect
Jun 10, 26
CARNEY KEVIN M
Director
SELL 3.00K $144.00K Indirect
Jun 5, 26
LUSTER ALEXANDRA M
General Counsel
SELL 1.99K $99.87K Direct
Jun 4, 26
JUNIPER INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC
Affiliated Person
SELL 106.71K $5.37M Indirect
Jun 3, 26
PRYOR FELECIA J
Director
SELL 2.00K $99.40K Direct
May 22, 26
BURKE JAMES J JR.
Director
SELL 15.81K $764.43K Direct
May 18, 26
BURKE JAMES J JR.
Director
SELL 16.19K $802.63K Direct
May 15, 26
JUNIPER INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC
Affiliated Person
SELL 49.82K $2.55M Indirect
May 12, 26
MEYERS BRIAN KEITH
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 40.07K $2.00M Direct
May 8, 26
BURKE JAMES J JR.
Director
STOCK 2.50K $110.03K Direct
May 7, 26
BARTHOLDSON JOHN A
Director
STOCK 3.52K $155.01K Direct
May 7, 26
PLATER MICHAEL A
Director
STOCK 2.50K $110.03K Direct
May 7, 26
CABRAL ANNA ESCOBEDO
Director
STOCK 2.50K $110.03K Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ACE STEPHEN E
Officer 150.08K Stock Award(Grant)
BARTHOLDSON JOHN A
Director 2.15M Stock Award(Grant)
BURKE JAMES J JR.
Director 44.20K Sale
CARNEY KEVIN M
Director Sale
JUNIPER INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC
Affiliated Person Sale
LUSTER ALEXANDRA M
General Counsel 82.36K Sale
MEYERS BRIAN KEITH
Chief Financial Officer 160.71K Sale
NYCE CHAD D
Chief Operating Officer 174.21K Sale
PLATER MICHAEL A
Director 20.06K Stock Award(Grant)
SHAW SCOTT M
Chief Executive Officer 1.10M Stock Award(Grant)

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
28.56
-9.89% from price
SMA 20
35.26
-27.06% from price
SMA 50
42.95
-40.12% from price
SMA 100
43.73
-41.14% from price
SMA 200
35.61
-27.76% from price
EMA 12
30.47
-15.51% from price
EMA 26
35.55
-27.58% from price
EMA 50
39.54
-34.89% from price
RSI (14)
19.9
Oversold
MACD (12,26,9)
-5.08
Hist -0.78
ATR (14)
2.89
11.25% of price
Realised vol 30D
101.7%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
49.02
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
21.50
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
42.95 vs 35.61
Trend bias
Below 200
-27.76%

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.72
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.17
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
101.7%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
12.9%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-53.8%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-53.8%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
2.89
11.25% of price
Beta (reported)
0.85
5Y monthly, from filing

Unusual options activity

Account required
Flagged1
Total notional$79.92K
Call notional$79.92K
Put notional$0
Tiltcall-weighted
Likely opening0 of 1
SideStrikeExpiryVolumeOpen int. Vol / OINotionalIV PrintScore
CALL 40.00 Mar 19, 27
208d
370 372 1.0× $79.92K 61% at ask
48
How this is calculated, and what it cannot see

A contract is flagged when today's volume approaches or exceeds its open interest, the position is worth at least $40,000, and at least 150 contracts changed hands. Open interest is what was outstanding at yesterday's close, so volume above it means the flow cannot all be closing — something is being opened.

The score weights four things: volume against open interest, dollar notional, volume against the rest of that chain, and where the last print sat inside the bid/ask spread.

What it cannot see. Volume here is a daily total, so ten small orders and one large one are indistinguishable — this is not block or sweep detection, which needs exchange-level time and sales. The print column compares the last trade to the current quote, which is a proxy for who was the aggressor, not a tagged flag. Quotes are delayed. A single large trade can be a hedge, a roll, or one leg of a spread, and none of those mean what a naked directional bet would mean.

Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.52
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
2.07
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
35.00
+36.1% from spot
ATM implied vol
0.0%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+2.1%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
535
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
276
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
50.00
296 contracts
Heaviest put OI
30.00
983 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Options chain

Account required
ExpirySpot 25.74
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

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