LINC

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Consumer Defensive DELAYED
Last price
22.90
▲ 0.70 (3.15%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
22.14
Prev close
22.20
Day high
22.79
Day low
21.89
Volume
414.52K
Market cap
$721.35M
P/E (TTM)
31.15
52W range
17.29 – 56.34

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
-0.26%
Prior close 22.20
VWAP
22.61
+1.28% from price
Relative volume
0.84×
Normal
Session range
9.05%
21.00 – 22.90
Position in range
100%
Near session high
ATR (14D)
1.12
4.88% of price
Prior day high
22.59
PDH
Prior day low
21.48
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
737.81K
Avg 875.58K

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+5.57% +3.6%
1M
-11.31% -12.5%
3M
-58.00% -62.5%
6M
-45.09% -63.3%
YTD
-5.84% -20.1%
1Y
+0.18% -16.2%
3Y
+169.11% +86.9%
5Y
— —

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

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

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

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
-278.94K
Net selling
Buy transactions
9
23.48K shares
Sell transactions
10
302.42K shares
Net transactions
+19
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
12.9 : 1
Heavily one-sided
Insider-held shares
2.26M
Total on file
Bought 23.48KSold 302.42K

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)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$721.35M
Enterprise value$905.27M
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$6.38
Shares outstanding31.72M
Float27.80M
Short % of float10.41%
Dividend yield0.00%
Beta (5Y)0.83

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E31.15
Forward P/E21.74
PEG ratio1.59
Price / sales—
Price / book3.56
EV / revenue1.59
EV / EBITDA14.93
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

As reported · 5 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $518.24M$440.06M$378.07M$348.29M +17.8%
Operating revenue $518.24M$440.06M$378.07M$348.29M +17.8%
Cost of revenue $205.39M$181.76M$162.28M$148.75M +13.0%
Gross profit $312.85M$258.31M$215.79M$199.54M +21.1%
Selling, general & admin $282.95M$243.80M$209.13M$182.39M +16.1%
Total operating expense $283.87M$243.80M$209.13M$182.39M +16.4%
Operating income $28.98M$14.50M$6.66M$17.15M +99.8%
Net interest income -$3.27M-$466.00K$2.28M$158.00K -601.3%
Pre-tax income $26.12M$14.71M$35.64M$16.44M +77.5%
Tax provision $6.12M$4.82M$9.64M$3.80M +27.0%
Net income $20.00M$9.89M$26.00M$12.63M +102.2%
Net income to common $20.00M$9.89M$26.00M$9.21M +102.2%
Basic EPS 0.650.320.860.36 +103.1%
Diluted EPS 0.640.320.850.36 +100.0%
EBIT $29.51M$17.28M$35.99M$16.60M +70.8%
EBITDA $48.67M$28.61M$42.58M$22.96M +70.1%
Basic shares 30.94M30.58M30.11M25.88M +1.2%
Diluted shares 31.26M30.89M30.54M25.88M +1.2%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
3.10
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
—
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
17.50
-23.0% from spot
ATM implied vol
0.0%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+12.5%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
20
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
62
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
20.00
0 contracts
Heaviest put OI
17.50
0 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.

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 0.120.20 +68.7%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.12 5 $152.27M +7.7%
Next quarter 0.45 5 $155.15M +8.6%
Current year 0.77 5 $593.94M +14.6%
Next year 1.05 5 $647.90M +9.1%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$48.20
High target$56.00
Low target$40.00
Implied upside110.48%
Analyst count5
ConsensusSTRONG BUY
Strong buy / Buy1 / 4
Hold0
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders7.14%
Held by institutions95.18%
Institutions holding298
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
22.46
+1.97% from price
SMA 20
23.69
-4.03% from price
SMA 50
28.31
-19.67% from price
SMA 100
38.16
-39.99% from price
SMA 200
36.11
-37.03% from price
EMA 12
22.85
+0.21% from price
EMA 26
24.57
-6.80% from price
EMA 50
28.37
-19.27% from price
RSI (14)
35.0
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-1.72
Hist 0.24
ATR (14)
1.12
4.92% of price
Realised vol 30D
34.1%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
26.51
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
20.88
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
28.31 vs 36.11
Trend bias
Below 200
-37.03%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 22.90
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

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

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.73
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.17
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
34.1%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-61.3%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-61.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
1.12
4.92% of price
Beta (reported)
0.83
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
2.84M
Prior 2.06M
Change vs prior
+37.9%
Shorts adding
% of float
10.41%
Elevated
% of shares out
8.94%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
3.0
Liquid
Float
27.80M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

68 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Aug 11, 26 Lake Street MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Aug 11, 26 Rosenblatt MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jun 11, 26 Rosenblatt MAINTAINED Buy Buy
May 12, 26 Rosenblatt MAINTAINED Buy Buy
May 12, 26 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
May 12, 26 B. Riley Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Mar 20, 26 B. Riley Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Mar 20, 26 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Mar 20, 26 Lake Street MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Mar 20, 26 Rosenblatt MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Feb 24, 26 Lake Street MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Feb 24, 26 B. Riley Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate—
Forward yield0.00%
5-year avg yield4.69%
Payout ratio0.00%
Ex-dividend dateDec 11, 2014
Next pay dateDec 31, 2014
Last split—
Split date—

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