Lincoln Educational Services - LINC Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lincoln Educational Services in the last year. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" LINC shares.
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4 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Lincoln Educational Services' stock. Their LINC share price forecasts range from $8.00 to $10.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $8.63 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 37.3% from the stock's current price.
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Lincoln Educational Services' stock was trading at $7.47 at the start of the year. Since then, LINC stock has decreased by 15.9% and is now trading at $6.28.
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Lincoln Educational Services saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 257,400 shares, an increase of 25.6% from the October 31st total of 205,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 126,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 27th 2023.
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Lincoln Educational Services Co. (NASDAQ:LINC) announced its quarterly earnings results on Sunday, November, 7th. The company reported $0.11 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.09 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $89.06 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $82.77 million. Lincoln Educational Services had a net margin of 8.14% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 21.96%. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.08 earnings per share.

Lincoln Educational Services updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Monday, November, 21st. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $340.00 million-$350.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $345.23 million.

32 employees have rated Lincoln Educational Services Chief Executive Officer Scott Shaw on Glassdoor.com. Scott Shaw has an approval rating of 53% among the company's employees. This puts Scott Shaw in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Lincoln Educational Services trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "LINC."

Lincoln Educational Services' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Heartland Advisors Inc. (7.77%), Royce & Associates LP (4.70%), Uniplan Investment Counsel Inc. (2.47%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.39%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.18%) and BlackRock Inc. (1.87%). Insiders that own company stock include J Barry Morrow, James J Burke Jr, Juniper Investment Company, Ll, Scott M Shaw, Stephen M Buchenot and Targeted Opportunity F Juniper.
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Shares of LINC stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of LINC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $6.28.

Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) has a market capitalization of $164.91 million and generates $335.34 million in revenue each year. The company earns $34.72 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.83 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,056 workers across the globe.

Lincoln Educational Services' mailing address is 200 EXECUTIVE DRIVE SUITE 340, WEST ORANGE NJ, 07052. The official website for the company is www.lincolntech.edu. The company can be reached via phone at (973) 736-9340, via email at dsherk@evcgroup.com, or via fax at 973-736-1750.