Lincoln Educational Services - LINC Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Lincoln Educational Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" LINC shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Lincoln Educational Services' shares. Their LINC share price forecasts range from $7.00 to $8.50. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $7.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 53.3% from the stock's current price.
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Lincoln Educational Services' stock was trading at $5.79 at the start of the year. Since then, LINC stock has decreased by 11.7% and is now trading at $5.11.
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Lincoln Educational Services saw a decrease in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 76,000 shares, a decrease of 23.3% from the February 13th total of 99,100 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 44,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Currently, 0.4% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 8th 2023.
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Lincoln Educational Services Co. (NASDAQ:LINC) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, February, 27th. The company reported $0.32 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.07. The firm had revenue of $91.78 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $89.86 million. Lincoln Educational Services had a net margin of 3.63% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.66%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.73 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) stock in their portfolio include AdvisorShares Dorsey Wright Micro-Cap ETF (DWMC).

Lincoln Educational Services updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Monday, February, 27th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $345.00 million-$360.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $351.83 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Heartland Advisors Inc. (7.87%), Alyeska Investment Group L.P. (4.95%), Herr Investment Group LLC (4.92%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.92%), Cannell Capital LLC (2.50%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Chad D Nyce, J Barry Morrow, James J Burke Jr, Juniper Investment Company, Ll, Scott M Shaw and Targeted Opportunity F Juniper.
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One share of LINC stock can currently be purchased for approximately $5.11.

Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) has a market capitalization of $161.02 million and generates $348.29 million in revenue each year. The company earns $12.63 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.37 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,121 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.