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 year. 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 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Lincoln Educational Services' shares. Their LINC share price forecasts range from $7.00 to $8.50. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $7.83 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 39.4% from the stock's current price.
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Lincoln Educational Services' stock was trading at $5.79 at the beginning of the year. Since then, LINC shares have decreased by 2.9% and is now trading at $5.62.
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Lincoln Educational Services saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 42,100 shares, a drop of 44.6% from the February 28th total of 76,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 61,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.7 days. Currently, 0.2% of the shares of the company 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) released its earnings results on Monday, February, 27th. The company reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.25 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $91.78 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $89.86 million. Lincoln Educational Services had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.66% and a net margin of 3.63%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.73 earnings per share.

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 issued an update on 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 a number of 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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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 $5.62.

Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) has a market capitalization of $177.09 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.