Lincoln Educational Services Corp [NASDAQ: LINC] closed the trading session at $22.53. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of $22.43, while the highest price level was $22.895.
The stocks have a year to date performance of 42.41 percent and weekly performance of 4.16 percent. The stock has been moved at 40.72 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed 5.82 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed 44.89 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 267.79K shares, LINC reached to a volume of 118708 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Lincoln Educational Services Corp [LINC]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for LINC shares is $25.83 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on LINC stock is a recommendation set at 1.00. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Northland Capital have made an estimate for Lincoln Educational Services Corp shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Outperform, with their previous recommendation back on April 24, 2025. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, B. Riley Securities raised their target price to Buy. The new note on the price target was released on March 28, 2025, representing the official price target for Lincoln Educational Services Corp stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $8, while Rosenblatt analysts kept a Buy rating on LINC stock.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Lincoln Educational Services Corp is set at 0.91, with the Price to Sales ratio for LINC stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 1.57. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 4.00, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 0.91.
LINC stock trade performance evaluation
Lincoln Educational Services Corp [LINC] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 4.16. With this latest performance, LINC shares gained by 5.82% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 40.72% over the last 6 months – not to mention a rise of 112.75% in the past year of trading.
Lincoln Educational Services Corp [LINC]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Lincoln Educational Services Corp [LINC] shares currently have an operating margin of 3.93% and a Gross Margin at 59.02%. Lincoln Educational Services Corp’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 2.65%.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 3.08%, with Return on Assets sitting at 3.08%.
Lincoln Educational Services Corp [LINC]: Institutional Ownership
The top three institutional holders of LINC stocks are: JUNIPER INVESTMENT COMPANY, LLC with ownership of 3.32 million shares, which is approximately 10.827%. HERR INVESTMENT GROUP LLC, holding 2.35 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$27.86 million in LINC stocks shares; and HERR INVESTMENT GROUP LLC, currently with $$22.09 million in LINC stock with ownership which is approximately 6.0744%.
