Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$49.89
+1.84% today
1Y Change
+110.11%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (LINC) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $1.29B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $49.89 and up 110.1% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +17.8%, EPS growth of +103.1%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +17.8%, EPS +103.1%, free cash flow +0.4% with operating margin 5.7% and ROIC 5.6%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 62.8 and price/sales 2.5. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a higher-growth but lower-margin setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LINC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
LINC is 89.25 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
LINC had 18.21 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
LINC beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
LINC
+110.11%
Normalized return
SPY
+20.86%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+89.25 pts
Relative to SPY
LINC Max Drawdown
-27.35%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for LINC and SPY.
| Year | LINC | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +107.76% | +6.71% | +101.06 pts | LINC |
| 2025 | +6.77% | +11.19% | -4.43 pts | SPY |
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Dividend Yield
No active yield
Trailing 12M Payout
$0.00
Last Payout
| Ex-Date | Record | Pay | Dividend | Adj | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11, 2014 | Dec 15, 2014 | Dec 31, 2014 | $0.02 | $0.02 | Quarterly |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Sep 12, 2014 | Sep 30, 2014 | $0.02 | $0.02 | Quarterly |
| Jun 11, 2014 | Jun 13, 2014 | Jun 30, 2014 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Mar 12, 2014 | Mar 14, 2014 | Mar 31, 2014 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Dec 11, 2013 | Dec 13, 2013 | Dec 31, 2013 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Sep 11, 2013 | Sep 13, 2013 | Sep 30, 2013 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Jun 12, 2013 | Jun 14, 2013 | Jun 28, 2013 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Mar 15, 2013 | Mar 29, 2013 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Dec 14, 2012 | Dec 31, 2012 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Sep 14, 2012 | Sep 28, 2012 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Jun 13, 2012 | Jun 15, 2012 | Jun 29, 2012 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Mar 13, 2012 | Mar 15, 2012 | Mar 30, 2012 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Dec 15, 2011 | Dec 30, 2011 | $0.07 | $0.07 | Quarterly |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Sep 15, 2011 | Sep 30, 2011 | $0.25 | $0.25 | Quarterly |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Jun 15, 2011 | Jun 30, 2011 | $0.25 | $0.25 | Quarterly |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Mar 15, 2011 | Mar 31, 2011 | $0.25 | $0.25 | Quarterly |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Dec 15, 2010 | Dec 31, 2010 | $0.25 | $0.25 | Quarterly |
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