Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$49.46
+0.96% today
1Y Change
+103.49%
Window
Jun 27, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 27, 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 $49.46 and up 103.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 27, 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.
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LINC Max Drawdown
-27.35%
Trailing 1Y
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Trailing 1Y
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