LINCLincoln Educational Services Corporation
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in, but well above its own median P/E.
Priced for ~10% a year FCF growth. The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 17% a year, expectations look modest.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 29.7 vs a 14.0 median over 28 quarters (+112% vs median).
Sector median 17.7× across 76 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What LINC's price assumes
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation trades at 29.7× earnings against 18.8× for the median Education & Training Services name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Education & Training Services median 18.8 · 1.58× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.20
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.6%
Free cash flow yield · Education & Training Services median 8.6%
- Growth the price implies
- +10%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +10% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +70% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 3.40
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 19.5
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 1.15
- Consumer Defensive median P/E140 names
- 21.7
- Education & Training Services median P/E17 names
- 18.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $25M
- Market capitalisation31.7 million shares, counted Aug 10, 2026
- $687M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +17%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +70%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 29.7× today against a 14.0× median |
| 52-week range | $17.80 – $55.70 |
| Today | $21.67 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #12 of 15 by RyuScore