Lincoln Educational Services Corporation
LINCHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYLincoln Educational Services Corporation reads as High Velocity (composite 70/100); pressure / disclosure signals dominate the posture this cycle · primary market Media & Education.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
N/A
vs N/A in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
0/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Selective Buyer
Acquisition use is visible but targeted.
Composite score
70
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $100M disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 54d
- 178 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 21 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 21 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 21 activism filings
- Latest activism 1.5y ago
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 10-Q 211d stale
- 21 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 178 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $1.6B
- 10-Q 211d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
No disclosed M&A capital in the 10-year window.
This issuer has not disclosed material acquisition spend or count in the last ten fiscal years.
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Geographic Expansion50%
- Bolt On50%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- geographic_expansion
- bolt_on
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“In 2012, we purchased Florida Medical Training Institute (“FMTI") which offers short term certificate programs in the fields of Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic, EKG/Phlebotomy, Nursing Assistant and Fire Fighter, and Associate of Science Degrees in Emergency Medical Services and Fire Science Technology.”
“On December 1, 2008, we acquired Briarwood College which strengthened our position in Connecticut, by adding additional associate and bachelor’s degree programs and has regional accreditation which we believe will enable us to serve a new market and enhance our online programs.”
“Our expansion plans may be achieved organically through the opening of new campuses with existing resources or through acquisitions.”
“we were able to accelerate the expansion of our practical nursing program into New Jersey by acquiring a troubled program”
“seek to identify schools that provide the potential for program replication at our existing campuses”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Media & Education
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $31.8B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $74.8B
- Recent vs prior
- −57%
- Issuer rank in market
- N/A
- Share of market capital
- 0.0%
Valuation positioning
LINC trades at a +20.3-turn premium to the Media & Education peer median of 12.1×.
- EV / Revenue
- 3.1×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.4×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 12.1×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lincoln Educational Services CorporationLINC | 32.4× | 3.1× | -0.4× | $518M | N/A |
| 21.6× | 2.0× | -0.2× | $8.8B | $55M | |
| 19.2× | 1.5× | -3.6× | $25.6B | $196M | |
| 4.9× | 1.8× | 2.2× | $37.2B | $100M | |
| 3.0× | 0.2× | 14.1× | $2.1B | $14M |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Media & Education. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Buyer landscape.
Public buyers whose stated archetypes, target categories, and recent cadence align with this issuer as a plausible acquisition target. Scores cross EDGAR signal and disclosure overlap.
Likely buyers
No public buyers surface as a strong target-side fit on current signal.
Likely sellers / divestiture partners
No reciprocal divestiture / strategic-alternatives matches identified.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)222026-03-02
- 10-Q (quarterly)622025-11-10
- 8-K (event)1782026-04-16
- Proxy / DEF 14A232026-03-26
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)212024-12-02
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2024-12-0221 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.