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Lincoln Educational Services has delivered a ~200% gain since 2022, driven by a consistently strong story and impressive performance amid challenging conditions. Initially a deep value play, LINC's valuation has expanded to about 9x EBITDA for 2025, reflecting its robust growth prospects. The demand for Lincoln graduates in skilled trades and nursing remains high, and the countercyclical nature of its business model is a key strength.
Emerging from the first earnings season of 2025, a picture of a cooling market has become increasingly clear. Companies across sectors signaled caution in their forward guidance, with 59% of S&P 500 companies issuing negative earnings per share (EPS) guidance for the current year as of March 7, 2025.
In Part 2 of our Earnings Recap, we present a sector-by-sector breakdown of the Winners of REIT Earnings Season, discussing incremental positives/negatives and noting the individual standouts. Healthcare REITs were the leaders this earnings season, with results showing robust momentum in senior housing fundamentals, while tenant operator issues improved across other healthcare sub-sectors. Results from Net Lease, Casino, and Residential Mortgage REITs - several of the most rate-sensitive sectors - were also surprisingly steady despite the interest rate turbulence in late 2024.
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Given the inherent volatility and unpredictability of the stock market, pinpointing companies primed for significant growth can be a formidable task for investors. While maintaining a personal watchlist of stocks is a common practice, a more potent signal of potential growth can be extracted from curated watchlists provided by market data research providers.
Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks have driven the stock market higher, supercharging the bull market and leading the S&P 500 to its second consecutive year of double-digit gains. And this momentum is very likely to continue.
As earnings season concludes, investors looking for meaningful catalysts to point to as reasons to own specific stocks certainly have plenty to think about.
Energy Transfer LP is delicately positioned as a growth and income hybrid play, benefiting from AI infrastructure expansion and supportive Trump administration policies. ET's diversified energy infrastructure helps lower the underlying market volatility, as high utilization helps support its mostly fee-based model. ET's forward EBITDA multiple of 8.8x and a distribution yield of nearly 7% suggest that investors have yet to fully revalue its bullish thesis.
These stocks have strong revenue and earnings growth potential for 2025. These are: PLTR, CRWD, CEG, CVNA, IBKR.