Lincoln National (LNC) closed at $39.55 on October 20, 2026, up 0.7% from the previous close, on volume of 1,363,901 shares (30-day average 1,952,526).
Data as of October 20, 2026.
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Lincoln National Corp operates multiple insurance and retirement businesses. The company's operating segment includes Annuities; Retirement Plan Services; Life Insurance and Group Protection. Its products include fixed and indexed annuities, variable annuities, universal life insurance (UL), variable universal life insurance (VUL), linked-benefit UL and VUL, indexed universal life insurance (IUL), term life insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plans and services, and group life, disability, and dental.
Lincoln National trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol LNC.
As of October 21, 2026, LNC stock price climbed to $39.87 with 262,065 million shares trading.
LNC has a beta of 0.73, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LNC has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.
LNC has a market cap of $7.63 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter Lincoln National reported $5 billion in Revenue and $2.24 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-336 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.21.
In the last 3 years, LNC traded as high as $47.67 and as low as $20.85.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that LNC belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, DVY, VBR.
LNC has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +6.8% while the SPY ETF gained +16.2%. LNC has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -3.1% and -4.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.4% and -0.8%, respectively.
LNC support price is $38.90 and resistance is $40.20 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LNC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
