FirstCash, Inc. (FCFS): Price and Financial Metrics

FCFS POWR Grades

• FCFS scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 68.42% of US stocks.
• FCFS's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• FCFS's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 30.04% of US stocks).

FCFS Stock Summary

• FCFS's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 186.3 -- higher than 86.9% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 76.41%, FirstCash Holdings Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 87.36% of about US stocks.
• FirstCash Holdings Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -16.65%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 19.91% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to FirstCash Holdings Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be GSBC, CTBI, MNRO, FLO, and IPAR.
• FCFS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit FirstCash Holdings Inc's official web site, go to www.firstcash.com.

FCFS Valuation Summary

• FCFS's EV/EBIT ratio is 24.6; this is 186.05% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 243 months, FCFS's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.5.
• Over the past 243 months, FCFS's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FCFS.

FCFS Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 162.5%.
• The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -30.67%.
• The 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 170.12%.

Over the past 34 months, FCFS's revenue has gone down $99,697,000.

The table below shows FCFS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	1,698.965	223.304	124.909
2021-09-30	1,589.349	182.748	128.264
2021-06-30	1,549.565	192.714	109.93
2021-03-31	1,572.733	214.053	107.376
2020-12-31	1,631.284	222.264	106.579
2020-09-30	1,737.488	245.138	128.007

FCFS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• FCFS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 48.6% of graded US stocks.
• FCFS's asset turnover comes in at 0.658 -- ranking 153rd of 165 Retail stocks.
• CNXN, NUZE, and VLGEA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FCFS.

The table below shows FCFS's key quality metrics over time.