FirstCash, Inc. (FCFS) Dividends

FCFS Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. In the case of FCFS, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a negative return of 18.79% relative to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of FirstCash Holdings Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• With a market cap of roughly $3 billion, FCFS is in the mid-sized market cap class; here, it has a lower equity discount rate than 77.68% of stocks.
• Compared to other dividend issuers in the mid-sized market cap category, FCFS's beta -- a measure of volatility relative to the market at large -- is lower than 80.26% of them.
• In terms of who is growing the amount of dividends they return to shareholders, FCFS boasts a higher growth rate in terms of its annual cash distributed to its owners than 98.03% of the dividend issuers in our set.

FCFS Dividends vs. Peers