NASDAQ:RCII - Rent-A-Center Stock Price, Forecast & News

Rent-A-Center trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "RCII."

Rent-A-Center announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 9th. Shareholders of record on Monday, January 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.29 per share on Wednesday, January 29th. This represents a $1.16 annualized dividend and a yield of 4.30%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 3rd. This is a positive change from Rent-A-Center's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. View Rent-A-Center's Dividend History.

Rent-A-Center Inc (NASDAQ:RCII) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company reported $0.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.03. The business had revenue of $649.37 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $630.83 million. Rent-A-Center had a net margin of 5.09% and a return on equity of 31.75%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up .7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.32 EPS. View Rent-A-Center's Earnings History.

Rent-A-Center is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 24th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Rent-A-Center.

Rent-A-Center will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 24th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

6 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Rent-A-Center's shares. Their forecasts range from $22.00 to $28.00. On average, they expect Rent-A-Center's stock price to reach $26.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for Rent-A-Center.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rent-A-Center in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating, 3 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Rent-A-Center.

News articles about RCII stock have been trending extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Rent-A-Center earned a news impact score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Rent-A-Center.

Rent-A-Center saw a drop in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,430,000 shares, a drop of 25.5% from the January 15th total of 5,950,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 640,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.9 days. Approximately 8.2% of the company's stock are sold short. View Rent-A-Center's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Rent-A-Center investors own include Aaron's (AAN), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), NVIDIA (NVDA), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), Paypal (PYPL), Mcdonald's (MCD), AT&T (T), Activision Blizzard (ATVI) and Seagate Technology (STX).

Rent-A-Center's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Renaissance Technologies LLC (8.01%), State Street Corp (2.73%), Royce & Associates LP (2.11%), Acadian Asset Management LLC (1.58%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.56%) and SG Capital Management LLC (1.04%). Company insiders that own Rent-A-Center stock include Catherine M Skula, Christopher A Korst, Engaged Capital Llc and Fred E Herman. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Rent-A-Center.

RCII stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of Montreal Can, Renaissance Technologies LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC, Martingale Asset Management L P, Arizona State Retirement System, First Trust Advisors LP and State Street Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rent-A-Center.

RCII stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Royce & Associates LP, SG Capital Management LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Acadian Asset Management LLC and Maverick Capital Ltd.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rent-A-Center.

Shares of RCII can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of RCII stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.00.

Rent-A-Center has a market capitalization of $1.48 billion and generates $2.66 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $8.49 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.06 on an earnings per share basis. Rent-A-Center employs 14,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Rent-A-Center.

The official website for Rent-A-Center is http://www.rentacenter.com/.

Rent-A-Center's mailing address is 5501 HEADQUARTERS DRIVE, PLANO TX, 75024. The company can be reached via phone at 972-801-1100 or via email at [email protected]