Rent-A-Center Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:RCII)

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

Rent-A-Center announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 5th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 23rd will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Wednesday, October 9th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.74%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, September 20th. This is a positive change from Rent-A-Center's previous quarterly dividend of $0.08. View Rent-A-Center's Dividend History.

Rent-A-Center Inc (NASDAQ:RCII) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August, 7th. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.56 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $655.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $642.86 million. Rent-A-Center had a return on equity of 32.63% and a net margin of 4.40%. Rent-A-Center's revenue was up .0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.47 earnings per share. View Rent-A-Center's Earnings History.

Rent-A-Center is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Rent-A-Center.

Rent-A-Center updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 7th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.05-2.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.09. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.595-2.640 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.62 billion.

4 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Rent-A-Center's stock. Their predictions range from $18.00 to $28.00. On average, they expect Rent-A-Center's share price to reach $24.40 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Rent-A-Center.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rent-A-Center in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 1 buy rating and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Rent-A-Center.

Media stories about RCII stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Rent-A-Center earned a news sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Rent-A-Center.

Rent-A-Center saw a decline in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 5,290,000 shares, a decline of 11.4% from the August 30th total of 5,970,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 795,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.7 days. Approximately 9.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Rent-A-Center's Current Options Chain.

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Rent-A-Center's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.25%), Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.11%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.07%), Strs Ohio (0.06%), Hexavest Inc. (0.04%) and Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC (0.02%). 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 Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Hennessy Advisors Inc., Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC and Strs Ohio. Company insiders that have sold Rent-A-Center company stock in the last year include Catherine M Skula, Christopher A Korst and Fred E Herman. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rent-A-Center.

RCII stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Hexavest Inc. and Navellier & Associates Inc. 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 $26.74.

Rent-A-Center has a market capitalization of $1.45 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]