Rent-A-Center (RCII) Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rent-A-Center in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" RCII shares.
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6 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Rent-A-Center's stock. Their RCII share price forecasts range from $30.00 to $42.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $34.50 in the next year.
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Rent-A-Center, Inc. (NASDAQ:RCII) posted its earnings results on Thursday, February, 23rd. The company reported $0.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.75 by $0.11. The firm earned $990.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $990.45 million. Rent-A-Center had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 40.50% and a net margin of 0.29%. The firm's revenue was down 15.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.08 EPS.

Rent-A-Center declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 7th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 20th will be given a dividend of $0.34 per share on Tuesday, January 10th. This represents a $1.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of ∞. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 19th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Rent-A-Center (NASDAQ:RCII) stock in their portfolio include WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Fund (EES).Vanguard U.S. Quality Factor ETF (VFQY).

Rent-A-Center (NASDAQ:RCII) pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.08%. RCII has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 680.00%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, RCII will have a dividend payout ratio of 39.53% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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189 employees have rated Rent-A-Center Chief Executive Officer Mitch Fadel on Glassdoor.com. Mitch Fadel has an approval rating of 53% among the company's employees. This puts Mitch Fadel in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

Rent-A-Center's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Susquehanna International Group LLP (0.00%), Muzinich & Co. Inc. (0.00%), Group One Trading L.P. (0.00%), Boundary Creek Advisors LP (0.00%) and Cutler Group LLC CA (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Ann L Davids, Anthony J Blasquez, Anthony J Blasquez, Catherine M Skula, Christopher B Hetrick, Jeffrey J Brown, Maureen B Short, Mitchell E Fadel and Mitchell E Fadel.
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Rent-A-Center (NASDAQ:RCII) has a market capitalization of $0.00 and generates $4.25 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $12.36 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.20 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 14,290 workers across the globe.

Rent-A-Center's mailing address is 5501 HEADQUARTERS DRIVE, PLANO TX, 75024. The official website for the company is www.rentacenter.com. The company can be reached via phone at (972) 801-1100, via email at maureen.short@rentacenter.com, or via fax at 972-943-0113.