Rent-A-Center, Inc. is close to a major resistance level, whereby the breach of this level could be considered as a buy signal. This reflects our preferred scenario in light of the stock's current technical chart pattern.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
● The stock, which is currently worth 2020 to 0.7 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 9.45 and 9.44 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2021 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 20.49 USD
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.
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Upbound Group, Inc. is a lease-to-own provider with operations in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. The Company operates through four segments: Acima, Rent-A-Center, Mexico, and Franchising. Acima segment generally offers lease-to-own transactions to consumers who do not qualify for traditional financing. Rent-A-Center Business segment consists of the Company-owned lease-to-own stores in the United States and Puerto Rico. The segment operates 1,839 company owned stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, including 52 retail installment sales stores under the names Get It Now and Home Choice. The segment operates approximately 131 stores in Mexico. The stores in its Franchising segment use its Rent-A-Center, ColorTyme or RimTyme trade names, service marks, trademarks, and logos. The segment franchises approximately 440 stores in 30 states operating under the Rent-A-Center (392 stores), ColorTyme (18 stores) and RimTyme (37 stores) trade names.