How to buy Rent-A-Center stock

Rent-A-Center, Inc is a rental & leasing services business based in the US. Rent-A-Center shares (RCII) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Rent-A-Center employs 14,500 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.8 billion.

How to buy shares in Rent-A-Center

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Rent-A-Center. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: RCII. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Rent-A-Center reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Rent-A-Center, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Rent-A-Center. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Rent-A-Center share price

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Rent-A-Center shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-24.

52-week range	USD$11.2191 - USD$54.87
50-day moving average	USD$47.6127
200-day moving average	USD$36.4322
Wall St. target price	USD$52.29
PE ratio	15.7517
Dividend yield	USD$1.12 (2.06%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$3.439

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Rent-A-Center financials

Revenue TTM	USD$2.8 billion
Operating margin TTM	9.75%
Gross profit TTM	USD$1.6 billion
Return on assets TTM	10.65%
Return on equity TTM	39.49%
Profit margin	6.95%
Book value	$10.018
Market capitalisation	USD$3.5 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Rent-A-Center shares

There are currently 1.7 million Rent-A-Center shares held short by investors – that's known as Rent-A-Center's "short interest". This figure is 7.5% up from 1.6 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Rent-A-Center shares can be evaluated.

Rent-A-Center's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Rent-A-Center's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Rent-A-Center shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Rent-A-Center shares traded daily (recently around 586645.79124579). Rent-A-Center's SIR currently stands at 2.97. In other words for every 100,000 Rent-A-Center shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2970 shares are currently held short.

However Rent-A-Center's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Rent-A-Center shares, or, against the total number of tradable Rent-A-Center shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Rent-A-Center's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Rent-A-Center shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0522% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Rent-A-Center shares, roughly 52 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Rent-A-Center.

Find out more about how you can short Rent-A-Center stock.

Have Rent-A-Center's shares ever split?

Rent-A-Center's shares were split on a 5:2 basis on 2 September 2003. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 5 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Rent-A-Center shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 60% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Rent-A-Center shares which in turn could have impacted Rent-A-Center's share price.

Rent-A-Center share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Rent-A-Center's shares have ranged in value from as little as $11.2191 up to $54.87. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Rent-A-Center's is 1.6265. This would suggest that Rent-A-Center's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Rent-A-Center overview

Rent-A-Center, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, leases household durable goods to customers on a lease-to-own basis. The company operates through four segments: Rent-A-Center Business, Preferred Lease, Mexico, and Franchising. It offers consumer electronics, computers, tablets, smartphones, furniture and accessories, appliances, wheels and tires, tools, handbags, jewelry, and other accessories under rental purchase agreements. The company also provides merchandise on an installment sales basis; and lease-to-own transaction to consumers who do not qualify for financing from the traditional retailer through kiosks located within retailer's locations. It operates retail installment sales stores under the Get It Now and Home Choice names; lease-to-own and franchised lease-to-own stores under the Rent-A-Centre, ColorTyme, and RimTyme names; and rentacenter.com, an e-commerce platform. As of December 31, 2019, the company owned and operated approximately 1,973 stores in the United States and Puerto Rico, including 44 retail installment sales stores; 998 Preferred Lease staffed locations in 41 states and Puerto Rico; and 123 stores in Mexico, as well as franchised 372 lease-to-own stores in 33 states. Rent-A-Center, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Rent-A-Center is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.357% of Rent-A-Center shares are held by insiders and 97.9% by institutions.

• How many people work for Rent-A-Center?

  Latest data suggests 14,500 work at Rent-A-Center.

• When does the fiscal year end for Rent-A-Center?

  Rent-A-Center's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Rent-A-Center based?

  Rent-A-Center's address is: 5501 Headquarters Drive, Plano, TX, United States, 75024

• What is Rent-A-Center's ISIN number?

  Rent-A-Center's international securities identification number is: US76009N1000

• What is Rent-A-Center's CUSIP number?

  Rent-A-Center's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 76009N100