Firstcash Stock Market Value

FCFS Stock  USD 104.40  1.43  1.39%   
FirstCash's market value is the price at which a share of FirstCash trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of FirstCash investors about its performance. FirstCash is selling for under 104.40 as of the 24th of November 2024; that is 1.39 percent increase since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's lowest day price was 103.1.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of FirstCash and determine expected loss or profit from investing in FirstCash over a given investment horizon. Check out FirstCash Correlation, FirstCash Volatility and FirstCash Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on FirstCash.
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FirstCash Price To Book Ratio

Is Consumer Finance space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of FirstCash. If investors know FirstCash will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about FirstCash listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.143
Dividend Share
1.43
Earnings Share
5.41
Revenue Per Share
74.459
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.065
The market value of FirstCash is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of FirstCash that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of FirstCash's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is FirstCash's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because FirstCash's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect FirstCash's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between FirstCash's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if FirstCash is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, FirstCash's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

FirstCash 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to FirstCash's stock what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of FirstCash.
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In 11 months and 27 days
11/24/2024
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If you would invest  0.00  in FirstCash on November 30, 2023 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding FirstCash or generate 0.0% return on investment in FirstCash over 360 days. FirstCash is related to or competes with World Acceptance, Enova International, Green Dot, Medallion Financial, SLM Corp, Navient Corp, and Nelnet. FirstCash Holdings, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates retail pawn stores in the United States, Mexico, and r... More

FirstCash Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure FirstCash's stock current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess FirstCash upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

FirstCash Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for FirstCash's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as FirstCash's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use FirstCash historical prices to predict the future FirstCash's volatility.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
102.15103.73105.31
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Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
93.96110.21111.79
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Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
100.80102.38103.96
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6 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
102.83113.00125.43
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Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as FirstCash. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against FirstCash's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, FirstCash's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in FirstCash.

FirstCash Backtested Returns

FirstCash secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of -0.11, which denotes the company had a -0.11% return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. FirstCash exposes twenty-four different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please confirm FirstCash's Mean Deviation of 1.13, standard deviation of 1.58, and Variance of 2.5 to check the risk estimate we provide. The firm shows a Beta (market volatility) of 0.9, which means possible diversification benefits within a given portfolio. FirstCash returns are very sensitive to returns on the market. As the market goes up or down, FirstCash is expected to follow. At this point, FirstCash has a negative expected return of -0.17%. Please make sure to confirm FirstCash's treynor ratio, kurtosis, as well as the relationship between the Kurtosis and day typical price , to decide if FirstCash performance from the past will be repeated at some point in the near future.

Auto-correlation

    
  0.44  

Average predictability

FirstCash has average predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between FirstCash time series from 30th of November 2023 to 28th of May 2024 and 28th of May 2024 to 24th of November 2024. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of FirstCash price movement. The serial correlation of 0.44 indicates that just about 44.0% of current FirstCash price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient0.44
Spearman Rank Test-0.03
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance24.57

FirstCash lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is FirstCash stock's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting FirstCash's stock expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of FirstCash returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that FirstCash has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the stock is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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FirstCash regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If FirstCash stock is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if FirstCash stock is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in FirstCash stock over time.
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FirstCash Lagged Returns

When evaluating FirstCash's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of FirstCash stock have on its future price. FirstCash autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, FirstCash autocorrelation shows the relationship between FirstCash stock current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in FirstCash.
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