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title: "First Cash Financial Services, Inc."
url: https://duttonassociates.com/research/FCFS/
description: "Company profile for First Cash Financial Services, Inc. (FCFS) as published by Dutton Associates, with company facts and the firm's published research on the company."
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# First Cash Financial Services, Inc.

FCFS

NASDAQ NMS

690 East Lamar Boulevard
Suite 400
Arlington, Texas 76011
(817) 460-3947

First Cash Financial Services, Inc. is the nation's third largest publicly traded pawnshop operator and currently owns and operates pawn stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia, and Mexico. The Company's pawn stores engage in both consumer finance and retail sales activities. The Company's pawn stores provide a convenient source for consumer loans, lending money against pledged tangible personal property such as jewelry, electronic equipment, tools, sporting goods and musical equipment. These pawn stores also function as retailers of previously-owned merchandise acquired in forfeited pawn transactions and over-the-counter purchases from customers. The Company's pawn stores also offer short-term, secured advances ("payroll advances").

The Company also currently owns check cashing and payroll advance stores in California, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Texas and Washington D.C. These stores provide a broad range of consumer financial services, including check cashing, money order sales, wire transfers, bill payment services and payroll advances. In addition, the Company is a 50% partner in Cash & Go, Ltd., a joint venture, which owns financial service kiosks located inside convenience stores.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2001, revenues were $82.3 million, versus $78 million in the corresponding prior period. Its third quarter ended September 30, 2001 had revenues of $26.6 million, versus $25.7 million in the year earlier quarter. Diluted EPS for the 2001 nine months were $.60 (versus $.13 in the corresponding year earlier period), while Q3 diluted EPS were $.20 versus $.13 in the prior year's third quarter.

## Company Facts

**Symbol**: FCFS

**Exchange**: NASDAQ NMS

**Equity Data**: (as of 9/30/01)

**Shares Outstanding**: 8,754,687 shares

**Recent Trading Price**: $7.87

**J.M. Dutton Analyst**: Richard W. West, CFA

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## Published Research

- 02/20/2003Research noteFirst Cash Financial Projects First Quarter Results Confirms Fy2003 Projections
- 01/31/2003Research noteFirst Cash Financialís Record Results For Q4 and 2002 Exceeds Our Estimates
- 12/26/2002Research note$1 Million First Cash Stock Sales Applied To Reduction of Officers Loans
- 12/18/2002Research noteFirst Cash Is On A Roll
- 12/03/2002Research reportFirst Cash Rerported Results Accelerating; Strong Buy Rating Reiterated
- 10/25/2002Research noteFirst Cash's Q3 EPS Up 35% and 33% for Nine Months; Strong Buy Rating Reiterated
- 09/26/2002Research noteFirst Cash Financial Increases Its Projected Q3 and FY 02 Results; Strong Buy Reiterated
- 09/17/2002Research reportFirst Cash Financial Reiterated As Strong Buy In Quarterly Update