Rent-A-Center is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides ownership of products, such as appliances and consumer electronics, under lease purchase agreements with no long-term obligation. Co.'s segments are: Rent-A-Center Business, which operates retail installment sales stores under the names Get It Now and Home Choice; Preferred Lease, which provides an on-site lease-to-own option at a third-party retailer's location; Mexico, which consists of its company-owned lease-to-own stores in Mexico; and Franchising, which sells rental merchandise to its franchisees who, in turn, provide the merchandise to the general public for rent or purchase under a lease-to-own transaction. The RCII stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the RCII stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2013 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the RCII annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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