FirstCash (FCFS) Competitors

FirstCash (NASDAQ:FCFS) and CDW (NASDAQ:CDW) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.

Do analysts rate FCFS or CDW?

FirstCash currently has a consensus price target of $135.67, indicating a potential upside of 11.84%. CDW has a consensus price target of $224.88, indicating a potential upside of 48.20%. Given CDW's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CDW is more favorable than FirstCash.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstCash	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
CDW	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Is FCFS or CDW a better dividend stock?

FirstCash pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. FirstCash pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CDW pays out 31.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in FCFS or CDW?

80.3% of FirstCash shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of CDW shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.8% of FirstCash shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CDW shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FCFS or CDW?

CDW received 555 more outperform votes than FirstCash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave CDW an outperform vote while only 42.22% of users gave FirstCash an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstCash	Outperform Votes 19 42.22%	Underperform Votes 26 57.78%
CDW	Outperform Votes 574 70.00%	Underperform Votes 246 30.00%

Does the media prefer FCFS or CDW?

In the previous week, CDW had 21 more articles in the media than FirstCash. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for CDW and 14 mentions for FirstCash. FirstCash's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat CDW's score of 1.06 indicating that FirstCash is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstCash	12 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
CDW	23 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is FCFS or CDW more profitable?

FirstCash has a net margin of 7.64% compared to CDW's net margin of 5.13%. CDW's return on equity of 55.42% beat FirstCash's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstCash	7.64%	14.99%	6.94%
CDW	5.13%	55.42%	8.94%

Which has more volatility and risk, FCFS or CDW?

FirstCash has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CDW has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better earnings & valuation, FCFS or CDW?

CDW has higher revenue and earnings than FirstCash. CDW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstCash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FirstCash	$3.39B	1.60	$258.82M	$5.73	21.17
CDW	$21.00B	0.96	$1.08B	$7.97	19.04

Summary

CDW beats FirstCash on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.