CONN - Conn's Inc Stock Price, Fair Value and News

3.55USD-0.19 (-5.08%)Delayed as of 22 Apr 2024, 12:55 pm ET

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USD3.55-0.19

Delayedas of 22 Apr 2024, 12:55 pm

-5.08%

CONN Stock Price

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CONN Valuation

Market Cap

90.7M

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

-1.18

Price/Sales (Trailing)

0.07

EV/EBITDA

53.35

Price/Free Cashflow

-0.89

CONN Price/Sales (Trailing)

CONN Profitability

EBT Margin

-9.40%

Return on Equity

-17.67%

Return on Assets

-3.15%

Free Cashflow Yield

-112.78%

CONN Fundamentals

CONN Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

1.2B

Rev. Growth (Yr)

9.32%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

30.68%

CONN Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

-76.9M

Earnings Growth (Yr)

201.16%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

184.41%

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52 Week Range

3.075.26

(Low)(High)

Last 7 days

-8.1%

Last 30 days

6.6%

Last 90 days

-21.7%

Trailing 12 Months

-25.1%

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CONN Financial Health

Current Ratio

2.58

Debt/Equity

1.89

Debt/Cashflow

-0.06

CONN Investor Care

Shares Dilution (1Y)

0.55%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

-3.17

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2024	1.2B	0	0	0
2023	1.3B	1.3B	1.2B	1.2B
2022	1.6B	1.6B	1.5B	1.4B
2021	1.4B	1.4B	1.5B	1.6B
2020	1.5B	1.5B	1.5B	1.4B
2019	1.5B	1.5B	1.6B	1.6B
2018	1.5B	1.5B	1.5B	1.5B
2017	1.6B	1.6B	1.5B	1.5B
2016	1.6B	1.6B	1.6B	1.6B
2015	1.5B	1.5B	1.6B	1.6B
2014	1.4B	1.4B	1.4B	1.4B
2013	1.1B	1.2B	1.2B	1.3B
2012	792.3M	851.4M	935.0M	1.1B
2011	808.8M	803.0M	776.9M	793.0M
2010	887.1M	0	861.0M	834.9M

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of Conn's Inc

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
Feb 01, 2024	lastinger rodney	sold (taxes)	-43,881	4.81	-9,123	president of retail
Feb 01, 2024	prior mark a	sold (taxes)	-26,541	4.81	-5,518	general counsel and sec.
Feb 01, 2024	fenton thomas john	sold (taxes)	-26,897	4.81	-5,592	chief credit officer
Feb 01, 2024	miller norman	sold (taxes)	-199,148	4.81	-41,403	president and ceo
Dec 26, 2023	stephens warren a trust uid 9/30/87	gifted	-	-	-300,000	-
Dec 22, 2023	stephens warren a trust uid 9/30/87	gifted	-	-	300,000	-
Nov 17, 2023	prior mark a	sold (taxes)	-14,823	3.13	-4,736	general counsel and sec.
Nov 17, 2023	lastinger rodney	sold (taxes)	-14,823	3.13	-4,736	president of retail
Nov 17, 2023	fenton thomas john	sold (taxes)	-14,823	3.13	-4,736	chief credit officer
Nov 17, 2023	bchara george l	sold (taxes)	-14,823	3.13	-4,736	evp & cfo

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
Apr 16, 2024	Arlington Partners LLC	sold off	-100	-44,400	-	-%
Apr 03, 2024	Versant Capital Management, Inc	unchanged	-	-45.00	141	-%
Apr 03, 2024	Stephens Group, LLC	unchanged	-	-4,597,480	14,129,900	5.63%
Mar 11, 2024	VANGUARD GROUP INC	reduced	-10.97	2,174	2,822,520	-%
Mar 01, 2024	GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC	added	104	165,293	292,542	-%
Feb 16, 2024	PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/	unchanged	-	10,000	84,000	-%
Feb 16, 2024	GSA CAPITAL PARTNERS LLP	added	34.14	161,000	477,000	0.04%
Feb 16, 2024	PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF OHIO	added	25.88	5,242	16,242	-%
Feb 15, 2024	BARCLAYS PLC	unchanged	-	7,000	64,000	-%
Feb 15, 2024	Nantahala Capital Management, LLC	new	-	3,191,210	3,191,210	0.10%

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Unveiling Conn's Inc's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 09, 2024	dimensional fund advisors lp	4.6%	1,119,283	SC 13G/A
Feb 02, 2024	stephens investments holdings llc	2.3%	560,756	SC 13D/A
Jan 29, 2024	blackrock inc.	6.6%	1,622,656	SC 13G/A
Feb 10, 2023	dimensional fund advisors lp	6.3%	1,504,552	SC 13G/A
Jan 06, 2023	blackrock inc.	8.1%	1,938,539	SC 13G/A
Feb 08, 2022	dimensional fund advisors lp	7.0%	2,069,195	SC 13G/A
Jan 28, 2022	blackrock inc.	13.5%	3,987,698	SC 13G/A
Jan 28, 2022	stephens group, llc	14.59%	4,305,343	SC 13D
Dec 06, 2021	stephens investments holdings llc	7.4%	560,756	SC 13D/A
Feb 12, 2021	dimensional fund advisors lp	7.5%	2,176,690	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of Conn's Inc

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
Apr 18, 2024	DEFA14A	DEFA14A
Apr 18, 2024	DEF 14A	DEF 14A
Apr 18, 2024	10-K	Annual Report
Apr 16, 2024	NT 10-K	NT 10-K
Apr 11, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Mar 04, 2024	8-K/A	Current Report
Feb 16, 2024	8-K	Current Report
Feb 09, 2024	SC 13G/A	Major Ownership Report
Feb 05, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 05, 2024	4	Insider Trading

Peers (Alternatives to Conn's Inc)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
ORLY	64.4B	15.8B	-4.72%	20.53%	27.45	4.07	9.73%	8.01%
AZO	51.6B	17.8B	-6.36%	10.47%	19.7	2.9	5.57%	8.38%
TSCO	27.3B	14.6B	-1.64%	1.53%	24.64	1.87	2.47%	1.70%
GPC	22.6B	23.1B	4.52%	-3.73%	17.93	0.98	2.40%	1.66%
BBY	16.4B	43.5B	-3.12%	4.90%	13.21	0.38	-6.15%	-12.54%
DKS	16.1B	13.0B	-11.05%	33.41%	15.34	1.24	4.98%	0.32%
FIVE	8.3B	3.6B	-28.09%	-25.91%	27.56	2.33	15.70%	15.13%
MID-CAP
AAP	4.7B	11.3B	-7.23%	-38.69%	157.59	0.42	1.19%	-93.06%
GME	3.2B	5.3B	-22.77%	-48.52%	475.7	0.6	-11.04%	102.14%
JWN	3.1B	14.7B	-2.32%	14.38%	23.14	0.21	-5.39%	-45.51%
SMALL-CAP
EYE	1.5B	2.1B	-17.98%	-6.80%	-22.32	0.69	6.04%	-256.45%
BBW	399.7M	486.1M	-3.39%	14.49%	7.57	0.82	3.88%	10.04%
CONN	90.7M	1.2B	6.59%	-25.15%	-1.18	0.07	-7.81%	-29.69%
BGFV	69.3M	884.7M	-16.22%	-60.61%	-9.79	0.08	-11.13%	-127.10%
BNED	12.2M	1.6B	-62.90%	-84.46%	-0.15	0.01	1.32%	-23.33%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Revenue	30.7%	366	280	307	285	335	321	347	340	402	405	418	364	368	334	367	317	413	376	401	354	433
Costs and Expenses	30.8%	417	319	322	305	368	339	339	326	387	376	364	294	341	310	325	379	390	346	359	314	379
S&GA Expenses	27.0%	166	131	135	129	137	126	130	133	142	138	138	126	128	122	115	113	132	126	127	118	127
EBITDA Margin	125.8%	0.01*	-0.05*	-0.03*	-0.01*	0.01*	0.05*	0.07*	0.10*	0.13*	0.14*	0.15*	0.14*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	16.2%	26.00	22.00	17.00	16.00	13.00	11.00	7.00	6.00	5.00	5.00	6.00	9.00	11.00	12.00	13.00	15.00	15.00	15.00	14.00	14.00	15.00
Income Taxes	-207.2%	-29.52	-9.61	1.00	-1.70	-3.71	-4.63	-0.91	2.00	2.00	6.00	11.00	14.00	-8.00	5.00	8.00	-21.03	2.00	4.00	7.00	5.00	9.00
Earnings Before Taxes	122.6%	14.00	-60.91	-32.14	-37.08	-46.52	-29.47	1.00	8.00	10.00	24.00	48.00	59.00	17.00	13.00	28.00	-77.23	7.00	15.00	27.00	25.00	39.00
EBT Margin	35.8%	-0.09*	-0.15*	-0.12*	-0.09*	-0.05*	-0.01*	0.03*	0.06*	0.09*	0.10*	0.09*	0.08*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Income	184.4%	43.00	-51.30	-33.52	-35.38	-42.80	-24.84	2.00	6.00	14.00	6.00	37.00	45.00	25.00	7.00	21.00	-56.20	5.00	11.00	20.00	20.00	29.00
Net Income Margin	54.0%	-0.06*	-0.14*	-0.11*	-0.08*	-0.04*	0.00*	0.02*	0.04*	0.06*	0.07*	0.08*	0.07*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	-359.6%	-62.31	-13.56	-36.36	10.00	-34.84	-5.35	-0.48	28.00	-2.98	-23.25	36.00	121	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Assets	41.6%	2,444	1,726	1,702	1,676	1,716	1,737	1,755	1,728	1,754	1,787	1,709	1,682	1,755	1,933	1,842	2,237	2,169	2,153	2,146	2,090	1,885
Current Assets	49.0%	1,204	808	814	809	831	821	842	807	821	853	833	814	844	969	846	1,197	1,059	1,044	1,032	1,019	1,011
Cash Equivalents	1172.1%	71.00	6.00	9.00	14.00	20.00	54.00	72.00	43.00	40.00	36.00	40.00	58.00	60.00	186	70.00	361	81.00	54.00	76.00	88.00	65.00
Inventory	44.1%	334	232	234	237	241	259	263	256	247	263	224	203	196	216	181	205	220	248	214	213	220
Net PPE	-100.0%	-	215	222	208	219	219	211	209	193	189	186	187	191	191	192	187	173	172	174	154	149
Liabilities	45.7%	1,947	1,336	1,263	1,207	1,214	1,194	1,195	1,173	1,140	1,123	1,066	1,078	1,198	1,405	1,323	1,741	1,542	1,526	1,509	1,442	1,265
Current Liabilities	95.0%	467	239	248	220	222	247	242	245	258	287	261	218	212	217	194	185	162	213	206	188	225
Short Term Borrowings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.00	-	54.00
Long Term Debt	102.2%	821	406	248	328	636	478	604	268	522	147	216	342	609	575	458	611	1,026	441	560	722	901
LT Debt, Current	-87.6%	1.00	8.00	9.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00	3.00	25.00	54.00
LT Debt, Non Current	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	609	-	-	-	1,026	-	-	-	901
Shareholder's Equity	11.4%	435	391	439	470	502	543	560	554	615	554	642	604	557	528	519	496	627	627	637	648	620
Retained Earnings	10.3%	463	420	471	505	540	583	608	605	599	592	573	536	491	466	458	438	494	569	554	534	508
Additional Paid-In Capital	0.8%	165	164	161	158	156	153	145	142	140	138	135	133	132	129	126	124	123	120	117	113	111
Shares Outstanding	0.0%	24.00	24.00	24.00	24.00	24.00	24.00	24.00	25.00	29.00	29.00	29.00	29.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Float	-	-	-	46.00	-	-	-	84.00	-	-	-	327	-	-	-	140	-	-	-	305	-	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Cashflow From Operations	-1435.6%	-51,487	-3,353	-22,542	26,148	-12,083	9,705	15,710	47,116	8,726	-9,263	46,166	130,773	76,653	79,737	153,201	152,524	-12,463	3,085	39,784	49,660	-30,293
Share Based Compensation	-49.7%	1,358	2,700	3,200	3,000	1,968	2,400	3,200	3,409	2,546	2,600	1,700	2,039	2,336	2,300	2,300	2,400	2,700	3,200	3,400	3,200	3,717
Cashflow From Investing	30.4%	-7,105	-10,204	-13,820	-16,211	-22,760	-15,060	-16,189	-18,957	-11,709	-13,988	-9,705	-9,457	-9,283	-14,185	-15,777	-16,682	-9,222	-14,270	-20,211	-13,119	-10,205
Cashflow From Financing	258.5%	82,353	22,970	27,820	-24,187	41,278	-12,820	29,208	-24,414	6,495	19,679	-54,979	-123,361	-193,306	50,423	-427,995	144,095	48,621	-10,678	-31,601	-13,668	31,900
Buy Backs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3,471	68,225	55,384	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7,219	24,727	34,344	-	-

CONN Income Statement

2024-01-31

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 31, 2024	Jan. 31, 2023	Jan. 31, 2022
Revenues:
Total net sales	$ 978,331	$ 1,076,590	$ 1,305,389
Finance charges and other revenues	259,352	265,937	284,642
Total revenues	1,237,683	1,342,527	1,590,031
Costs and expenses:
Cost of goods sold	629,688	710,234	825,987
Selling, general and administrative expense	561,628	526,212	544,490
Provision for bad debts	154,080	121,193	48,184
Charges and credits	17,565	14,360	2,677
Total costs and expenses	1,362,961	1,371,999	1,421,338
Operating (loss) income	(125,278)	(29,472)	168,693
Interest expense	81,707	36,891	25,758
Gain (Loss) on Extinguishment of Debt	(14,221)	0	(1,218)
Gain from bargain purchase	(104,857)	0	0
(Loss) income before income taxes	(116,349)	(66,363)	141,717
(Benefit) provision for income taxes	(39,456)	(7,071)	33,512
Net (loss) income	$ (76,893)	$ (59,292)	$ 108,205
Earnings (loss) per share:
Basic (in dollars per share)	$ (3.17)	$ (2.46)	$ 3.70
Diluted (in dollars per share)	$ (3.17)	$ (2.46)	$ 3.61
Weighted average common shares outstanding:
Basic (in shares)	24,250,000	24,117,000	29,268,000
Diluted (in shares)	24,250,000	24,117,000	30,001,000
Product sales
Revenues:
Total net sales	$ 896,830	$ 986,600	$ 1,205,545
Repair service agreement commissions
Revenues:
Total net sales	72,738	80,446	89,101
Service revenues
Revenues:
Total net sales	$ 8,763	$ 9,544	$ 10,743

CONN Balance Sheet

2024-01-31

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Jan. 31, 2024	Jan. 31, 2023
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 18,703	$ 19,534
Restricted cash (includes VIE balances of $49,940 and $38,727, respectively)	52,050	40,837
Customer accounts receivable, net of allowance (includes VIE balances of $351,825 and $251,689, respectively)	419,005	421,683
Other accounts receivable	50,559	56,887
Inventories	333,962	240,783
Income taxes receivable	44,352	38,436
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	18,679	12,937
Assets, Current	1,204,096	831,097
Long-term portion of customer accounts receivable, net of allowances (includes VIE balances of $276,700 and $181,575, respectively)	364,996	389,054
Property and equipment, net	250,468	218,956
Operating lease right-of-use assets	556,416	262,104
Other assets	30,701	15,004
Total assets	2,444,042	1,716,215
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	98,567	71,685
Accrued compensation and related expenses	19,309	13,285
Accrued expenses	97,775	69,334
Operating lease liability	82,153	53,208
Income taxes payable	2,693	2,869
Deferred revenues and other credits	16,288	11,043
Total current liabilities	466,523	222,361
Operating lease liability - non current	598,712	331,109
Long-term debt and finance lease obligations (includes VIE balances of $$571,166 and $410,790 respectively)	820,787	636,079
Deferred tax liability	5,603	2,041
Other long-term liabilities	34,078	22,215
Total liabilities	1,946,544	1,213,805
Commitments and contingencies
Temporary Equity, Carrying Amount, Attributable to Parent	62,246	0
Stockholders’ equity:
Common stock ($0.01 par value, 100,000 shares authorized; 33,992 and 33,379 shares issued, respectively)	340	334
Treasury stock (at cost; 9,405 shares and 9,405 shares, respectively)	(193,370)	(193,370)
Additional paid-in capital	164,966	155,523
Retained earnings	463,316	539,923
Total stockholders’ equity	435,252	502,410
Total liabilities, mezzanine equity, and stockholders’ equity	2,444,042	1,716,215
Long-term debt	571,166
VIE
Current assets:
Customer accounts receivable, net of allowance (includes VIE balances of $351,825 and $251,689, respectively)	351,825	251,689
Total assets	852,096	471,991
Current liabilities:
Accrued expenses	1,155	3,475
Total liabilities	723,349	421,092
Stockholders’ equity:
Long-term debt	571,166	410,790
Long-Term Debt
Current liabilities:
Secured Long-Term Debt, Noncurrent	20,841	0
Short-Term Debt
Current liabilities:
Short-term debt and finance lease obligations	1,923	937
Secured Debt, Current	147,815	0
Short-Term Debt \| VIE
Current liabilities:
Secured Debt, Current	147,815
Receivables, Fair Value Disclosure, Noncurrent
Current assets:
Receivables, Fair Value Disclosure	37,365	0
Receivables, Fair Value Disclosure, Current \| VIE
Current assets:
Receivables, Fair Value Disclosure, Current	$ 266,786	$ 0

About Conn's Inc

Conn's, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of durable consumer goods and related services in the United States. It operates through two segments, Retail and Credit. The company's stores offer home appliances, such as refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, dishwashers, and ranges; and furniture and mattress, including furniture and related accessories for the living room, dining room, and bedroom, as well as flat and other mattresses. Its stores also provide consumer electronics comprising LED, OLED, QLED, 4K Ultra HD, 8K televisions, video game consoles, gaming products, and home theater and portable audio equipment; and home office products, including computers, tablets, monitors, and accessories. In addition, the company offers short- and medium-term financing to its retail customers; and product support services, which comprise next-day delivery and installation services, credit insurance products, product repair services, and repair service agreements. It operates retail locations in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Conn's, Inc. was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

CEO	Mr. Norman L. Miller
WEBSITE	conns.com
INDUSTRY	Internet Retail
EMPLOYEES	4000

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What is the fair value of CONN stock?

You can check CONN's fair value in chart for subscribers. The fair value of Conn's Inc is provided for various growth and macro-economic scenarios from very pessimiatic to very optimistic assumptions. These fair values are estimates from Grufity's Fair Value model based on company's past performance. However, past performance of Conn's Inc is no guarantee of future performance. These fairvalue estimates should only be used as one of the inputs in your stock analysis. We provide model's historical fair value estimates for CONN so that you know how good or bad the model has been in the past so you can discard it if needed. There are others that provide fair values of stocks such as wallmine, finbox, gurufocus and finviz. Most provide point in time estimates. We provide a history of our models fair value estimates so that you can get a sense of it's usefulness. Otherwise this data point is of little use.

Is Conn's Inc a good stock to buy?

The fair value guage provides a quick view whether CONN is over valued or under valued. Whether Conn's Inc is cheap or expensive depends on the assumptions which impact Conn's Inc's fair value. We provide several scenarios of inflation and growth to encompass these range of assumptions for CONN.

What is Conn's Inc's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

As of Fri Apr 19 2024, CONN's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is -1.18 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 0.07. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. CONN PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.

What is 5 year return on Conn's Inc's stock?

In the past 10 years, Conn's Inc has provided -0.224 (multiply by 100 for percentage) rate of return.