Company: FCFS
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000840489-25-000098
Chunk: 131

Company: FirstCash Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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fees and expenses related to the offering. The Company paid debt issuance costs of $9.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. The Company funded $60.5 million of share repurchases during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to $85.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. The Company paid dividends of $33.8 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to $31.7 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024. In addition, the Company paid withholding taxes of $5.8 million on net share settlements of restricted stock awards during the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to $7.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2024.

GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION UPDATE   

The Company’s pawn and retail POS payment solutions businesses are subject to significant regulation in all of the jurisdictions in which it operates. Existing regulations and regulatory developments are further and more completely described under “Governmental Regulation” in Part I, Item 1 of the Company’s 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 3, 2025 and in subsequent documents filed with the SEC. Other than as described below, there have been no changes to the significant regulation that the Company’s businesses are subject to that the Company believes would have a material impact on its businesses or results of operation from those described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Actions of the current administration could result in changes in federal policy with significant impacts on the legal and regulatory framework affecting the industries in which the related consumers are involved. These changes, including restructuring and widespread personnel changes at the applicable regulatory agencies, may alter the nature and scope of oversight affecting such industries. The nature, timing and economic and political effects of potential changes affecting such industries generally remains uncertain and it is possible that such uncertainty may adversely affect the Company.

On October 6, 2017, the CFPB issued its small-dollar lending rule (the “SDL Rule”), which was subsequently revised on July 7, 2020. The SDL Rule imposes certain obligations and limitations associated with the origination and servicing of covered transactions. Traditional possessory, non-recourse pawn loans are not covered under the SDL Rule but some of the RISA transactions that AFF purchases and some of the bank loans