Company: FCFS
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000840489-25-000055
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Company: FirstCash Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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### Executive Summary of 2024 Compensation Results
The Compensation Committee believes its 2024 compensation actions and outcomes properly reflected the Company’s strong financial and stockholder return performance and progress on key strategic initiatives. Outlined below are the 2024 Financial and Operating Result Highlights, Long-Term Total Stockholder Return Results and Key 2024 Compensation Outcomes:

#### 2024 Financial and Operating Results Highlights
Financial highlights reflective of the Company’s strong 2024 performance included the following:

• Consolidated revenue totaled $3.4 billion, growing 8% compared to 2023, with revenue growth from each of the reporting segments: U.S. Pawn, Latin America Pawn and Retail POS Payment Solutions (AFF).

• Earnings per share increased 19% compared to 2023 on a basis consistent with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Adjusted earnings per share, a non-GAAP financial measure, increased 11% compared to 2023 (1) .

• Net income for the full year was $259 million, an increase of 18% compared to last year. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, for the full year was $558 million, an increase of 9% compared to last year (1) .

• Operating cash flows totaled $540 million in 2024, up 30% over the prior year.

The 2024 results also represented continued multi-year growth in these key financial metrics. The following charts present selected long-term operating results for the years 2021 through 2024:

(1) Non-GAAP financial measure. See detailed reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures provided in Appendix A.

Additional financial and operating highlights and analysis are presented in the “2024 Financial Review” section below.

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#### Long-Term Total Stockholder Returns
The outstanding financial results are reflected in strong relative total stockholder returns versus the Company’s peer group and other relevant broad market indices over the most recent 3- and 5- year periods:

#### Key 2024 Compensation Outcomes
The key compensation outcomes for 2024 were properly aligned with the 2024 operating performance and stockholder return outcomes highlighted and also reflected the ongoing continued rigor of the Compensation Committee’s goal-setting process.

The following table details the 2024 performance-based payouts under the incentive compensation programs for the CEO, COO and CFO:

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