Upbound Group, Inc.

UPBD Technology Software Application

Upbound Group, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $4.7 billion, up 8.67% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue was flat, EPS grew 37.0%, free cash flow grew 1,271.6% and total debt fell 9.12%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

16.37 0.08 −0.49%
Market cap
$959.0M
P/E
10.4×
Fwd P/E
5.2×
Dividend yield
9.53%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
2.76
Beneish M
−2.52
Dividend safety
53/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total buys 0.14
Total sells 0.19
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — 1 — — 1 — — 1 — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — 1 — —
Insider Ownership 4.21%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 959.02
Revenue 4,744.32
Net Income 90.34
Free Cash Flow 356.66
Net Debt 1,318.27
Current Ratio 3.22 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 1.94
P/E ratio 10.43
Fwd P/E 5.18
P/S ratio 0.20
P/B ratio 1.30
Past 5Y EPS Growth (19.64%) (below 0%: weak)
This Y EPS Growth 0.73%
Next Y EPS Growth 11.07%
Next Y revenue growth 0.81%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 8.74%

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 14.71%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 8.88%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 3.69%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 28.20%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 24.55%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 1.01
Annual Dividend Rate 1.56
Annual Dividend Yield 9.53%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 1.57
0.39
0.39
0.39
2025 1.56
0.39
0.39
0.39
0.39
2024 1.50
0.37
0.37
0.37
0.39
2023 1.39
0.34
0.34
0.34
0.37
2022 1.36
0.34
0.34
0.34
0.34
2021 1.27
0.31
0.31
0.31
0.34
2020 1.47
0.29
0.29
0.29
0.29
0.31
2019 0.25
0.25
2017 0.24
0.08
0.08
0.08
2016 0.24
0.08
0.08
0.08
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 94 61 121 105
Receivables 111 156 203 205
Inventory 1,234 1,249 1,317 1,203
Other — — — —
1,489 1,520 1,794 1,722
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 177 115 154 118
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
500 420 615 534

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 3.66% 10.78% 3.41%
Cash Flow 2.84% 5.26% (13.27%)
Earnings 0.00% (18.85%) 80.97%
Book Value 6.13% 3.28% 9.83%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1,220 1,163 — — —
’25 1,176 1,158 1,165 1,196 4,695
’24 1,096 1,077 1,069 1,079 4,321
’23 1,016 979 979 1,018 3,992
’22 1,160 1,071 1,024 990 4,245
’21 1,037 1,194 1,181 1,171 4,583
’20 702 684 712 716 2,814
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 171 123 — — —
’25 148 26 90 42 306
’24 45 15 106 (62) 105
’23 105 37 78 (20) 200
’22 205 82 125 56 468
’21 136 115 76 66 392
’20 47 207 42 (60) 237
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 155 108 — — —
’25 137 8 69 24 239
’24 34 1 106 (74) 67
’23 96 25 63 (34) 149
’22 189 67 106 44 407
’21 124 101 55 50 330
’20 38 202 34 (57) 216
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.61 0.37 — — —
’25 0.42 0.26 0.22 0.34 1.25
’24 0.50 0.61 0.55 0.55 2.21
’23 0.84 (0.83) 0.08 (0.21) (0.09)
’22 (0.08) 0.33 (0.10) 0.05 0.21
’21 0.64 0.90 0.31 0.15 2.02
’20 0.88 0.70 1.15 1.00 3.73
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.5
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 8.00 7.76 7.22 15.88 11.69 36.99 16.82 22.08 26.50 15.82

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 16.37 13.89 16.68 28.96 41.42 67.76 50.16 36.17 38.72 30.62
People
People Employees 21,600 18,300 14,000 14,500 14,320 14,290 12,690 12,970 11,970 12,050
Revenue/emp, $m 0.14 0.15 0.19 0.18 0.20 0.32 0.33 0.31 0.36 0.39
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 2,963 2,703 2,660 2,670 2,814 4,583 4,245 3,992 4,321 4,695
Gross margin, % 65.30 63.59 63.45 61.58 59.42 48.76 48.98 50.65 48.15 48.39
EBT (113) (110) 14 224 223 194 61 53 178 108
EBT margin, % (3.82) (4.08) 0.52 8.38 7.92 4.24 1.45 1.32 4.11 2.30
Net income (105) 7 8 174 208 135 12 (5) 123 73
Depreciation 890 702 691 684 692 1,393 1,369 1,300 1,426 1,519
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 55.78 50.72 49.76 49.15 51.93 80.34 78.84 72.62 79.05 83.13
Earnings (1.98) 0.12 0.16 3.19 3.84 2.37 0.23 (0.09) 2.26 1.30
Cash flow 6.67 2.07 4.25 3.97 4.36 6.88 8.70 3.64 1.92 5.41
Capex (1.05) (1.14) (0.05) 0.89 (0.37) (1.09) (1.14) (0.93) (0.69) (1.18)
Free cash flow 5.61 0.93 4.21 4.86 3.99 5.78 7.56 2.72 1.23 4.23
Book value 4.99 5.11 5.36 8.45 10.93 9.00 9.75 10.19 11.51 12.32
Shares, m 53 53 53 54 54 57 54 55 55 56
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 95.27 101.19 9.04 9.95 20.44 92.63 0.00 12.91 13.61
P/S 0.21 0.21 0.33 0.59 0.74 0.60 0.28 0.47 0.37 0.21
P/B 2.33 2.05 3.02 3.41 3.50 5.34 2.28 3.33 2.53 1.43
EV/Sales 0.42 0.43 0.47 0.65 0.75 0.92 0.57 0.77 0.66 0.52
EV/FCF 4.18 23.30 5.56 6.54 9.73 12.74 5.95 20.62 42.35 10.22
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 354 111 228 215 237 392 468 200 105 306
Capex (56) (61) (3) 49 (20) (62) (61) (51) (38) (67)
Free cash flow 298 50 225 264 216 330 407 149 67 239
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 782 688 658 607 736 1,174 1,034 989 1,101 1,178
Total debt 724 673 540 231 190 1,571 1,369 1,307 1,310 1,570
Net debt 629 600 385 160 31 1,463 1,225 1,213 1,249 1,449
Shareholders’ equity 265 272 287 459 592 513 525 560 629 696
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (5.88) 0.44 0.60 11.65 12.49 5.69 0.43 (0.19) 4.60 2.47
ROIC (4.66) (4.52) 5.23 25.62 23.81 8.87 5.31 5.74 9.71 6.51
ROE (32.44) 2.48 3.04 46.56 39.60 24.42 2.38 (0.95) 20.76 11.06
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

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Upbound Group, Inc. vs peers in Software Application (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
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RSKD Riskified Ltd. $1.1B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +21.75% (above 0%: growing) n/m +141.82% (above 0%: growing) 45.56% (7.51%) Compare
IBTA Ibotta, Inc. $1.1B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +3.34% (above 0%: growing) n/m −57.28% (below 0%: shrinking) 78.42% (2.11%) Compare
UPBD Upbound Group, Inc. $959.0M 10.4× 5.2× +0.51% (above 0%: growing) +37.04% (above 0%: growing) +1,271.63% (above 0%: growing) 51.13% 4.66%
DJCO Daily Journal Corp. (S.C.) $880.0M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +15.25% (above 0%: growing) n/m +48.22% (above 0%: growing) 99.41% 19.52% Compare
DSP Viant Technology Inc. $854.5M 24.8× 29.5× +33.91% (above 0%: growing) n/m +38.79% (above 0%: growing) 100.00% (3.69%) Compare
PUBM PubMatic, Inc. $812.2M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +10.55% (above 0%: growing) n/m +47.47% (above 0%: growing) 67.07% 0.74% Compare
MNTN MNTN Inc. $784.7M 13.2× 10.3× +20.56% (above 0%: growing) n/m +87.71% (above 0%: growing) 80.32% 8.62% Compare
SMWB Similarweb Ltd. $770.0M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +8.76% (above 0%: growing) n/m +217.42% (above 0%: growing) 80.73% 0.96% Compare
Median of peers $867.2M — 10.3× +12.90% — +47.85% 80.53% (0.68%)

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Upbound Group, Inc. (UPBD) key facts

  • Concern: Net income was $73.2 million, or $1.30 per share (basic), a net margin of 1.56%.
  • Strength: Upbound Group, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $4.7 billion, up 8.67% from fiscal 2024.
  • Upbound Group, Inc. (UPBD) is a Software Application company in the Technology sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, UPBD traded at $16.37, a market capitalization of $959.0 million.
  • At that price the stock trades at 10.4× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 0.2× sales; its P/E is higher than 15% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Upbound Group, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share, a yield of 9.53%, with a payout ratio of 101.3%.
  • Return on equity was 11.1% and debt-to-equity 1.94.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 4 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 2.76 (grey zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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