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Atlanticus Holdings Corp. ATLC

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$309.6M
▲ 51.2% YoY
$122.2M
▲ 9.8% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Atlanticus provides technology and other support services to lenders that offer an array of financial products and services to consumers. As of December 31, 2025, it had 576 employees, all employed within the U.S. It reports these products and services through two reportable segments, Credit as a Service and Auto Finance. Within its CaaS segment, it applies technology solutions built from experience and infrastructure gained servicing $50 billion in consumer loans over more than 30 years of operating history. Within CaaS, it offers private label credit cards under the Fortiva and Curae brand names, along with merchant-associated brands, and general purpose credit cards under the Aspire, Imagine, Mercury and Fortiva brand names. Within its Auto Finance segment, its CAR subsidiary purchases and services loans secured by automobiles, and provides floor-plan financing, for a pre-qualified network of independent automotive dealers and automotive finance companies in the buy-here, pay-here used car business, serving over 700 dealers in 33 states and two U.S. territories as of December 31, 2025. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with its principal executive offices located at Five Concourse Parkway, Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30328. It is a Georgia corporation formed in 2009, as successor to an entity that commenced operations in 1996.

Written from the business description in Atlanticus Holdings Corp's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 309.6M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 309.6 · Net income 122.2
200M-20M-40M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
+93.4%
+82.2%
−3.4%
+5.4%
+53.2%
+0.7%
+8.6%
+47.8%
−12.1%
+95.6%
+72.3%
+34.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +82.2% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +5.4%, earnings per share at +8.6%.

The share count fell from 0.02B to 0.01B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
39 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 51.6% · Net 39.0%
200%400%600%-200%-400%-600%201020122014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 22.2%
100%200%-100%-200%201020122014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity produced 22 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 58.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2020 · FCF 212.0
200M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 58.0
40M80M201020122014201620182020202220242025

USD 58.0M in buybacks — 47% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 7.6B
EquityUSD 608.7M
CashUSD 621.1M
Gross debtUSD 5.8B
Net debtUSD 5.2B

Net debt stands at 854% of equity.

The 16-year record
16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.30.20.20.00.00.00.00.00.0·······
Operating income $B0.20.10.10.10.20.10.00.0········
EBITDA $B0.20.10.10.20.20.10.00.0········
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0
Net income $B0.10.10.10.10.20.10.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.1−0.1
Free cash flow $B·····0.20.10.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.10.3
EPS, diluted $5.964.774.245.837.563.951.660.56−2.93−0.460.120.51−1.291.265.19−2.45
Dividend / sh $················
Payout %················
ROE %22.225.128.544.197.4240.7···−75.718.6166.8−173.451.3225.3−227.6
Shares out B0.010.010.010.010.010.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.04

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 47 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 20 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityPersonal Credit Institutions
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inGeorgia
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2010

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