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World Acceptance Corp. WRLD

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$585.2M
▲ 3.7% YoY
$34.6M
▼ 61.2% YoY
$255.5M
▲ 2.0% YoY
In brief

What this company does

World Acceptance Corporation offers short-term small installment loans, medium-term larger installment loans, related credit insurance and ancillary products and services to individuals. As of March 31, 2026, it operated 1,009 branches in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. It offers traditional installment loans generally between $400 and $5,300, with the average loan origination being $2,015 in fiscal 2026. It also offers income tax return preparation and electronic filing services in all but a few of its branches, and prepared approximately 91,000 returns in fiscal 2026. The Company's wholly-owned captive insurance subsidiary reinsures a portion of the credit insurance sold in connection with its loans, and in fiscal 2026 reinsured approximately 9.0% of the credit insurance sold by the Company, contributing approximately $2.0 million to its total revenue. The Company has continuously operated since July 1962.

Written from the business description in WORLD ACCEPTANCE CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 4 June 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 585.2M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 585.2 · Net income 34.6
250.0M500.0M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−1.7%
+2.1%
+0.5%
+1.2%
+17.7%
−17.1%
−8.9%
−6.3%
+24.1%
−12.3%
−3.7%
+1.3%
+111.7%
+7.5%
+7.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.1% a year over five years.

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
6 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 7.7% · Net 5.9%
10%20%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 8.8%
10%20%30%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 9 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 129.7M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 255.5
100M200M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 129.7
80M160M200920112013201520172019202120232025

USD 129.7M in buybacks — 375% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 1.1B
EquityUSD 351.0M
CashUSD 6.1M
Gross debtUSD 587.2M
Net debtUSD 581.2M

Net debt stands at 166% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.60.60.60.60.60.50.60.50.50.50.60.60.60.60.50.50.4
Operating income $B0.00.10.10.00.10.10.00.10.0········
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.00.10.10.00.10.1········
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.0
Net income $B0.00.10.10.00.10.10.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.30.30.30.30.30.20.30.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.2
EPS, diluted $6.8816.2113.143.608.4713.233.544.055.998.3810.0511.909.608.006.595.634.45
Dividend / sh $·················
Payout %·················
ROE %8.820.819.15.613.921.65.86.810.717.324.735.631.626.523.422.119.2
Shares out B0.000.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.02·

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 50 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityPersonal Credit Institutions
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inSouth Carolina
Fiscal year endsMarch 31
Data on record since2009

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