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The Motley Fool December 28, 2006 Rich Duprey	Previewing 2007: Cash America Payday loans happen to be more profitable than pawn brokering these days. However, Cash America is richly valued with a ratio in excess of 2, based on trailing revenues.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: EZCORP's Expansion Plans The pawnshop operator and payday lender will report first-quarter 2007 financial results shortly. Investors, here's what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2006 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: EZCORP No Longer Easy Money The pawnshop operator and payday lender will be reporting fourth-quarter 2006 earnings. A month ago, it gave investors updated guidance, boosting its outlook and making it look easy peasy. Can its fulfill that promise?
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Rich Duprey	Cash America's Taxing Guidance An easing up on the payday lender's stock price may provide a chance for investors to get in at a reasonable price.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Cash America's Online Cash Payday The pawnshop operator and payday lender will be reporting its first-quarter 2007 financial results shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2006 Rich Duprey	Cash America Clicks With Payday Loans The pawnshop operator completes its acquisition of an online payday lender. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Cash Flowing Through First Cash The pawn shop operator and payday lender will report first-quarter 2007 financial results shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: EZCORP on Hold The pawn shop operator and payday lender is set to report second-quarter 2007 financial results. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2007 Rich Duprey	Cash America: Cash Everywhere The payday lender and pawnshop operator reports strong gains company-wide. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2006 Rich Duprey	Previewing 2007: EZCORP Will earnings still come easy for the pawnshop operator in the coming year? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Rich Duprey	Cash America Still Cashing In Pawn loans and sales remain the core driver of earnings for the sub-prime lending sector. Investors, Cash America is not the priciest of the bunch, but it's not cheap, either.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Rich Duprey	QC Holdings' Higher Value Investors, as the payday lender seeks reasonable growth with a more profitable line of branches, focusing on doing one thing especially well, expect QC Holdings to continue improving its performance.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2007 Rich Duprey	Legislative Foes Shackle Payday Loans The payday loan industry remains under assault at both the federal and state level.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2006 Robert Walberg	EZCORP: All That Glitters ... With macroeconomic conditions expected to remain bullish for the foreseeable future, EZCORP has unsurprisingly upped its guidance for fiscal 2006. Trading near its all-time high, and at less than 50% of its projected growth rate, is this stock a good deal?
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Sean Ryan	Pawn Lenders Looking More Like Kings A confluence of trends looks ready to push pawn lenders higher. The declining availability of credit should spur more demand for pawn loans, and rising gold prices should make those loans more profitable.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Rich Duprey	EZCORP Profits Easily The pawnshop and payday lender ties its future profits to expansion. It turned in a first-quarter performance that far exceeded analyst expectations, even though it was not able to open as many stores as it had intended.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Rich Duprey	Cash America Rings Up the Cash: Fool by Numbers The payday lender released fourth-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 Bill Mann	Spitzer Helps Loan Sharks When the state doesn't allow companies to charge sufficient interest on high-risk payday loans legally, the black market fills the void.
The Motley Fool December 27, 2006 Rich Duprey	Previewing 2007: Advance America Without question, the leading payday lender has a few mine fields to navigate through. It's what has kept the company's share price from rising like the competition has.
The Motley Fool February 7, 2007 Rich Duprey	Will Bubba Bring Back Payday Loans? Georgia's legislature debates permitting cash advances three years after banning them. It would be a product unique to the state, but would undoubtedly still draw the industry players, like Advance America.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2009 Rich Duprey	Don't Pawn Off the Pawnbrokers Two of the leading pawn shop operators reported earnings recently, and their results indicate that when the chips are down, their stocks will be up.
The Motley Fool April 10, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Cost Plus, Profits Minus? The retailer is set to close out another miserable year shortly when the World Market operator reports fourth-quarter and full-year numbers. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2007 Rich Duprey	Battling for Payday Loans A ban on military payday loans keeps underpaid soldiers even more short of cash.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2008 Rich Duprey	EZCORP Still Making It Look Easy A sour economy drives the pawnshop operator's results.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Rich Duprey	Cash America Rings Up Sales: Fool by Numbers The pawnshop and payday lender released third-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Rich Duprey	I Love Payday Lenders Payday lenders are good investments. They're disliked by large swaths of people, and they have a high ick factor, but they provide a necessary and highly profitable service.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Rich Duprey	Cashing In on First Cash: Fool by Numbers The payday lender released fourth-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool November 10, 2008 Rich Duprey	Payday Industry in Danger of Default Restrictions continue to mount on specialty financial services firms such as Cash America.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Rich Duprey	First Cash's Car Crash Expanding into the used-car business was supposed to provide an avenue of growth for payday lender First Cash Financial, but it didn't happen.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Cash In on ACE Cash? The payday lender needs to diversify and put the brakes on dilution.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Rich Duprey	Easy-Peasy EZCORP The pawnshop operator boosts guidance as it makes profits and opens more stores. Yet there are some concerns for investors.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2010 Rick Steier	Storm Clouds Brewing for Payday Lenders No hyperbole. Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill threatens entire short-term lending industry.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2004 Lawrence Meyers	The Vig Is Up for First Cash The pawn shop/payday advance outfit may not have a sustainable competitive advantage, since its competitors are equally or better capitalized and have similar strategies. But the company looks very attractive.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2006 Rich Duprey	First Cash Flush With Cash The pawnshop operator reports booming business, particularly south of the border. First Cash Financial may just end up having investors flush with cash.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Rich Duprey	Previewing 2007: Dollar Financial The check casher and payday lender is focusing more on operations abroad where its services aren't so controversial. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Avoid the Loan Sharks For those with less-than-perfect credit histories, there's a scary trend in personal finance these days. In the name of convenience, some borrowers are digging themselves into a hole from which they may never emerge.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Matthew Brown	Dollar Financial Makes a Buck Diversified products and global presence protect company revenues.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2011 Selena Maranjian	Payday Lending's Not Dead Yet Plenty of companies still profit from charging 400% interest.
U.S. Banker November 2001 John Hackett	Ethically Tainted A number of banks are moving into variations of payday lending, the high-yielding business that some observers would describe as predatory. But those who participate in such lending say they're no different than banks that charge high fees for bounced checks...
The Motley Fool January 8, 2009 Rich Duprey	Payday Lenders Struck by Virtual Reality An analyst's note on year-old news sends shares spiraling downward at payday lending companies.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 Rich Duprey	Easy Payday for First Cash The pawnshop broker and payday lender continues to cash in on diversified business. But next year may prove troublesome to investors.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Dueling Fools: Payday Loans Bull Don't be swayed by the negative press put out by anti-PDLers about people who get "sucked into the payday-lending treadmill." For every one of those, you'll find 10 who are thankful the industry exists.
U.S. Banker July 2011 Glen Fest	A Case for Payday Loans Payday lenders seemingly have few friends in high places, but they recently found sympathy from a surprising source: an economist at the Kansas City Fed.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Get a Cheap Loan Fast ... From Yourself If you're facing a temporary setback and need a short-term solution, a 401(k) loan may not be as bad as some experts think, and a lot better than other alternatives.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Dueling Fools: Payday Loans Bear Rebuttal For advantageous check-cashing stores, money might as well grow on trees. Payday institutions may be necessary -- but not in their present form. They need to be cleaned up.
Reason April 2002 Mike Lynch	Legal Loan Sharking or Essential Service? The great "payday loan" controversy...
The Motley Fool November 8, 2007 Selena Maranjian	When It's Good to Be in Uniform A new federal law is designed to protect service members from being taken advantage of by so-called payday lenders, capping annual interest rates at 36%; civilians can pay as much as 500% for the same loans.
FDIC FYI January 29, 2003	Payday Lending Some insured depository institutions have failed to properly assess and control the risks associated with their payday lending programs. The consequences of deficiencies in risk management practices for payday lending programs can be severe.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Pay Cut for Payday Lenders? New FDIC guidelines for payday lenders are no reason to panic. There's magic in doing your own research. And when bad news hits your stock, don't panic! At least not until you're sure there's reason to.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2006 Rich Duprey	First Cash Drives Ahead Pawnshop operators are profitable investments that remain hidden because of their unsavory reputation. But First Cash jumped more than 8% on the news that it had bought a car dealership.