How World Acceptance Corporation stacks up

WRLD · against 153 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed

Growth

18/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #132 of 154 · scores higher than 13% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score

14 peers with a growth score of 10–19, including WRLD · Click a bar to see the companies

Why growth scores 18?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Mainly because of its earnings per share growth and 3-year revenue growth, which are weaker than most Financial Services peers.

slower growth in earnings per share: weaker than 86% of peers. Earnings per share growth: -43.4% vs peer median 10.0%
slower revenue growth over three years: weaker than 80% of peers. 3-year revenue growth: -0.4% vs peer median 10.0%
Revenue growth is close to the peer norm. Revenue growth: 4.3% vs peer median 7.4%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = WRLD, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	WRLD	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Revenue growthHigher is better · 179 reported	4.3%	10.5%	36%	33%
Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 131 reported	-43.4%	11.4%	17%	33%
3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 138 reported	-0.4%	11.5%	15%	33%

Ranking by growth score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around WRLD

Rank	Company	Market cap	Growth	Overall
1	ASA Gold and Precious Metals LimitedASA · US-listed	883M USD	99	51
1	BlackRock Income Trust, Inc.BKT · US-listed	322M USD	99	58
3	Gladstone Investment CorporatioGAIN · US-listed	601M USD	98	72
3	Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income PortfolioNXP · US-listed	843M USD	98
5	Franklin Municipal Opportunities TrustPMO · US-listed	282M USD	97
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129	Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.TSLX · US-listed	1.7B USD	19	49
129	Value Line, Inc.VALU · US-listed	434M USD	19	43
132	AllianceBernstein Holding L.P.AB · US-listed	3.2B USD	18	66
132	Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.VRTS · US-listed	798M USD	18	47
132	World Acceptance CorporationWRLD · US-listed	772M USD	18	51
135	Crescent Capital BDC, Inc.CCAP · US-listed	345M USD	17	21
136	Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities TrustTBLD · US-listed	657M USD	15
137	The Western Union CompanyWU · US-listed	1.9B USD	14	47
138	Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc.BCSF · US-listed	706M USD	13	52

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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