Acquisitions

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]

Consistent with the Company’s strategy to continue its expansion of pawn stores in strategic markets, during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company acquired 83 pawn stores in the U.S. in five separate transactions and acquired two pawn licenses that were used to open two new pawn stores in the state of Nevada. The aggregate purchase price for these acquisitions totaled $168.1 million, net of cash acquired and subject to future post-closing adjustments. The aggregate purchase price was composed of $167.6 million in cash paid during the nine months ended September 30, 2023, which included the repayment and extinguishment of $59.7 million of debt of the acquired businesses at closing and remaining short-term amounts payable to certain of the sellers of approximately $0.5 million.

The purchase price of each of the 2023 acquisitions was allocated to assets acquired and liabilities assumed based upon the estimated fair values at the date of acquisition. The excess purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net assets acquired has been recorded as goodwill. The goodwill arising from these acquisitions consists largely of the synergies and economies of scale expected from combining the operations of the Company and the pawn stores acquired. These acquisitions were not material individually or in the aggregate to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

The estimated fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed are preliminary, as the Company is gathering information to finalize the valuation of these assets and liabilities. The preliminary allocation of the aggregate purchase prices for these individually immaterial acquisitions during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 is as follows (in thousands):


Pawn loans	$	26,026
Accounts receivable	3,219

Inventories	15,336

Prepaid expenses and other current assets	996
Property and equipment	2,906

Goodwill (1)	119,299
Intangible assets	4,330
Other non-current assets	280
Current liabilities	(4,265)





Aggregate purchase price	$	168,127

(1)Substantially all of the goodwill is expected to be deductible for U.S. income tax purposes.

The results of operations for the acquired stores have been consolidated since the respective acquisition dates. During 2023, revenue from the acquired stores was $14.5 million and the earnings from the combined acquisitions since the acquisition dates (including $2.8 million of transaction and integration costs, net of tax) was less than $0.1 million.