The Aarons Company Inc has the ticker symbol AAN and is a member of the Consumer Cyclical sector as a specialty retail company. This is my first ever report on The Aarons Company Inc for any of my dog of the week portfolios. 

The Aarons Co Inc is a specialty retailer which has developed a unique lease-to-own model. It serves the customers through the sale and leases ownership of furniture, consumer electronics, computers, home appliances, and other accessories at best deal with the highest quality products. Aaron's services are available through multiple channels to approximately 40-50 % of the U.S. population.

As of December 31, 2020, the company had 1,092 Company-operated stores and 248 independently-owned franchised stores. The company was formerly known as Aaron's SpinCo, Inc. Aarons Company Inc. was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Three key data points gauge dividend equities or funds like The Aarons Company Inc:

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Those three basic keys best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money. 

AAN Price

Aarons's price per share closed at $24.45 yesterday. In December its price was $17.72. Price per share has increased almost 38% in the past three months. 

If The Aarons Company Inc stock trades in the range of $15 to $30 this year, its recent $24.45 price might rise by $2.55 to reach $27.00 by March 12, 2022. My estimate is above the median of the ten broker analysts following AAN.

AAN Dividends

The Aarons Company Inc most recently declared quarterly dividend was $0.10 payable April 6th. Dividends are estimated to total $0.40 per share annually and yield 1.64% at yesterday's $24.45 closing price. It has paid annually increasing dividends for seventeen years.

AAN Returns

Adding the $0.40 annual AAN anticipated dividend to my $2.55 price upside shows a $2.95 potential gross gain, per share, to be reduced by any costs to trade the shares.  

Put little over $1,000.00 today in The Aarons Company Inc at $24.45 per share and we'd buy 41 shares of AAN stock.

A $10 broker fee (if charged) would be paid half at purchase and half at a sale and might cost us about $0.24 per share.

Subtract that maybe $0.24 brokerage cost from my estimated $2.95 gross gain per share results in a net gain of $2.71 X 41 shares = $111.11 for an 11.1% net gain on a $1,002.45 investment.

The Aarons Company Inc shows a possible 11.1% net gain including a 1.64% dividend yield. 

Over the next year at this time, a $1000 investment could generate $16.40 in cash dividends. And a single share bought at yesterday's closing price was nearly $25! So, if AAN is your kind of specialty retail investment, AAN price is far above dividend income from $1,000 invested. This augurs you wait and see the price at about $20 before buying.      

All of the estimates above are speculation based on the past history of The Aarons Company Inc. Only time and money invested in this stock will determine its worth.