Other Gains and Charges

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Unusual or Infrequent Items, or Both [Abstract]

Acima Holdings Acquisition. On February 17, 2021, we completed the acquisition of Acima Holdings, a leading provider of virtual lease-to-own solutions. Included in the aggregate consideration issued to the former owners of Acima Holdings were 8,096,595 common shares, valued at $414.1 million, subject to 36-month vesting conditions under restricted stock agreements, which were recognized over the vesting term as stock compensation expense, in accordance with ASC Topic 718, “Stock-based Compensation”. During the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, we recognized approximately $4.9 million and $109.5 million in stock compensation expense, respectively, related to these restricted stock agreements. See Note 10 for additional information.

The fair value of assets acquired as part of the transaction included $520 million in intangible assets and $170 million in developed technology. During the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, we recognized approximately $12.7 million and $14.2 million in amortization expense, respectively, related to acquired intangible assets. We also recognized approximately $3.9 million and $4.0 million in incremental depreciation expense related to acquired technology assets in during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Internally Developed Software Depreciation. During the third quarter of 2023, we completed initial development and began pilot testing a new internally developed point-of-sale system for our Rent-A-Center lease-to-own stores. We expect to fully deploy the new system across our lease-to-own store network during 2024, at which time our existing point-of-sale software will be retired. Therefore, in the third quarter of 2023, we accelerated the remaining useful lives of our existing point-of-sale software assets to align with the current deployment timeline of our new point-of-sale system, which resulted in the recognition of additional depreciation expense of $4.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. Subsequent to March 31, 2024 we expect to recognize additional depreciation expense of $1.5 million over the remaining life of these assets.

Activity with respect to Other gains and charges is summarized in the below table:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(in thousands)	2024		2023










Acima acquired assets depreciation and amortization(1)	$	16,646	$	18,234
Acima equity consideration vesting(2)	4,893		109,473


Accelerated software depreciation	4,611		—
Asset impairments	646		—
Other	—		(137)
Total other gains and charges	$	26,796	$	127,570

(1) Represents amortization of the total fair value of acquired intangible assets and incremental depreciation related to the fair value increase over net book value of acquired software assets in connection with the acquisition of Acima Holdings in 2021.

(2) Represents stock compensation expense related to common stock issued to Acima Holdings employees under restricted stock agreements as part of the acquisition proceeds subject to vesting restrictions, as described in Note 10.