There is a time to buy and a time to sell. Rent-a-Center is being shopped. Time to sell.

The furniture and electronics rent-to-own company is being considered by buyout shop Vintage Capital Management LLC, along with other bidders that are reviewing Rent-A-Center. Such a sale could be announced in a month or two, according to sources familiar with the situation. The rent-to-own provider has received a number of bids to acquire the whole company, which is currently in active discussions with potential buyout candidates. Rent-A-Center said back in October that it had retained JPMordan Securities LLC and was rolling out a process to explore strategic alternatives.

This is the current RCII chart. If they beat today and announce a Buyer this will pop. It it trading now at 10.40/share – and could go to 12 if the news is good.

We have the data on the jump trajectory. The only 8-ball here is if there is any dissappointment over the merger news. But they need to show good numbers too. Here is what we see them doing today and how we plan to trade it.

Rent-A-Center Inc (NASDAQ:RCII) shares were soaring last week as reports suggested that the company may be preparing itself for a buyout.

Is this what is in the cards today?

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Rent-a-Center Inc. (RCII) will be posting its FQ1-18 quarterly earnings results today at close. [RCII] is expected to post earnings of $.08 per share on revenue of 700 Million. In the last quarter, the company reported $-.41 earnings per share MISSING the analysts’ consensus estimate of $-.07

Last 3 Quarters: “Jump Zone” Move: -10.41%, 13.7%, -5.32%

Consensus Estimates: ($NA whisper) ($.03 estimize) ($.08 wall street

Expectations are high and the stock popped last week on the buy out rumors. Today will be a big news day for this jumper. Get in on the move.

We had a great week… next week will be even better trading these “jumper” picks.

Our 4 main trades, TVTY, IRBT, AMD, EXPE produced “jump zone” profits of 35% net gain. The “snap trades” (trade room only) grabbed another 20%. How well did you do?

Next week we have some MAJOR jumpers on tap. I mean major like FIT and GPRO which in the past have jumped 20% or more each. We could see a 50% profit gain on the jump zone for next week.

Here is the full line up so far.

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Volatility is back. The markets will be roller-coaster ride from now on.. and we see a major correction ahead, perhaps in the next few weeks as things heat up in North Korea. At StockJumpers we love it. We are never in the market long with our jumper trades. And our “personal hedge fund” investors club – its usually 2 weeks or less and recycling our capital.

This is what a Stock Jumper is about. We are traders in the true sense of the word. Most folks are not, and its scares them… cause they want the world to be a “safe-zone”. If that’s you… you are wasting your time reading further. As for “safe” – good luck with that. The only safe is trusting yourself to make the right decisions. If you think the government will protect you in a time of crisis… I have a swamp to sell you.

See you on the next jump.

We have sooo many picks today… lets try the vacation one first and pocket a cool 20% while we sip our Mai Tai…. shall we?

But wait… how did our AMD trade turn out> we kicked ass. We went against all the analysists and followed our study data. Here is a snippet from our Jump Report.

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ANALYSIS: StockJumpers trajectory analysis reveals a positive market reaction to the news based on forward guidance and meeting or beating on the main metrics. Future growth is the big concern and how well their new chip is forecast in their release news. We think revenue will be the more important metric and how they deal with their competition.

We are overall LONG for the event.

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You can see the results. Yes, we really do have the magic sauce.

And though today we have Expedia as our main Jumper… there are soooo many others we could (and may) be trading in the Trade Room.

Like Intel, Starbucks, Western Digital, First Solar, and Amazon. (no not amazon… you have to take out a bank loan for just one share… crazy for a stock thats never made money) Anyway… drop in the trade room and see which one we trade for an extra 15% profit.

OK – on to EXPE – which we pick as our main target cause of the volatility ans they are always good for a double digit jump. It will be interesting.

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Shares of Tripadvisor Inc (NASDAQ: TRIP) were heading lower today, falling in sympathy with Trivago (NASDAQ: TRVG) after shares of the hotel-booking platform crashed 24% when the company recorded a decline in first-quarter revenue and cut its guidance for the year. Though there was no direct news out on Tripadvisor today, shares of the travel-recommendation service nonetheless finished down 8.5% today as it is subject to many of the same business trends as Trivago in the online travel industry.
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Is this what is in the cards today?

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Expedia Inc. (EXPE) will be posting its FQ1-18 quarterly earnings results today at close. [EXPE] is expected to post earnings of $-.60 per share on revenue of 2.46 Billion. In the last quarter, the company reported $.84 earnings per share MISSING the analysts’ consensus estimate of $1.16

Last 3 Quarters: “Jump Zone” Move: -19.91%, -19%, 4.37%

Consensus Estimates: ($-.40 whisper) ($-.50 estimize) ($-.61 wall street

EXPE will be a great trade, but the other 2 we will be moving on in the trade room – especially First Solar may produce more profit – because of a deeper move. Check it out and see. Don’t miss out on the green.

Once almost dead, they have made quite a revival – and now the crypto space is adding more life to the processor biz. Will it be enough

Today, when they report we will see what impact the mining for bitcoin and the blockchain is having on their core business.

It will be interesting.

The crypto business will be a chief area to watch for, as for signs of momentum in servers and with the company’s new Ryzen .

The company has tried to convince investors that mining is just a small piece of the puzzle. “As a reminder, on our Q4’17 earnings conference call we stated that the percentage of annual revenue related to Blockchain was approximately mid-single digit percentage in 2017,” the company said in a blog post in late March. The blog entry came in response to an unnamed report that, according to the company, “hypothesized very high revenue for Ethereum-related GPU sales.”

But what about earnings?

Earnings: Analysts surveyed by FactSet predict that AMD earned an adjusted 9 cents per share in the March quarter, whereas it lost 4 cents per share a year earlier. According to Estimize,, the average projection calls for 10 cents in per-share earnings.

But they are all guessing. We have this one dialed in.

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Analysts will be looking for updates on AMD’s momentum in the server business, where Nvidia has made major inroads while Intel continues to dominate. Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh, too, will be looking for “signs of life with AMD’s Epyc,” and he predicts “modest” market shares gains in notebook PCs during the first half of the year. As for GPUs, Rakesh sees near-zero inventories which he believes will benefit AMD in the immediate term.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will be posting its FQ1-18 quarterly earnings results today at close. [AMD] is expected to post earnings of $.09 per share on revenue of 1.48 Billion. In the last quarter, the company reported $.08 earnings per share BEATING the analysts’ consensus estimate of $.05

Last 3 Quarters: “Jump Zone” Move: 7.61%, -13.75%, 10.91%

Consensus Estimates: ($.11 whisper) ($.10 estimize) ($.09 wall street

The last 4 quarters of earnings releases

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Big moves today with high expectations. Let’s mine some serious profit off this chip maker on today’s jump.

PLUS – we will be doing FFIV and FB in the trade room for more sauce for the goose today. See you in the trade room. So MANY TRADING OPPORTUNITIES!