 FCFS ticker: FCFS, the industrys global leader with 2,7000 pawnshops in the U.S. and Latin America, is hardly thriving. Barrons was bullish on FirstCash in February, calling it a good hedge against a recession. When the economy is really shut down...nobody does anything and thats not good pawnshops business, says Wedbush analyst Henry Coffey Jr. 