---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000933036-25-000057"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UPBD"
cik: "0000933036"
company_name: "UPBOUND GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T00:51:39.719012+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Upbound Group dismisses E&Y as auditor, appoints Deloitte for FY 2025

## Summary
- Audit committee dismissed E&Y and appointed Deloitte effective Feb 24, 2025, after a formal review.
- No disagreements or reportable events between Upbound and E&Y for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
- E&Y's audit reports for 2023 and 2024 were unqualified, with no adverse opinions or modifications.
- No prior consultations with Deloitte on accounting principles or audit opinions before appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000933036-25-000057
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UPBD
- cik: 0000933036
- company_name: UPBOUND GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000093303625000057/0000933036-25-000057-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000093303625000057/upbd-20250224.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000933036-25-000057.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  UPBOUND GROUP, INC. dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  - Successor: Deloitte & Touche LLP
  source text: On February 24, 2025, the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of Upbound Group, Inc. (the “Company”) decided to (i) dismiss Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933036/000093303625000057/0000933036-25-000057-index.htm

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