AutoNation, Inc. (AN): Price and Financial Metrics

AN POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where AN ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.22% of US stocks.
• AN's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 163 days.
• AN's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 32.03% of US stocks).

AN Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for AN is 10.63 -- better than 97.3% of US stocks.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.27, Autonation Inc has a higher such ratio than only 4.88% of stocks in our set.
• Autonation Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 24.91%, greater than the shareholder yield of 91.84% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Autonation Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be MAN, SGRP, ABG, CTRN, and IDT.
• Visit AN's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.autonation.com.

AN Valuation Summary

• AN's price/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 90.32% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, AN's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.1.
• AN's price/earnings ratio has moved down 3.4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AN.

AN Growth Metrics

Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 0.46%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 13.09%.
• Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -70.56%.

Over the past 67 months, AN's revenue has gone up $4,009,400,000.

The table below shows AN's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	25,046.8	1,602.5	1,137.4
2021-06-30	24,072.2	1,243.6	958.3
2021-03-31	21,626.8	1,620.2	853.3
2020-12-31	20,390	1,207.6	381.6
2020-09-30	20,153.8	1,268	387.8
2020-06-30	20,210.1	1,238	304.7

AN's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AN has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 91.24% of graded US stocks.
• AN's asset turnover comes in at 2.808 -- ranking 14th of 165 Retail stocks.
• SAH, TGT, and SHW are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AN.

The table below shows AN's key quality metrics over time.