Sonic Automotive, Inc. (SAH): Price and Financial Metrics

SAH POWR Grades

• SAH scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 94.9% of US stocks.
• SAH's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• SAH ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 3rd percentile.

SAH Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for SAH is 12.28 -- better than 97.33% of US stocks.
• With a price/earnings ratio of 4.92, SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about just 10.7% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• SAH's price/sales ratio is 0.14; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 3.05% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SAH, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are AN, ARW, OMI, VRTV, and JELD.
• Visit SAH's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.sonicautomotive.com.

SAH Valuation Summary

• SAH's EV/EBIT ratio is 8; this is 36.51% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SAH's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SAH.

SAH Growth Metrics

The 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -204.53%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 114.9%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 5748.78%.

SAH's revenue has moved up $3,140,701,000 over the prior 33 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	13,595.04	685.316	375.748
2022-06-30	13,496.76	647.258	372.933
2022-03-31	13,196.2	468.57	391.978
2021-12-31	12,396.4	306.3	348.9
2021-09-30	12,010.41	274.467	309.891
2021-06-30	11,486.14	18.673	285.224

SAH'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.

• SAH has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 67.86% of graded US stocks.
• SAH's asset turnover comes in at 3.29 -- ranking 8th of 165 Retail stocks.
• AN, SHW, and TGT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SAH.

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