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

SAH POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where SAH ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.32% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SAH is in Stability, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• SAH's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 5.18% of US stocks).

SAH Stock Summary

• SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 98.05% of US listed stocks.
• With a price/earnings ratio of 38.01, SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about 82.73% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• SAH's price/sales ratio is 0.11; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 2.53% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to SAH, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are DSKE, ANDE, GCI, WWW, and ARKR.
• SAH's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC's official web site, go to www.sonicautomotive.com.

SAH Valuation Summary

• SAH's price/earnings ratio is 36.9; this is 175.37% higher than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• SAH's price/sales ratio has moved down 0 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SAH.

SAH Growth Metrics

The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 11.96%.
• The 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 13.45%.
• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 6.01%.

SAH's revenue has moved up $3,627,839,000 over the prior 34 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
2022-12-31	14,001.1	406.1	88.5
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

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.