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

SAH POWR Grades

• SAH scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 87.56% of US stocks.
• SAH's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• SAH's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 43.97% of US stocks).

SAH Stock Summary

• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for SAH is 16.18 -- better than 97.92% of US stocks.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.12, SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC has a higher such ratio than merely 3.22% of stocks in our set.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC is reporting a growth rate of -67.17%; that's higher than just 20.02% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC, a group of peers worth examining would be HA, GCI, NWL, MHK, and GHC.
• 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 price/earnings ratio is -56.3; this is 475.33% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, SAH's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.1.

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.