Autonation Inc
Autonation Inc (AN) is listed on NYSE and classified in Auto & Truck Dealerships, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, United States and has 24,800 employees. The company is worth $5.35B and trades at 7.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $27.63B in fiscal 2025, up 3.2% from the year before. Net income was $649.1M. The share price is 31.4% below its 52-week high of $235.81. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $215.88M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +30.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,335.29▲ +33.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $206.48 | $169.84 | $150.18 | $107.30 | $116.85 | $69.79 | $48.63 | $35.70 | $51.33 | $48.65 | $59.66 | $60.41 | $49.69 | $39.70 | $36.87 | $28.20 | $19.15 | $9.88 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 25.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 12.1 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| MTNVail Resorts Inc | $148.23 | 36.2x | 22.0x | 5.99% | 26.04% | $5.28B |
| IBPInstalled Building Products, Inc. | $198.13 | 20.3x | 8.2x | 1.69% | 38.45% | $5.27B |
| BYDBoyd Gaming Corp |
| P/E | 12.1x | 12.1x | 10.0x | 6.6x | 4.4x | 6.4x | 16.2x | 9.8x | 8.2x | 11.6x | 11.7x | 15.3x | 17.2x | 16.3x | 15.8x | 19.3x | 19.7x | 17.1x | — |
| P/S | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.1x |
| P/B | 2.6x | 3.1x | 2.7x | 2.8x | 2.5x | 3.0x | 1.8x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 2.0x | 2.1x | 2.7x | 3.3x | 2.9x | 2.8x | 2.6x | 2.0x | 1.4x | — |
| EPS | $17.04 | $16.92 | $22.74 | $24.29 | $18.31 | $4.30 | $4.97 | $4.34 | $4.43 | $4.15 | $3.89 | $3.52 | $3.04 | $2.52 | $1.91 | $1.43 | $1.12 | -$6.99 |
| Profit margin | 2.07% | 2.35% | 2.59% | 3.79% | 5.10% | 5.31% | 1.87% | 2.11% | 1.85% | 2.02% | 1.99% | 2.12% | 2.19% | 2.14% | 2.02% | 2.03% | 1.82% | 1.86% | -9.39% |
| ROE | 18.63% | 27.73% | 28.17% | 46.17% | 67.26% | 57.76% | 11.79% | 14.23% | 14.58% | 18.34% | 18.63% | 18.84% | 20.21% | 18.18% | 18.74% | 14.85% | 10.90% | 8.60% | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
4 methods answered, across 1 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+122.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $72.27 |
| 3.2x |
| 2.1x |
| 1.11% |
| 93.08% |
| $5.25B |
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