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Ken GriffinAdded
Citadel Advisors · Q2 2026
$1.84M
21.66K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Sonic Automotive Inc
Sonic Automotive Inc (SAH) is listed on NYSE and classified in Auto & Truck Dealerships, part of the Consumer Cyclical sector. It is headquartered in Charlotte, United States and has 11,000 employees. The company is worth $2B and trades at 9.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 17.7x. Revenue was $15.15B in fiscal 2025, up 6.5% from the year before. Net income was $118.7M. The share price is 44.5% below its 52-week high of $113.67. It pays a dividend yielding 2.60%, and has raised its annual dividend for 5 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $16.65M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders bought $4.58M of its stock on the open market and sold none.
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.
▲ +41.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,432.81▲ +43.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $61.86 | $63.35 | $56.21 | $49.27 | $49.45 | $38.57 | $31.00 | $13.76 | $18.45 | $22.90 | $22.76 | $27.04 | $24.48 | $20.89 | $14.81 | $13.24 | $10.39 | |
| P/E |
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 0.0% a year plus a 2.6% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 17.7 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 11.5 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 10.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 5.9% a year against a 8.7% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Cyclical, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLBLPolibeli Group Ltd | $5.52 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $2.02B |
| UAUnder Armour, Inc. | $4.73 | — | 1.4x | 0.00% | -29.82% | $2.03B |
| MCRIMonarch Casino & Resort Inc | $113.50 | 18.2x | 3.5x | 1.06% | 20.54% | $2.03B |
| DRVNDriven Brands Holdings Inc. | $11.82 |
| 11.5x |
| 18.1x |
| 10.3x |
| 11.3x |
| 22.1x |
| 6.1x |
| — |
| 9.4x |
| 11.5x |
| 8.8x |
| 11.3x |
| 13.4x |
| 14.7x |
| 16.0x |
| 13.7x |
| 11.5x |
| 8.9x |
| 16.8x |
| P/S | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.1x | 0.1x |
| P/B | 2.0x | 2.0x | 2.1x | 2.3x | 2.2x | 2.0x | 2.0x | 1.4x | 0.7x | 1.0x | 1.5x | 1.6x | 2.1x | 2.1x | 2.4x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.6x |
| EPS | $3.42 | $6.18 | $4.97 | $2.23 | $8.06 | -$1.21 | $3.30 | $1.20 | $2.09 | $2.03 | $1.70 | $1.84 | $1.53 | $1.53 | $1.29 | $1.49 | $0.62 |
| Dividend yield | 0.98% | 2.36% | 1.97% | 2.06% | 2.09% | 0.93% | 1.04% | 1.29% | 1.74% | 1.08% | 0.87% | 0.50% | 0.37% | 0.41% | 0.48% | 0.68% | 0.19% | — |
| Payout | 9.57% | 42.69% | 20.23% | 23.34% | 46.19% | 5.71% | — | 12.12% | 20.00% | 9.57% | 9.85% | 6.65% | 5.43% | 6.54% | 6.54% | 7.75% | 1.68% | — |
| Profit margin | 0.96% | 0.78% | 1.52% | 1.24% | 0.63% | 2.81% | -0.53% | 1.38% | 0.52% | 0.94% | 0.96% | 0.90% | 1.06% | 0.92% | 1.07% | 1.01% | 1.37% | 0.52% |
| ROE | 13.30% | 11.11% | 20.33% | 19.98% | 9.89% | 32.41% | -6.31% | 15.25% | 6.28% | 11.82% | 12.85% | 11.84% | 14.58% | 13.30% | 16.92% | 14.59% | 19.35% | 8.56% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+109.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 11.6x |
| 2.3x |
| 0.00% |
| 20.71% |
| $1.95B |
| BOBSBob's Discount Furniture, Inc. | $14.87 | 14.7x | 3.7x | 0.00% | — | $1.94B |
| PENNPENN Entertainment, Inc. | $15.46 | — | 1.1x | 0.00% | -37.58% | $2.07B |