On Monday, Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) opened higher 4.13% from the last session, before settling in for the closing price of $172.46. Price fluctuations for AN have ranged from $130.35 to $197.18 over the past 52 weeks.
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Consumer Cyclical Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 5.25% over the last five years. Company’s average yearly earnings per share was noted -26.92% at the time writing. With a float of $25.41 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $41.64 million.
The firm has a total of 25300 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 17.41%, operating margin of 4.46%, and the pretax margin is 3.62%.
Autonation Inc (AN) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
A key investor’s attitude towards the stock of the Auto & Truck Dealerships industry is another important factor to consider. The insider ownership of Autonation Inc is 35.90%, while institutional ownership is 63.44%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 21 ’24, was worth 76,974. In this transaction SVP & CAO of this company sold 453 shares at a rate of $169.92, taking the stock ownership to the 11 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 26 ’24, when Company’s 10% Owner sold 39,194 for $183.43, making the entire transaction worth $7,189,355. This insider now owns 3,786,144 shares in total.
Autonation Inc (AN) Recent Fiscal highlights
If we go through the results of last quarter, which was made public on 9/30/2024, the company posted 5.02 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, besting the agreed prediction (set at 4.88) by 0.14. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 4.52 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -26.92% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.79% during the next five years compared to 39.29% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) Trading Performance Indicators
Check out the current performance indicators for Autonation Inc (AN). In the past quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.20. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.27.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 17.34, a number that is poised to hit 4.24 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 18.35 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Autonation Inc (AN)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Autonation Inc, AN], we can find that recorded value of 0.66 million was better than the volume posted last year of 0.44 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 87.44%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.75.
During the past 100 days, Autonation Inc’s (AN) raw stochastic average was set at 61.74%, which indicates a significant decrease from 85.04% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 31.90% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 35.51% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $167.64, while its 200-day Moving Average is $164.39. Now, the first resistance to watch is $183.54. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $187.49. The third major resistance level sits at $192.25. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $174.83, it is likely to go to the next support level at $170.07. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $166.12.
Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) Key Stats
There are currently 39,646K shares outstanding in the company with a market cap of 7.12 billion. Presently, the company’s annual sales total 26,949 M according to its annual income of 1,021 M. Last quarter, the company’s sales amounted to 6,586 M and its income totaled 185,800 K.
