Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) kicked off on Tuesday, up 1.30% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $192.64. Over the past 52 weeks, AN has traded in a range of $136.35-$197.18.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 6.65% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 4.70%. With a float of $25.95 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $39.65 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 25300 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 17.41%, operating margin of 4.46%, and the pretax margin is 3.62%.
Autonation Inc (AN) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Auto & Truck Dealerships Industry. The insider ownership of Autonation Inc is 34.55%, while institutional ownership is 63.34%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 05 ’24, was worth 179,789. In this transaction Director of this company sold 1,000 shares at a rate of $179.79, taking the stock ownership to the 44,595 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 05 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 1,000 for $179.79, making the entire transaction worth $179,789.
Autonation Inc (AN) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 4.70% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.34% during the next five years compared to 39.29% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Autonation Inc’s (AN) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.20. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.29.
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 20.91 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Autonation Inc (AN)
Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) saw its 5-day average volume 0.72 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.46 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 72.22%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 4.80.
During the past 100 days, Autonation Inc’s (AN) raw stochastic average was set at 92.90%, which indicates a significant increase from 80.71% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 22.11% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 26.34% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $179.29, while its 200-day Moving Average is $171.06. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $200.65 in the near term. At $206.14, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $213.79. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $187.51, it is likely to go to the next support level at $179.86. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $174.37.
Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 7.74 billion has total of 39,646K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 26,949 M in contrast with the sum of 1,021 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 6,586 M and last quarter income was 185,800 K.
