Currently, there are 39.00M common shares owned by the public and among those 26.00M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.81% and 16.79% over the past three months. AN shares are trading 13.45% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 30.35% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $136.35 and touched a high of $198.50 over the same period. AN has an average intraday trading volume of 465.33K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 1.86%, 7.01%, and 12.37% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) shares accounts for 67.89% of the company’s 39.00M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $7.64B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.31. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 11.37, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $16.94. The company has a PEG of 1.03 and a Quick Ratio of 0.21 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.38. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.80% over the week and 2.20% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 4.79%, and 12.86% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 11.09% over the next five years, compared to 27.76% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the AN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Stephens stated their Equal-Weight rating for the stock in a research note on January 24, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $200-$192. Morgan Stanley coverage for the Autonation Inc (AN) stock in a research note released on September 25, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $200. Stephens was of a view on September 12, 2024 that the stock is Overweight, while Morgan Stanley gave the stock Equal-Weight rating on February 29, 2024, issuing a price target of $117- $140. Evercore ISI on their part issued Outperform rating on January 17, 2024.
