Autonation Inc (AN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $165.78, with 0.44 million shares of worth about $72.65 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -0.47% during that period and on April 17, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 2.28%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 39.03M shares, out of which, 28.74M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.31% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -0.28%. Year-to-date (YTD), AN shares are showing a performance of -2.39% which increased to 7.23% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $148.33 but also hit the highest price of $198.50 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Autonation Inc shares is 538.28K. The stock is currently trading 0.42% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -4.19% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.81% lower than SMA200.
Autonation Inc (NYSE: AN) currently have 39.03M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 67.97% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $6.51B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.99. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 9.78, while it has posted earnings per share of $16.94 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.87 and has Quick Ratio of 0.21 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.54. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AN, volatility over the week remained 3.58% while standing at 5.09% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.61% while it is estimated to increase by 11.01% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 11.20% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 27.76% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Stephens on January 24, 2025 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $200 and $192 to it. Coverage by Morgan Stanley stated Autonation Inc (AN) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on September 25, 2024, suggesting a price target of $200 for the stock. On September 12, 2024, Stephens Initiated their recommendations, while on February 29, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $140. Stock get an Outperform rating from Evercore ISI on January 17, 2024.
