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AUTONATION, INC. AN

Retail-Auto Dealers & Gasoline Stations · CIK 0000350698 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$27.63B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$1.24B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
-$197.50M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$5.60BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$161.33Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income8.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.2×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity2.4×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

8.6× earnings today, against a median of 5.7× across 10 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$5.60B8.6×
2024-06-28$4.10B5.9×
2023-06-30$4.70B4.6×
2022-06-30$4.30B3.1×
2021-06-30$4.50B3.3×
2020-06-30$2.10B5.5×
2019-12-31$2.30B5.1×
2018-06-29$2.60B6.6×
2017-06-30$2.70B6.2×
2016-06-30$3.00B7.0×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Retail-Auto Dealers & Gasoline Stations filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
FCF margin-0.7%0th
Current ratio0.84x12th
Effective tax rate26.6%73th
Revenue YoY growth3.2%35th
Gross margin17.9%62th
Operating margin4.5%58th
SBC / revenue0.2%43th
CapEx / revenue1.1%44th
Net margin2.3%47th

AUTONATION, INC. (AN) reported revenue of $27.63B and net income of $649.10M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from AUTONATION, INC.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Retail-Auto Dealers & Gasoline Stations.

Income

AUTONATION, INC. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$27.63B$26.77B$26.95B$26.98B$25.84B$20.39B$21.34B$21.41B$21.53B$21.61B
Cost of revenue$22.68B$21.98B$21.82B$21.72B$20.89B$16.82B$17.81B$18.02B$18.18B$18.30B
Gross profit$4.95B$4.79B$5.13B$5.27B$4.95B$3.57B$3.52B$3.40B$3.36B$3.31B
Operating income$1.24B$1.31B$1.65B$2.02B$1.90B$563.20M$823.60M$777.90M$843.40M$889.50M
Net income$649.10M$692.20M$1.02B$1.38B$1.37B$381.60M$450.00M$396.00M$434.60M$430.50M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 38.10Mshares 40.90Mshares 44.90Mshares 56.70Mshares 75.00Mshares 88.70Mshares 90.50Mshares 91.30Mshares 98.20Mshares 103.80M
Pretax income$884.50M$916.70M$1.35B$1.83B$1.81B$550.10M$612.60M$529.40M$636.50M$702.30M
Income tax expense$235.40M$224.50M$330.00M$455.80M$435.10M$168.30M$161.80M$133.50M$201.50M$270.60M
Diluted EPS$17.04$16.92$22.74$24.29$18.31$4.30$4.97$4.34$4.43$4.15
Selling, general & administrative$3.36B$3.26B$3.25B$3.03B$2.88B$2.42B$2.56B$2.51B$2.44B$2.35B
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

AUTONATION, INC. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$58.60M$59.80M$60.80M$72.60M$60.40M$569.60M$42.00M$48.60M$69.20M$64.80M
Total assets$14.39B$13.00B$11.98B$10.06B$8.94B$9.89B$10.54B$10.67B$10.27B$10.06B
Current assets$4.65B$4.70B$4.31B$3.14B$2.81B$4.15B$4.41B$4.88B$4.80B$4.71B
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$5.54B$6.31B$5.58B$3.41B$3.06B$4.17B$5.10B$5.66B$5.64B$5.83B
Total equity incl. NCI$2.34B$2.46B$2.21B$2.05B$2.38B$3.24B$3.16B$2.72B$2.37B$2.31B
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$3.40B$3.36B$3.03B$2.05B$1.85B$2.60B$3.31B$3.65B$3.37B$3.52B
Accounts receivable$693.40M$774.00M$762.00M$634.50M$539.90M$595.00M$662.00M$706.70M$1.11B$1.03B
Goodwill$1.41B$1.45B$1.47B$1.32B$1.24B$1.18B$1.50B$1.51B$1.52B$1.51B
Long-term debt$3.70B$2.61B$3.13B$3.59B$2.85B$1.79B$1.58B$1.93B$1.96B$1.61B
Accounts payable$369.90M$376.60M$344.70M$327.60M$395.90M$335.20M$290.30M$306.20M$309.80M$303.70M

Cash flow

AUTONATION, INC. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$111.90M$314.70M$724.00M$1.67B$1.63B$1.21B$769.20M$511.00M$540.10M$516.00M
Capital expenditures$309.40M$328.50M$410.30M$329.00M$215.70M$156.00M$269.30M$400.80M$313.40M$244.50M
Investing cash flow-$687.00M$12.30M-$569.90M-$479.30M-$460.30M-$73.70M-$115.80M-$295.30M-$227.00M-$493.00M
Financing cash flow$557.50M-$300.60M-$172.50M-$1.15B-$1.68B-$606.70M-$660.30M-$237.40M-$307.40M-$35.60M
Net change in cash-$17.60M$26.40M-$18.40M$34.80M-$509.10M$527.20M-$6.90M-$21.70M$5.70M-$12.60M
Stock-based compensation$46.50M$36.50M$39.70M$31.50M$35.00M$30.20M$31.10M$25.50M$20.60M$25.10M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$791.60M$460.00M$874.40M$1.70B$2.32B$367.20M$44.70M$100.00M$434.90M$497.00M
Depreciation & amortizationUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Derived

AUTONATION, INC. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow-$197.50M-$13.80M$313.70M$1.34B$1.41B$1.05B$499.90M$110.20M$226.70M$271.50M
Gross margin17.9%17.9%19.0%19.5%19.2%17.5%16.5%15.9%15.6%15.3%
Operating margin4.5%4.9%6.1%7.5%7.4%2.8%3.9%3.6%3.9%4.1%
FCF margin-0.7%-0.1%1.2%5.0%5.5%5.2%2.3%0.5%1.1%1.3%
SBC / revenue0.2%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%
Current ratio0.84x0.74x0.77x0.92x0.92x1.00x0.86x0.86x0.85x0.81x
Revenue YoY growth3.2%-0.7%-0.1%4.4%26.7%-4.4%-0.4%-0.6%-0.3%Unavailable
Net margin2.3%2.6%3.8%5.1%5.3%1.9%2.1%1.8%2.0%2.0%
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue1.1%1.2%1.5%1.2%0.8%0.8%1.3%1.9%1.5%1.1%
Long-term debt / equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate26.6%24.5%24.4%24.9%24.1%30.6%26.4%25.2%31.7%38.5%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open AN in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-31View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-01View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-12View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-23View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-25View SEC filing

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