Advance Auto Parts - AAP Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Advance Auto Parts in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 11 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" AAP shares.
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17 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Advance Auto Parts' stock. Their AAP share price forecasts range from $195.00 to $282.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $242.17 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.6% from the stock's current price.
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Advance Auto Parts' stock was trading at $239.88 at the start of the year. Since then, AAP shares have decreased by 15.6% and is now trading at $202.53.
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Advance Auto Parts saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,220,000 shares, an increase of 21.3% from the June 30th total of 3,480,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 845,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.0 days. Approximately 7.0% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 23rd 2022.
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Advance Auto Parts will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, August 24th at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE:AAP) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May, 23rd. The company reported $3.57 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.53 by $0.04. The business earned $3.40 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.39 billion. Advance Auto Parts had a net margin of 5.16% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 24.74%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $3.34 EPS.
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Advance Auto Parts announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, June 17th will be given a dividend of $1.50 per share on Friday, July 1st. This represents a $6.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.96%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 16th.
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Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.04%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 66.82%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, AAP will have a dividend payout ratio of 38.86% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Advance Auto Parts updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Monday, June, 20th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $13.30-$13.85 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.70. The company issued revenue guidance of $11.20 billion-$11.50 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $11.40 billion.

538 employees have rated Advance Auto Parts Chief Executive Officer Thomas Greco on Glassdoor.com. Thomas Greco has an approval rating of 63% among the company's employees. This puts Thomas Greco in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Advance Auto Parts trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AAP."

Advance Auto Parts' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Clearbridge Investments LLC (5.25%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (4.35%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (2.51%), River Road Asset Management LLC (1.53%), Scharf Investments LLC (1.36%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.18%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew E Page, Carla Jean Bailo, Natalie Schechtman, Robert B Cushing and Tammy M Finley.
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One share of AAP stock can currently be purchased for approximately $202.53.

Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) has a market capitalization of $12.28 billion and generates $11.00 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $616.11 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.98 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 68,000 workers across the globe.

Advance Auto Parts was founded in 1932.

Advance Auto Parts' mailing address is 2635 East Millbrook Road, Raleigh NC, 24012. The official website for the company is www.advanceautoparts.com. The company can be reached via phone at (540) 362-4911, via email at invrelations@advanceautoparts.com, or via fax at 540-561-1448.