Advance Auto Parts - AAP Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street research 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 research analysts is that investors should "buy" AAP shares.
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17 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Advance Auto Parts' stock. Their AAP share price forecasts range from $195.00 to $282.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $242.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 17.9% from the stock's current price.
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Advance Auto Parts' stock was trading at $239.88 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, AAP shares have decreased by 14.4% and is now trading at $205.33.
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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 days-to-cover ratio is currently 5.0 days. Approximately 7.0% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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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) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May, 23rd. The company reported $3.57 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.53 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $3.40 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.39 billion. Advance Auto Parts had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 24.74% and a net margin of 5.16%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $3.34 EPS.
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Advance Auto Parts announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 17th will be paid a dividend of $1.50 per share on Friday, July 1st. This represents a $6.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.92%. 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 2.96%. 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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Clearbridge Investments LLC (5.25%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (4.35%), Champlain Investment Partners LLC (2.66%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (2.51%), River Road Asset Management LLC (1.53%) and Scharf Investments LLC (1.36%). 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 $205.33.

Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) has a market capitalization of $12.45 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.