AutoNation Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:AN)

5 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AutoNation in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" AN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for AutoNation's shares. Their AN share price targets range from $117.00 to $245.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $173.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 31.0% from the stock's current price.
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AutoNation's stock was trading at $107.30 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, AN shares have increased by 23.6% and is now trading at $132.60.
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AutoNation saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,860,000 shares, an increase of 5.5% from the October 31st total of 3,660,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 511,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.5 days. Approximately 14.2% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 16th 2024.
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AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October, 27th. The company reported $5.54 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $5.42 by $0.12. The business earned $6.89 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.71 billion. AutoNation had a net margin of 4.06% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 54.72%. AutoNation's revenue was up 3.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $6.00 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of AutoNation (NYSE:AN) stock in their portfolio include Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Value ETF (DVLU), Cambria Value and Momentum ETF (VAMO), iShares Focused Value Factor ETF (FOVL), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD), SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT) and Euclidean Fundamental Value ETF (ECML).

41 employees have rated AutoNation Chief Executive Officer Mike Jackson on Glassdoor.com. Mike Jackson has an approval rating of 67% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other AutoNation investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), General Motors (GM), Micron Technology (MU), American International Group (AIG), Best Buy (BBY), Ford Motor (F), Tesla (TSLA), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Bank of America (BAC).

AutoNation's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include LSV Asset Management (1.99%), Invesco Ltd. (1.78%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1.58%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (1.48%), Morgan Stanley (1.41%) and AQR Capital Management LLC (1.25%). Insiders that own company stock include C Coleman Edmunds, Cascade Investment, LLC, Christopher Cade, David B Edelson, Edward S Lampert, George Lawrence Mikan III, James R Bender, Joseph T Lower, Marc G Cannon, Marc G Cannon, Michael J Jackson, Michael J Jackson, Michael Mark Manley, Rick L Burdick and Robert R Grusky.
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Shares of AN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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