Sonic Automotive Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:SAH)

Sonic Automotive trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "SAH."

Sonic Automotive announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 13th will be given a dividend of $0.10 per share on Tuesday, October 15th. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.35%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 12th. View Sonic Automotive's Dividend History.

Sonic Automotive Inc (NYSE:SAH) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 25th. The company reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.47 by $0.15. The business had revenue of $2.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.52 billion. Sonic Automotive had a net margin of 1.05% and a return on equity of 11.27%. The business's revenue was up 4.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.35 EPS. View Sonic Automotive's Earnings History.

Sonic Automotive is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Sonic Automotive.

Sonic Automotive will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 24th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

5 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Sonic Automotive's shares. Their predictions range from $20.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate Sonic Automotive's stock price to reach $25.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Sonic Automotive.

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sonic Automotive in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Sonic Automotive.

Press coverage about SAH stock has been trending negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Sonic Automotive earned a news impact score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Sonic Automotive.

Sonic Automotive saw a drop in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 3,260,000 shares, a drop of 7.4% from the August 30th total of 3,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 302,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 10.8 days. Currently, 14.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Sonic Automotive's Current Options Chain.

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Sonic Automotive's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Denali Advisors LLC (0.18%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%) and Alpha Windward LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own Sonic Automotive stock include Heath Byrd, Jeff Dyke and O Bruton Smith. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Sonic Automotive.

SAH stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Denali Advisors LLC, Alpha Windward LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Sonic Automotive.

Shares of SAH can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SAH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $29.53.

Sonic Automotive has a market capitalization of $1.27 billion and generates $9.95 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $51.65 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.77 on an earnings per share basis. Sonic Automotive employs 9,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Sonic Automotive.

The official website for Sonic Automotive is http://www.sonicautomotive.com/.

Sonic Automotive's mailing address is 4401 COLWICK ROAD, CHARLOTTE NC, 28211. The company can be reached via phone at 704-566-2400 or via email at [email protected]