AutoNation (AN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for AutoNation in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" AN shares.
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7 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for AutoNation's shares. Their AN share price targets range from $140.00 to $215.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $174.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.4% from the stock's current price.
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AutoNation's stock was trading at $150.18 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, AN stock has increased by 1.5% and is now trading at $152.36.
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AutoNation saw a drop in short interest in February. As of February 29th, there was short interest totaling 3,160,000 shares, a drop of 9.5% from the February 14th total of 3,490,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 407,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.8 days. Currently, 11.6% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 26th 2024.
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AutoNation will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, April 26th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 866-813-9403 with passcode "457858".

AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February, 13th. The company reported $5.02 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.85 by $0.17. The business earned $6.77 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.67 billion. AutoNation had a net margin of 3.79% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 48.76%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 1.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $6.37 earnings per share.

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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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. (0.64%), Alaska Permanent Fund Corp (0.04%), Davis Capital Management (0.02%), Sanders Morris Harris LLC (0.01%), Atlas Capital Advisors LLC (0.01%) and Abacus Planning Group Inc. (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include C Coleman Edmunds, Cascade Investment, LLC, Christopher Cade, David B Edelson, Edward S Lampert, George Lawrence Mikan III, Jacqueline A Travisano, James R Bender, Joseph T Lower, Kimberly Dees, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, 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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