AutoNation, Inc. (AN)

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AutoNation, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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AutoNation, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $22 billion in fiscal 2016 to $28 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2.8% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, AutoNation, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 12.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 10 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, AutoNation, Inc. earned about 28 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 34 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 84 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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AutoNation, Inc.'s standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $28 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 12% by size; a net margin of 2.3% ranks in the top 45%; revenue growth of 0.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

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AutoNation, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Manley, Michael Mark (CEO and Director, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-11-03, 5 years (bottom 47% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (bottom 31%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (top 19%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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AutoNation, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $59 million against debt of $3.7 billion leaves -25.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 43% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -0.7% of revenue (bottom 24%); a gross margin of 17.9% (top 47%) (its annual report).

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AutoNation, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.8% a year over the last three filed years against 2.8% over all 10, slowing (top 21% of its family); the newest year grew 3.2% (bottom 45%); capital spending grew -2% a year (bottom 36%) (its annual reports). AutoNation, Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: AN Reportable Segment Premium Luxury at $10 billion (37%), AN Reportable Segment Import at $8.4 billion (31%), AN Reportable Segment Domestic at $7.5 billion (27%), and 1 more; 4 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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AutoNation, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $28 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.7% above the $27 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 36% of its family); net income of $649 million against a prior three-year average of $1.0 billion (bottom 31%); a net margin of 2.3% against 3.8% before (bottom 40%) (its annual reports).