AutoZone, Inc. (AZO)

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AutoZone, 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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AutoZone, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $11 billion in fiscal 2017 to $20 billion in fiscal 2026, up 7.2% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-08-29, AutoZone, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 4.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 72% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 26 sales and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-08-29, AutoZone, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 49 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 112 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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AutoZone, Inc.'s standing among 6 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $20 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 8% by size; a net margin of 12.6% ranks in the top 25%; revenue growth of 5.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 25% (its annual reports).

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AutoZone, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Daniele, Philip B. (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-01-04, 2.9 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 28 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.4 years (top 25%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 28 people in charge now (top 42%; 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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AutoZone, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $326 million against debt of $9.1 billion leaves -40.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.9% of revenue (top 25%); a gross margin of 52.3% (top 8%) (its annual report).

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AutoZone, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 5.2% a year over the last three filed years against 7.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 42% of its family); the newest year grew 7.4% (top 8%); capital spending grew 21.6% a year (top 25%) (its annual reports). AutoZone, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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AutoZone, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $20 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 3.1% above the $20 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 30% of its family); net income of $2.6 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.6 billion (top 30%); a net margin of 12.6% against 14% before (top 50%) (its annual reports).