AUTONATION, INC.
AN · Consumer Discretionary · $5.5B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · · Shallow moat ·
Doesn't clear the bar
The five investor questions
2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $25.8B to $27.6B, increasing; diluted EPS 18.31 to 17.04, decreasing.
Median gross margin 17.7% over 10y, stable.
Median ROIC 13.1%, above the 12% hurdle in 50% of years.
Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage 7x.
Not enough owner-earnings history to score capital discipline.
The capitalDiscipline component abstained: Not enough owner-earnings history to score capital discipline. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
- Not reported
- Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
- Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
- $156.80
- No price data
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. Flag status unavailable — four adjacent recent FY revenue observations are required.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 216% above the zero-growth estimate across 49 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Score records captured Sep 29, 2026 through Sep 30, 2026.
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Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
Fundamentals
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Moat Score history
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)tomoat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0tomoat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
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Consumer Discretionary context
#271 of 487 scored Consumer Discretionary companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
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- #273F Ford Motor Co41.9 out of 100, Shallow moatShallow moat
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Common questions about AN
- Does AUTONATION, INC. have an economic moat?
- Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores AUTONATION, INC. (AN) 42.4 out of 100 — a Shallow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 50, pricing power 28, returns on capital 53, balance-sheet safety 40, capital allocation not measurable from the filings.
- How has AN's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 21 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 42.4 out of 100 (shallow moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.