Consumer Cyclical
Live Price
Offline$80.73
+3.33% today
1Y Change
+5.46%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Sonic Automotive, Inc. (SAH) is a Consumer Cyclical stock with a market cap of $2.56B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $80.73 and up 5.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +6.5%, EPS growth of -44.9%, a dividend yield of 2.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +6.5%, EPS -44.9%, free cash flow +566.0% with operating margin 3.5% and ROIC 6.5%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 2.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 23.3 and price/sales 0.2. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines SAH price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Cyclical peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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SAH
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
SAH Max Drawdown
-34.34%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for SAH and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$12.4B
-11.5% YoY
FY Net Income
$348.9M
+294.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$503.5M
+227.2% YoY
Revenue Growth
+6.5%
EPS Growth
-44.9%
Gross Margin
14.8%
Net Margin
0.7%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 15.2B | 14.2B | 14.4B | 14.0B | 12.4B |
| Gross Profit | 2.2B | 2.0B | 2.1B | 2.2B | 1.8B |
| Operating Income | 541M | 460M | 524M | 635M | 537M |
| EBITDA | 531M | 611M | 565M | 441M | 623M |
| Net Income | 119M | 216M | 178M | 89M | 349M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 6M | 44M | 29M | 229M | 299M |
| Total Assets | 6.0B | 5.9B | 5.4B | 5.0B | 5.0B |
| Total Liabilities | 4.9B | 4.8B | 4.5B | 4.1B | 3.9B |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.1B | 1.1B | 892M | 895M | 1.1B |
| Total Debt | 4.2B | 4.1B | 3.9B | 3.5B | 3.3B |
| Net Debt | 4.2B | 4.1B | 3.8B | 3.3B | 3.0B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
802M
+110.4% YoY
Capital Expenditures
298M
-31.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
504M
+227.2% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
14.8%
Operating Margin
3.5%
Net Margin
0.7%
ROE
10.5%
Debt / Equity
4.51x
Next Step
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