AutoNation Inc (AN): Today's Featured Specialty Retail Winner
(
) pushed the Specialty Retail industry higher today making it today's featured specialty retail winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, AutoNation rose $1.55 (3.6%) to $44.94 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1,176,130 shares of AutoNation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 712,600 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $43.64-$45.57 after having opened the day at $43.80 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.39. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that increased today were:
(
), up 9.0%,
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), up 6.8%,
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), up 6.8% and
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), up 6.2%.
AutoNation, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an automotive retailer in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Domestic, Import, and Premium Luxury. AutoNation has a market cap of $5.3 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 9.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates AutoNation a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
AutoNation
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full AutoNation Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
Birks & Mayors
(
BMJ
), down 6.1%,
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), down 3.8%,
(
), down 3.4% and
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation
(
), down 2.6%.
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) while those bearish on the specialty retail industry could consider
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).
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