Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. AutoNation ( AN) pushed the Specialty Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Specialty Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.2%. By the end of trading, AutoNation fell $0.58 (-1.1%) to $54.11 on average volume. Throughout the day, 775,582 shares of AutoNation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 942,700 shares. The stock ranged in price between $53.96-$55.05 after having opened the day at $54.80 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.69. Other companies within the Specialty Retail industry that declined today were: Royal Philips ( PHG), down 5.6%, Odyssey Marine Exploration ( OMEX), down 2.3% and Perfumania Holdings ( PERF), down 1.9%. 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 $6.6 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 10.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate AutoNation a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates AutoNation as a buy. 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.
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