Ratings Sonic Automotive, Inc.

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SAH

US83545G1022

Market Closed - Nyse Other stock markets 04:00:02 2024-05-31 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
56.67 ^USD	+1.43%		+0.12%	+0.82%

May. 09	Sonic Automotive Insider Sold Shares Worth $3,957,426, According to a Recent SEC Filing	MT
Apr. 30	Sonic Automotive, Inc. Announces Chief Marketing Officer Changes, Effective May 1, 2024	CI

Summary

Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.

Strengths

The company's attractive earnings multiples are brought to light by a P/E ratio at 9.86 for the current year.
The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.24 times its sales.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.

Weaknesses

According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last four months, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been revised negatively.
The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.

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Sector: Auto Vehicles, Parts & Service Retailers

	1st Jan change	Capi.	Investor Rating	ESG Refinitiv
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.	+0.82%	1.92B		C
D'IETEREN GROUP	+12.83%	11.46B		B+
HOTAI MOTOR CO.,LTD.	-13.40%	10.52B	-	B
PENSKE AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC.	-5.24%	10.17B		C+
AUTONATION, INC.	+13.36%	6.86B		B-
ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC.	+4.49%	4.74B		C+
RUSH ENTERPRISES, INC.	-10.28%	3.5B		C
TUHU CAR INC.	-8.90%	2.65B		-
DOGUS OTOMOTIV SERVIS VE TICARET	+17.90%	2.01B		A
EAGERS AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED	-30.11%	1.73B		C+

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