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Asbury Automotive Group IncABG · NYSE

A US company that owns franchised new-vehicle dealerships, collision centers, and a finance & insurance product provider, earning money by selling new and used vehicles, repair parts/services, and finance & insurance products to individual customers.

Summarised by AI from the 10-K, Item 1; the supporting quote was checked against the filing.

Debt-funded acquisition spree and cyclical new-vehicle sales keep the market wary of this dealership roll-up.

EV/EBIT9.5x#19 in US; years of operating profit to buy the whole company
F-score7/97 of 9 checks with data, on a 9-point scale (7+ required)
Return on capital23%Greenblatt's definition
PER8.1xprice ÷ earnings
PBR0.94xprice ÷ book value
Market value$3.8bnEV $7.1bn; cash $89m (2% of market value)
What the price assumes+1.1%/yryearly change in operating profit over ten years that today's value implies (discount rate 9%)

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Results over the years

2022202320242025
SalesOperating profit
2022/122023/122024/122025/12
Sales$15.4bn$14.8bn$17.2bn$18.0bn
Operating profit$1.3bn$954m$836m$861m
Net profit$997m$602m$430m$492m
Operating cash flow$696m$313m$671m$775m

Fiscal years from SEC filings (10-K).

Why the market may be pricing it low

What could close the gap

How a buyer could still lose (value trap)

Drafted by AI on 1 Oct 2026 from the figures on this page and excerpts of the filing only (no web search). Each point's quote was checked by machine against the filing text; points whose quote could not be found are not shown. These are hypotheses, not findings. Latest 10-K (SEC)

Financial quality (Piotroski F-score)

Scored out of the checks with data, scaled to 9. Compares the latest year with the year before.

Figures

Sales
$17.6bn
Operating profit
$746m
Net profit
$468m
Operating cash flow
$770m
Cash
$89m
Debt
$3.4bn
Equity
$4.0bn

Latest twelve months to 2026-09-30; F-score for the fiscal year to 2025-12-31

This site ranks companies whose share price is low relative to their profits, using public filings and market prices, and has AI draft hypotheses on why they are cheap from those filings. The hypotheses are unverified. Nothing here is a price forecast or a recommendation to buy or sell. Not investment advice.

Updated 10 Nov 2026 08:40 JST