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Autonation, Inc. AN

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$27.6B

▲ 3.2% YoY

Net income

$649.1M

▼ 6.2% YoY

Free cash flow

$-197.5M

In brief

What this company does

AutoNation owned and operated 323 new vehicle franchises from 245 stores in the United States as of December 31, 2025, predominantly in major metropolitan markets in the Sunbelt region. It sells new and used vehicles, carries out automotive repair and maintenance, runs wholesale parts and collision businesses, and arranges financing for vehicle purchases through third-party finance sources. The company also owned and operated 52 collision centers, 26 AutoNation USA used vehicle stores, 4 automotive auction operations and 3 parts distribution centers, together with a mobile automotive repair and maintenance business and an auto finance company. Its core new vehicle brands, approximately 89% of the new vehicles it sold in 2025, are manufactured by Toyota, Honda, Ford, General Motors, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Volkswagen. As of December 31, 2025, the business was reported in four segments: Domestic, Import, Premium Luxury, and AutoNation Finance. The Domestic, Import, and Premium Luxury segments are made up of retail automotive franchises, whose stores also sell used vehicles, parts and automotive repair and maintenance services, and automotive finance and insurance products. The AutoNation Finance segment is the captive auto finance company, which provides indirect financing to qualified retail customers on vehicles the company sells. In 2025, approximately 37% of total revenue was generated by Premium Luxury franchises, 30% by Import franchises and 27% by Domestic franchises.

Written from the business description in AUTONATION, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 27.6B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 27.6 · Net income 0.6

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+0.8%

+6.3%

+2.9%

+5.5%

Net income

−22.2%

+11.2%

+3.9%

+7.3%

EPS, diluted

−11.1%

+31.7%

+15.9%

+18.0%

Returned to shareholders

−22.5%

+20.3%

+14.3%

+3.5%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.3% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +11.2%, earnings per share at +31.7%.

The share count fell from 0.08B to 0.04B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

2 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 4.5% · Net 2.3%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 27.1%

Gross margin17.9%

Operating margin4.5%

Net margin2.3%

Return on assets4.7%

EBITDA—

Each USD of equity produced 27 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 790.9M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $B

FY2025 · FCF -0.2

Net buybacks $B Dividends $B

FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 0.8

Dividends paid—

Net buybacksUSD 790.9M

Share of profit121.8%

Consecutive raises—

USD 790.9M in buybacks — 122% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 14.4B

EquityUSD 2.3B

CashUSD 58.6M

Gross debtUSD 3.7B

Net debtUSD 3.6B

Current ratio0.84×

Net debt stands at 156% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
Revenue $B	27.6	26.8	26.9	27.0	25.8	20.4	21.3	21.4	21.5	21.6	20.9	19.1	17.5	15.7	13.8	12.5	10.7	13.2
Operating income $B	1.2	1.3	1.7	2.0	1.9	0.6	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	−1.3
EBITDA $B	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	0.7	0.6	0.5	−1.2
Income tax $B	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	−0.2
Net income $B	0.6	0.7	1.0	1.4	1.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	−1.2
Free cash flow $B	−0.2	−0.0	0.3	1.3	1.4	1.1	0.5	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.6
EPS, diluted $	17.04	16.92	22.74	24.29	18.31	4.30	4.97	4.34	4.43	4.15	3.89	3.52	3.04	2.52	1.91	1.43	1.12	−6.99
Dividend / sh $	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
ROE %	27.1	29.7	47.9	62.3	48.9	11.9	15.3	15.6	18.6	18.5	20.0	20.3	20.0	17.7	14.2	10.3	8.6	·
Shares out B	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.11	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.14	0.15	0.17	0.18

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityRetail-Auto Dealers & Gasoline Stations

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2008