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Lithia Motors Inc. LAD

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
11 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$37.6B
▲ 4.0% YoY
$819.6M
▲ 2.9% YoY
$5.8M
▼ 92.1% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Lithia Motors sells new and used vehicles, financing and insurance products, and aftersales automotive repair and maintenance services. As of December 31, 2025, it operated 455 locations representing 54 brands in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Its subsidiaries employed approximately 30,000 persons on a full-time equivalent basis at the end of that year. The network combines physical locations, e-commerce platforms and captive finance solutions. Each store operates under a separate franchise agreement with the manufacturer of the new vehicle brand that store sells. A captive auto financing division provides financing solutions to customers. Founded in 1946 and incorporated in Oregon in 1968, it completed its initial public offering in 1996.

Written from the business description in LITHIA MOTORS INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 37.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 37.6 · Net income 0.8
20B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+10.1%
+23.4%
+16.9%
+21.5%
−13.1%
+11.7%
+16.2%
+31.3%
−9.9%
+10.6%
+16.7%
+31.7%
+10.6%
+12.3%
+11.1%
+12.3%
+102.4%
+36.1%
+44.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +23.4% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +11.7%, earnings per share at +10.6%.

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 4.2% · Net 2.2%
2%4%6%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 12.4%
10%20%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 12 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 988.7M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 0.0
0.8B-0.4B-0.8B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 55.3 · Net buybacks 933.4
400M800M-400M-800M200920112013201520172019202120232025

USD 55.3M in dividends and USD 933.4M in buybacks — 121% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 25.1B
EquityUSD 6.6B
CashUSD 391.3M
Gross debtUSD 9.7B
Net debtUSD 9.3B
Current ratio1.17×

Net debt stands at 141% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B37.636.231.028.222.813.112.711.810.18.77.95.44.03.32.62.01.7
Operating income $B1.61.61.71.91.70.70.50.40.40.30.30.20.20.10.10.00.0
EBITDA $B1.91.91.92.11.80.80.60.50.50.40.30.30.20.2···
Income tax $B0.30.30.40.50.40.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.80.81.01.31.10.50.30.30.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.1−0.7−0.91.50.40.40.40.0−0.0−0.0−0.1−0.0−0.3−0.0−0.0−0.0
EPS, diluted $32.3229.4536.2944.1736.5419.5311.6010.869.757.726.915.264.053.072.210.520.41
Dividend / sh $2.182.091.921.611.361.221.191.141.060.950.760.61·····
Payout %77544610101112111110151229·
ROE %12.412.417.525.429.122.820.423.324.622.724.423.022.020.217.14.43.0
Shares out B0.020.030.030.030.03············

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityRetail-Auto Dealers & Gasoline Stations
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inOregon
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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