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AutoNation (AN)

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$216.29 USD

216.29
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-4.24 (-1.92%)

Updated Sep 25, 2025 03:46 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.64%
2Buy17.83%
3Hold9.69%
4Sell5.29%
5Strong Sell2.54%
S&P50011.29%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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B Value F Growth A Momentum B VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 24% (59 out of 246)

Industry: Automotive - Retail and Whole Sales

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Zacks News

Zacks Equity Research

AutoNation (AN) Q4 Earnings Miss Estimates, Fall Y/Y

by Zacks Equity Research

AutoNation delivered adjusted earnings of 95 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2016, which decreased from 96 cents recorded in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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    AutoNation (AN) Q4 Earnings: Disappointment in the Cards?

    by Zacks Equity Research

    AutoNation, Inc. (AN) is expected to report fourth-quarter and full year 2016 results, before the market opens on Feb 3.

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      Timeout from Q3 Earnings: GDP +2.9%

      by Mark Vickery

      With GDP at 2.9% in Q3 (first read), we are seeing a snap-back from below-trend growth earlier in the year.

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        5 Retail Stocks to Win Over Investors in Q1 Earnings Season

        by Zacks Equity Research

        The prospects of the retail sector look promising as it is positioned to gain from an improving U.S. economy

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          Stock Picking Ideas from Economic Reports

          by Kevin Matras

          Kevin Matras shows how to find winning stock picking ideas in the government's economic reports, especially the recent Employment Situation report. Highlighted stocks include RPXC, PII, AN, LOPE and ACHC.