SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC. (SAH)

81.00USD +1.99% (+1.58)

Over 1M: -1.7%

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Financials Quarterly

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Revenue Gross Profit Operating Income Cost of Revenue Operating Cash Flow Free Cash Flow Net Income

A share count and earnings a share are not here: neither is money, so neither can share this axis. Both have their own panel on All charts.

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Q3 '25 — Gross Profit: 615.5M Q3 '25 — Free Cash Flow: 134.4M Q3 '25 — Net Income: 46.8M Q4 '25 — Gross Profit: 598.7M Q4 '25 — Free Cash Flow: -195.6M Q4 '25 — Net Income: 46.9M Q1 '26 — Gross Profit: 598.8M Q1 '26 — Free Cash Flow: -1.5M Q1 '26 — Net Income: 60.8M Q2 '26 — Gross Profit: 616.2M Q2 '26 — Free Cash Flow: -217.8M Q2 '26 — Net Income: 57.4M -200M 0 200M 400M 600M 800M
Q3 '25 Q4 '25 Q1 '26 Q2 '26
Gross Profit Free Cash Flow Net Income

How it scores

For a valuation multiple, the low end is the good end.

Quality

How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

3.4
SBC / sales 0.15%
ROIC 12.0%
Adj. EBITDA margin 4.5%
Oper. margin 3.3%
OE margin 0.47%
Accruals 0.65%
Asset turnover 2.4×
Capex / sales 0.48%
ROE 20.7%
ROCE 15.4%
ROA 3.3%
EBITDA margin 4.3%
FCF margin 0.62%
Profit margin 1.4%
Gross margin 15.7%
OCF / EBIT 0.33×
OCF margin 1.1%

5 of 17 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Valuation

What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

7.0
EV/EBIT 9.6×
EV/OE 67.3×
EV/GP 2.0×
EV/Sales 0.32×
P/E 12.2×
Div. yield 1.8%
FCF yield 3.7%
P/B 2.5×
Shareholder yield 2.4%
P/C 134.7×
Fwd P/E —
PEG —

2 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Durability

How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

8.1
Gross margin stability across years 0.58 pp
Cash-flow margin stability 1.3 pp
Revenue growth in the worst year on record -1.0%
Prepaid revenue growth —
RPO / sales —
RPO growth —
Segment HHI —

3 of 7 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

2.1
ND/EBITDA -0.47
Interest cover 2.7×
Current ratio 1.0×
Payout 22.3%
F-score 6.0 pts
Cash / Debt 0.0082×
Debt / Eq 2.3×
Debt payback 24.3 yr
Equity / Assets 16.1%
Net debt / Eq 2.3×
Quick ratio 0.25×
Cash runway —

3 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Growth

Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

3.2
Most recent margin move 0.91
Operating margin trend 0.3
Sales/sh Y/Y +6.2%
Sales CAGR 4Y +5.1%
Div. growth +19.6%
Shares change -0.86%
EBIT CAGR +14.9%
EBIT Y/Y +38.3%
EPS Y/Y +35.4%
Gross profit Y/Y +8.7%
Sales Q/Q +7.6%
EPS CAGR 4Y -19.3%
EPS next Y —

4 of 13 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

A measure absent from a block could not be computed from this company's filings. It is left out rather than scored as though it were bad, and the dimension is averaged over what remains. A score is measured against a fixed scale this model states; the bar is measured against the other companies, so the two can disagree — and where they do, that disagreement is the more interesting figure.