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AutoNation, Inc. Consumer Cyclical As of 2026-07-31 Updated daily after market close

quality needs a look, fair valuation.

1 active signal
52-week adjusted-price high
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Valuation 34Quality 56Growth 53Momentum 55Risk / liquidity 74

Is AutoNation, Inc. a buy? Fundamentals and valuation first

  • Quality is weaker than peers. Operating margin is only around the 45th percentile. TTM ROE is about 30.5%.

  • Valuation is middle-of-pack. TTM P/E is near the 60th percentile.

  • Recent volatility is moderate. 60-day annualized volatility is near the 37th percentile. Average 20-day dollar volume is about $92.1M.

  • Signals are active now. 52-week adjusted-price high currently holds; the tables below show what followed in this stock’s own history.

Historical evidence

Signals active now

Each active condition is tested against this stock’s own history and benchmarked versus the S&P 500.

52-week adjusted-price high

Active

Adjusted close first reaches a 252-trading-day high; repeated hits within 20 days count once.

20 historical occurrences (since 2017-11-02)
Average forward return after 52-week adjusted-price high。20-day: Win 36.8%, Sample 19, Median -2.82%, Excess -3.42%, Beat mkt rate 26.3%；60-day: Win 36.8%, Sample 19, Median -4.35%, Excess -4.71%, Beat mkt rate 31.6%；120-day: Win 36.8%, Sample 19, Median -5.24%, Excess -3.87%, Beat mkt rate 26.3%

120 days after: historical avg +1.66%

20-day -2.97%
60-day -2.48%
120-day +1.66%
20-day
60-day
120-day
Win
36.8%
36.8%
36.8%
Sample
19
19
19
Median
-2.82%
-4.35%
-5.24%
Excess
-3.42%
-4.71%
-3.87%
Beat mkt rate
26.3%
31.6%
26.3%

Over 19 occurrences, 120-day forward avg gained 1.66%, lagged the market by 3.87 pts; win rate 36.8%.

Valuation regime and forward returns

Daily TTM P/E is converted into an expanding own-history percentile, then grouped into five valuation regimes. Forward returns use adjusted prices over the next 240 trading days.

PE percentile bandSample days240-day avg returnMedianWin rateAvg excess (vs index)
0-20 508+32.6% +21.7% 89.6% +20.2%
20-40 282+13.4% +12.1% 86.9% +1%
40-60 211+17.6% +17.3% 86.7% +7.1%
60-80 You are here103+14.1% +13% 92.2% -3.9%
80-100 280+75.5% +91.3% 90.4% +50%

Quarterly EPS is aligned by SEC filing date before it is forward-filled to daily prices. The expanding percentile uses only information available up to each day.

Current TTM P/E is about 11.46, placing it in the 74.7 own-history percentile, inside the 60-80 bucket.

Valuation × momentum analogs

Each historical day is grouped by own-history P/E tercile and 60-day momentum direction, then tested for the next 120-trading-day adjusted return.

Valuation
Momentum
Cheap (own-history bottom third)
Middle
Expensive (own-history top third)
60-day momentum up
+6.7%
Win rate 58.7% Excess +2.1%
416d
+3.9%
Win rate 55.1% Excess -2.8%
205d
Now
+28.3%
Win rate 82.3% Excess +16.6%
390d
60-day momentum down
+22.7%
Win rate 88% Excess +16.1%
299d
+17%
Win rate 88.7% Excess +10.6%
115d
+9%
Win rate 50.6% Excess -2.8%
79d

Currently in “Expensive (own-history top third) × 60-day momentum up”: across 390 historical days, 120-day forward avg gained 28.3%, win rate 82.3%, beat the market by 16.6%.

Days = trading days in this bucket; returns use adjusted prices, ex-costs. 60-day momentum: direction of this stock's price over the past 60 trading days.

Market-wide momentum baseline

Across 97,878 liquid US common-stock samples, top-quintile 6-month momentum was followed by an average 60-trading-day return of +6.26%, a 58.3% positive-return rate, and +2.90 percentage points of average excess return versus the S&P 500.

Baseline: weekly samples since 2016 where a liquid US common stock ranked in the top quintile by 126-trading-day momentum. Forward return is 60 trading days; excess return is versus S&P 500 (^GSPC).

Signals not active now

Inactive signals still show the stock-specific historical forward-return distribution for context.

Top-quintile 6-month momentum

Pending

The stock ranks in the top 20% of the liquid US common-stock universe by 126-day adjusted return.

26 times historically; 60-day forward avg +2.33%, win rate 57.7%, beating the market by -2 pts on average.

Filed revenue acceleration

Pending

TTM revenue growth is at least 10% and improved versus the prior filed quarter; event date is the SEC filing date.

EPS surprise beat

Pending

Reported EPS beat consensus estimate by at least 5%; event date is the earnings-surprise timestamp.

24 times historically; 60-day forward avg +7.24%, win rate 68.2%, beating the market by +5.09 pts on average.

Method and limits

  • Returns use us_price:adj_close, adjusted for splits and dividends where available.
  • Excess returns use world_index:^GSPC as the S&P 500 benchmark proxy.
  • Quarterly fundamentals are aligned to SEC filing dates before daily valuation studies.
  • The promoted universe starts from active NYSE/NASDAQ common stocks, then applies price and dollar-volume gates.
  • Snapshot-only tables such as analyst consensus, DCF, us_ratios, and us_key_metrics are intentionally excluded from historical evidence.
  • Overlapping event windows are descriptive distributions, not independent samples.

This page is for historical data analysis and education only. It is not investment advice. Backtests and historical return distributions do not predict future performance; evaluate risk independently before trading.