Is the business good?
How good a business is ABG?
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. earns 8.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.28 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 4.6%
Operating margin · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 5.3% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.37×
Cash conversion · 1.54× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −3.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 5.2% |
| FY2021 | 8.1% |
| FY2022 | 8.3% |
| FY2023 | 6.4% |
| FY2024 | 4.9% |
| FY2025 | 4.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 17%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.6%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 3.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.2%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $18.0B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $752M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $548M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Auto & Truck Dealerships
Ranks #7 of 15 by Smart Score