AZOAutoZone
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though priced for +12% a year vs +8% a year delivered.
Priced for ~12% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 8% a year, priced for acceleration.
Sector median 16.2× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
All from derived, as of May 9, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What AZO's price assumes
AutoZone trades at 22.3× earnings against 17.6× for the median Auto Parts name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Auto Parts median 17.6 · 1.26× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.75
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to May 9, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.1%
Free cash flow yield · Auto Parts median 6.1%
- Growth the price implies
- +12%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +12% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −17% a year over the last three.
Details›
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to May 9, 2026
- 18.0
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to May 9, 2026
- 3.24
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
- 17.8
- Auto Parts median P/E36 names
- 17.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.55B
- Market capitalisation
- $50.2B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +7.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −17%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Auto Parts
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