Is the price fair?
What SAH's price assumes
Sonic Automotive, Inc. trades at 24.9× earnings against 23.1× for the median Auto & Truck Dealerships name, more expensive than its own group.
24.9
Trailing P/E · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 23.1 · 1.07× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.15
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.6%
Free cash flow yield · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 7.1%
- Growth the price implies
- +21%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +21% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; revenue has grown +2.7% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 2.36
- EV / EBIToperating margin 2.3%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 0.27
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E263 names
- 22.0
- Auto & Truck Dealerships median P/E15 names
- 23.1
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $40M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.55B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.7%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 19.4× today against a 8.90× median |
| 52-week range | $57.63 – $104.67 |
| Today | $78.03 |
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 & Truck Dealerships
Ranks #14 of 15 by Smart Score