secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     AUTONATION, INC. (AN)
CIK:        0000350698
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-10-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000350698-24-000108
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AutoNation Q3 EPS $4.61, revenue $6.6B; after-sales gross profit record
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- EPS of $4.61, adjusted EPS of $4.02; CDK outage reduced EPS by ~$0.21.
- Revenue of $6.6B; same-store new vehicle unit sales grew 2% YoY.
- Record after-sales gross profit of $558 million.
- AN Finance YTD originations of $700 million.
- Adjusted EPS excludes $0.59 of net favorable items, mostly property gains.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/350698/000035069824000108/0000350698-24-000108-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/350698/000035069824000108/an-20241025.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000350698-24-000108

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