---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-006024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AZO"
cik: "0000866787"
company_name: "AUTOZONE INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:55:56.054118+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AutoZone Q4 EPS $48.71, same-store sales +5.1% constant currency

## Summary
- Q4 net sales $6.2B, up 6.9% adjusted; total same-store sales +5.1% constant currency.
- Domestic same-store sales +4.8%; international +7.2% on constant currency basis.
- Gross margin 51.5%, down 98 bps on $80M non-cash LIFO charge; operating profit -7.8% to $1.2B.
- Repurchased 117K shares for $446.7M in Q4 at avg $3,821; $632.3M remaining authorization.
- Opened 141 net new stores in Q4; total store count 7,657 (6,627 US, 883 Mexico, 147 Brazil).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-006024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AZO
- cik: 0000866787
- company_name: AUTOZONE INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184325006024/0001171843-25-006024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/866787/000117184325006024/f8k_092225.htm

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