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NYSE · Retail-Auto & Home Supply Stores · CIK 0001158449
$44.18
+2.98% · delayed 15 min
$2.65B market value
What this company does
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS sells cars and fuel. It took in $8.60B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 1 cents is left as profit.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K
Deteriorated: -5.4%
$9.09B to $8.60B
Improved: turned positive
-$336.0M to $44.0M
Improved: +5.9 pts
37.5% to
It makes a profit rather than burning through money.
$44.0M earned last year
A widely used bankruptcy-risk model places it well clear of distress.
Altman Z 3.09
Reported profit is running well ahead of the cash actually coming in.
$44.0M profit vs -$46.0M cash
Sales are shrinking rather than growing.
down 5.4% on last year
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 16.7% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $44.0M last year. Note that operations still consumed cash despite the reported profit.
What it earns, what it keeps, and what it costs to run — all from the same filing
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It paid out more than it earned — 136 cents for every dollar of profit. A payment above earnings has to be funded from somewhere else, so it is worth checking whether that can continue. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
WeakNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $44.0M and generated -$46.0M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to one of these filings.
Straight from SEC EDGAR — the original source for every figure above
| Filing | Filed | Covers to |
|---|---|---|
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-08-20 | 2026-07-18 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-08-20 | 2026-08-20 |
Financial figures are from AAP's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-01-03), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
3.09
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.87
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +4.2 pts
-3.7% to 0.5%
Deteriorated: $202.0M wider
-$96.0M to -$298.0M
Deteriorated: +90.7%
$1.79B to $3.41B
Improved: +67.1%
$1.87B to $3.12B
Changed: +39.2%
$181.0M to $252.0M
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
No. Sales shrank 5.4% last year.
Yes — it carries debt while operations are consuming cash rather than generating it. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.23 in assets.
Expensive. Investors pay $60.2 for every $1 of yearly profit, so a lot of future growth is already priced in.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
At a glance
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-06-26 | 2026-06-24 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-05-22 | 2026-05-20 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-05-21 | 2026-04-25 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-05-21 | 2026-05-21 |
| Shareholder voting information(DEF 14A) | 2026-04-01 | 2026-04-01 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-03-10 | 2026-03-09 |
| Annual report(10-K) | 2026-02-13 | 2026-01-03 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-02-13 | 2026-02-13 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-01-13 | 2026-01-12 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-10-30 | 2025-10-04 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-30 | 2025-10-27 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-30 | 2025-10-30 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-08-14 | 2025-07-12 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-08-14 | 2025-08-12 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-08-05 | 2025-08-04 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-07-24 | 2025-07-24 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-07-24 | 2025-07-24 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-05-22 | 2025-04-19 |
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