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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Retail · CIK 0001023128
$269.13
-10.15% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$6.32B market value
From LITHIA MOTORS INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 · read the filing
LITHIA MOTORS sells cars and fuel. It took in $37.63B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 2 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability and growth worth watching, while debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Stork David, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$119.5K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From LITHIA MOTORS INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$73.7M → $5.8M
Shares in issue
26.4M → 23.5M
Earnings per share
$30.18 → $34.88
Long-term debt
$8.17B → $9.68B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 25, 2026
Deteriorated: -92.1%
$73.7M to $5.8MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
LAD fell 10.15% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Discretionary company tracked here moved +2.21%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 12.4 points below its sector and 9.1 points below the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 20 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 20 analysts publishing on this company, 7 say strong buy, 8 say buy and 5 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 2 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $819.6M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 4.0% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 26.4 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.36 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 7 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 16% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $819.6M and generated $356.7M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 25, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 24, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 23, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 24, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $37.63B | $36.19B | $31.04B | $28.19B | $22.83B | +4.0% |
| Cost of revenue | $31.90B | $30.63B | $25.81B | $23.04B | $18.57B | +4.2% |
| Gross profit | $5.73B | $5.56B | $5.23B | $5.15B | $4.26B | +3.1% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 15.2% | 15.4% | 16.8% | 18.3% | 18.7% | −0.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $3.94B | $3.76B | $3.29B | $3.04B | $2.48B | +5.0% |
| Operating income | $1.59B | $1.57B | $1.69B | $1.94B | $1.66B | +1.7% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 4.2% | 4.3% | 5.5% | 6.9% | 7.3% | −0.1 pts |
| Interest expense | $275.5M | $257.8M | $201.2M | $129.1M | $103.4M | +6.9% |
| Income before tax | $1.11B | $1.07B | $1.36B | $1.73B | $1.48B | +3.5% |
| Net income | $819.6M | $796.7M | $1.00B | $1.25B | $1.06B | +2.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 2.2% | 2.2% | 3.2% | 4.4% | 4.6% | −0.0 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $34.88 | $30.18 | $36.53 | $45.82 | $35.94 | +15.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LADLITHIA MOTORS INC · this page | 6.0/10 | 4/9 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 47 shares
Holds 1,207 shares after this filing.
Shares were sold back to the company — 540 shares
Holds 884 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from LAD's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 25, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.0 | 4/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 5.0 | 3/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.7 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
1.95
In the grey 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.
-2.45
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 FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: -11.0%
26.4M to 23.5MCritical
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Improved: +15.6%
$30.18 to $34.88Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +18.5%
$8.17B to $9.68BSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -12.2%
$445.8M to $391.3MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 29, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -45.6%
$202.8M to $110.3MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -14.4%
25.7M to 22.0MCritical
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Improved: +18.6%
$9.96 to $11.82Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +5.4%
$425.3M to $448.3MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 29, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +159.0%
$100.4M to $260.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +168.4%
$4.40 to $11.82Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +33.5%
$335.8M to $448.3MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -31.4%
$160.8M to $110.3MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +5.6%
$9.27B to $9.79BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +5.3%
$1.42B to $1.50BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +1.6 pts
1.1% to 2.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -3.5%
22.8M to 22.0MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
9 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 8.3% 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.
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.
The trailing P/E is 7.6x — investors pay $7.6 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Sold on the open market — 75 shares at $370.73 ($27.8K)
Holds 2,300 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 320 shares at $373.49 ($119.5K)
Holds 5,401 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 81 shares at $385.42 ($31.2K)
Holds 26,137 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 75 shares ($27.8K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Filed notice to sell 320 shares ($119.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
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.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Cash -45.6% · Shares in issue -14.4% · Earnings per share +18.6% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results · Reported another event
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Profit margin −1.2 pts · Profit -52.1% · Free cash flow turned negative — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Free cash flow -92.1% · Shares in issue -11.0% · Earnings per share +15.6% — against FY2024
Read the filingAmended its charter or changed its financial year
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Shares in issue -8.3% · Earnings per share +14.2% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingPrimary sources and further research