Autozone Inc (AZO) saw an uptrend of 1.63% in the recent trading with $3522.02 being its most recent. The current price level -19.74% lower than the highest price of $4388.11 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 11.39% higher than the lowest price of $3162.00 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on AZO appeared in (Insider Monkey) under the title “Jim Cramer on AutoZone: “This Company Always Pivots and Always Pivots Well””.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Strong Buy by 18 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 1.48 for the stock.
Autozone Inc Earnings – What Happened With AZO
Coming around sales and income figures on AZO Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Autozone Inc (AZO) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 2/28/2025, posting a surprise factor of -2.35% for net revenue.
AZO – Autozone Inc Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Autozone Inc (NYSE:AZO),s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 28.97 for stock,s EPS in the current quarter. Autozone Inc (AZO) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 2/28/2025, posting a surprise factor of -2.35% for net revenue. Company,s EPS for the last quarter was 28.29.
Autozone Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 16.59 million. AZO does have institutional investors; and they hold 94.64% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Autozone Inc (NYSE:AZO) with an ownership of 1.76 million shares of the company or 10.2157 of the stake worth $5.23 billion. The filing also reveals JPMORGAN CHASE & CO as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 7.7052 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $3.94 billion for having 1.33 million shares in hand.
BLACKROCK INC. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 7.2227 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1849.0 institutions which have possession in AZO,s shares.
