ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, INC.
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, INC. (AAP) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
- On its through-the-cycle earnings, Advance Auto Parts looks cheap, not expensive. At about 11 times normalized operating income, the price sits below what even a 5% annual decline in operating profit would warrant. The catch is that current earnings are depressed, so the methods that run on trailing numbers paint a very different, much more expensive picture. - The whole thesis is whether the turnaround is real. Q1 2026 delivered the strongest comparable sales growth in five years at 3.5%, gro
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343 institutional managers reported holding AAP in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 38 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, T. Rowe Price, Vanguard Group, among others. On the short side, 12.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 20% of shares outstanding (6.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AAP has cut its share count 7.2% over the past five years, spending $1.37B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $1.00 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $269.66M in dividends and $20.41M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AAP over the trailing three years: 2023: 3 buys totaling $580k; 2024: 9 buys totaling $1.04M; 2025: 4 buys totaling $599k. 23 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AAP's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-24 | +0.8% | -24.9% |
| 2023-11-22 | -8.5% | +24.4% |
| 2024-03-13 | +5.5% | -5.1% |
| 2024-05-31 | -4.6% | -13.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AAP's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-26 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-22 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-21 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-10 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-13 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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