ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC.
ASBURY AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC. (ABG) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
- The counterintuitive finding is how cheap this is: at $197 the stock trades around 8 times operating income, and nearly every valuation method, asset, earnings-power, peer-multiple, and growth, lands well above the price. The book value alone is about $207 per share, more than the stock. - The business is a large franchised auto-dealer group earning a 13.9% return on equity and roughly $28 of earnings per share, with a steady, high-margin parts-and-service segment underneath the cyclical vehic
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298 institutional managers reported holding ABG in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 41 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Abrams Capital, Vanguard Group, among others. On the short side, 1.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (5.5 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.
ABG has cut its share count 1.6% over the past five years, spending $987.90M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $681.10M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at ABG over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $10.57M; 2026: 4 buys totaling $1.16M. 16 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.
ABG's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-29 | -4.7% | +4.6% |
| 2023-10-28 | +1.4% | +20.6% |
| 2024-03-01 | +2.5% | +1.9% |
| 2024-04-27 | +0.2% | +2.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ABG's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-06 (items 5.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-04 (items 5.02, 5.03, 9.01); 2025-12-08 (items 5.02, 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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