Penske Automotive Group, Inc.
Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (PAG) 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 balance sheet tells the story: book value per share is about $86 against a $174.71 price, so you are paying roughly 2x a tangible, asset-heavy dealership base. The asset-based methods land near or above the price, which anchors the downside. - At $174.71 the market pays only about 12x company-wide operating income, a level so low it sits below what even a 5%-a-year decline in operating profit would warrant. The price embeds a business in slow decline, not growth. - The mix is recurring-rev
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362 institutional managers reported holding PAG in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 28% of the company; the top 10 hold 17%. 41 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 2.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (8.9 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.
PAG has cut its share count 18.5% over the past five years, spending $1.72B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 15 years running, raised 5 years straight; the current rate is $5.18 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $812.70M in dividends and $274.70M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at PAG over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 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.
PAG's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-28 | +0.9% | +20.2% |
| 2023-07-28 | -1.2% | +3.4% |
| 2023-10-31 | +1.4% | +12.2% |
| 2024-02-17 | -1.1% | -0.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
PAG's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-14 (items 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-11 (items 2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2025-11-19 (items 1.01, 7.01, 9.01); 2025-10-29 (items 2.02, 7.01, 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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