The underlying tendency is to the upside for shares in O'Reilly Automotive, Inc and the timing is opportune to get back into the stock. A comeback of the upward dynamic can be anticipated.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.
● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 364.1 USD
Weaknesses
● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at USD 504.65.
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. is one of the largest American distributors of automotive parts. The products are sold under own brands (BesTest®, BrakeBest®, Cartek®, Import Direct®, MasterPro®, MicroGard®, Murray®, Omnispark®, O'Reilly Auto Parts®, Precision®, Power Torque®, Super Start®, Syntec® and Ultima®) and third-party brands (AC Delco, Armor All, Bosch, Castrol, Dorman, Fel-Pro, Gates Rubber, Lucas Oil, Mobil1, Monroe, Moog, Pennzoil, Prestone, Standard, STP, Turtle Wax, Valvoline, Wagner et Wix). The group's activity is primarily organized around 3 families of products:
- automotive parts: alternator, starters, water pumps, chassis parts, etc.;
- maintenance products: antifreeze, filters, etc.;
- accessories: primarily automotive carpets and seat covers.
At the end of 2022, the products were marketed through a network of 5,971 stores located in the United States (5,929) and Mexico (42).