For the quarter ended November 2025, AutoZone (AZO) reported revenue of $4.63 billion, up 8.2% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $31.04, compared to $32.52 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.64 billion, representing a surprise of -0.25%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of -3.72%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $32.24.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how AutoZone performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Same store sales - Domestic - YoY change: 4.8% compared to the 4.9% average estimate based on six analysts.
- Total Same Store Sales (Constant Currency): 4.7% versus the six-analyst average estimate of 5.6%.
- Square footage - Total: 52,219.00 Ksq ft compared to the 52,371.60 Ksq ft average estimate based on four analysts.
- Total Same Store Sales: 5.5% versus the four-analyst average estimate of 5.7%.
- Total Auto-Zone Store: 7,710 versus 7,711 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Number of stores - Domestic: 6,666 compared to the 6,659 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Square footage per store: 6.77 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of 6.8 million.
- Sales per average square foot: $89 thousand compared to the $89.16 thousand average estimate based on three analysts.
- Same store sales- International: 11.2% compared to the 9% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Number of stores - Opened-Brazil: 2 versus 6 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Number of stores - Opened-Mexico: 12 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 7.
- Net Sales- Domestic Commercial sales: $1.29 billion compared to the $1.27 billion average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +14.5% year over year.
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Shares of AutoZone have returned +1% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1.9% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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