For the quarter ended February 2026, AutoZone (AZO) reported revenue of $4.27 billion, up 8.2% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $27.63, compared to $28.29 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.31 billion, representing a surprise of -0.82%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of +1.94%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $27.10.
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.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how AutoZone performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Total Same Store Sales (Constant Currency): 3.3% versus 5.2% estimated by six analysts on average.
- Same store sales - Domestic - YoY change: 3.4% versus the five-analyst average estimate of 5.2%.
- Square footage - Total: 52,697.00 Ksq ft versus the four-analyst average estimate of 52,838.92 Ksq ft.
- Total Auto-Zone Store: 7,774 versus 7,778 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Number of stores - Domestic: 6,709 versus 6,711 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Same store sales- International: 17.1% compared to the 14.2% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Sales per average square foot: $81 thousand versus the three-analyst average estimate of $81.78 thousand.
- Total Same Store Sales: 5.2% compared to the 6.1% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Square footage per store: 6.78 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of 6.8 million.
- Sales per average store: $552 thousand versus $556.47 thousand estimated by three analysts on average.
- Number of stores - Opened-Brazil: 3 compared to the 8 average estimate based on three analysts.
- Net Sales- Domestic Commercial sales: $1.15 billion compared to the $1.2 billion average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +9.8% year over year.
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Shares of AutoZone have returned +4.3% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -1.3% 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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