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Autozone $AZO

🫧 Edgar looked up AUTOZONE INC ($AZO). Last filing: 8-K (2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition), 2026-09-22. 9 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $18.9B (FY2025), total debt $8.8B. Experience: revenue up 2.4% on the year, up 6.7% a year over 4 years; operating margin 19.1%, down from 20.5%. Soundness: equity -17.6% of assets (liabilities exceed assets). Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $17.7B and $20.4B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $10B+ filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $16.6B to $21.7B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (17 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 19.1% against a 4.0% median; growth 2.4% against 4.2%.

AUTOZONE INC against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 4.0%19.1%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 4.2%2.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 26.3%-17.6%Gold tick: the median of 18–18 peers with $50M+ revenue in retail-auto & home supply stores

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2025-08-30
Revenue$18.9B
Revenue, on the year2.4%
Revenue, a year over the record6.7%
Operating margin19.1%
Operating margin, prior year20.5%
Net margin13.2%
Research and developmentnot filed separately
Total debt$8.8B
Equity of assets−17.6%
Return on equity—
Payout of profit—
Dividend per share—
Earnings per share$148.8
Book value per share$-197.99
Revenue per share$1098.21
Shares outstanding17,245,000
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 17 filers with $50M+ revenue in retail-auto & home supply stores.

Health watch · last 12 months

Events the company itself filed with the SEC, most serious first. Shown beside the figures; they do not change the range or its receipt.

Health Harbor

Autozone sails as: Sound ship

Sailing speed follows growth: 5.2% a year crosses the harbor in 64 seconds.

New shipno warning signs
Sound shipone warning sign
Weathered boattwo warning signs
Old boatthree warning signs
Rotting at the dockfour or more warning signs

Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.

Speed and cash · fiscal 2025

Cash Compass🌊 In between · no clear cash pattern yet
Inside viewTurns 16.5% of revenue into operating cash; revenue growing 5.2% a year over three years; no common dividend; liabilities exceed assets.
Outside viewAmong $10B+ companies: 57th percentile for cash, 55th for growth. cash growth

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Cash conversion (operating cash ÷ revenue)16.5%
Growth speed (3 years, per year)5.2%
Revenue swing (std-dev of yearly growth)3.4%
Cash flow (operating · investing · financing · free)$3.1B · −$1.4B · −$1.7B · $1.8B
Investment book (cash · short-term · long-term)$272M · $19M · $105M
Common dividendnone
Equity of assets-16.4%

Autozone is growing faster than its size class, with steadier revenue. SEC XBRL frames, the company’s own audited figures; quadrant split at the median of its size class.

Recent filings

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