Advance Auto Parts Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

AAP Stock  USD 40.79  2.10  5.43%   
Considering the 90-day investment horizon and your complete indifference towards market risk, our recommendation regarding Advance Auto Parts is 'Strong Buy'. A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Advance Auto Parts given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Advance Auto. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Advance Auto Parts, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

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Strong Buy

Market Performance

Very WeakDetails

Volatility

Very steadyDetails

Hype Condition

Over hypedDetails

Current Valuation

UndervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

Below AverageDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Almost mirrors the marketDetails

Investor Sentiment

InterestedDetails

Analyst Consensus

BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

HealthyDetails

Financial Leverage

Not RatedDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Possible ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon Advance Auto Parts has a Risk Adjusted Performance of (0.07), Jensen Alpha of (0.42), Total Risk Alpha of (0.76) and Treynor Ratio of (0.29)
Advance Auto advice module can be used to check and cross-verify current investment recommendation provided by analysts analyzing the company's potential to grow using all of fundamental, technical, data market data available at the time. To make sure Advance Auto is not overpriced, please confirm all Advance Auto Parts fundamentals, including its price to sales, debt to equity, number of employees, as well as the relationship between the net income and short ratio . Given that Advance Auto Parts has a price to earning of 19.36 X, we suggest you to validate Advance Auto Parts market performance and probability of bankruptcy to ensure the company can sustain itself in the current economic cycle given your prevailing risk tolerance and investing horizon.

Advance Auto Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Advance Auto Parts generated a negative expected return over the last 90 days
Over 99.0% of the company shares are held by institutions such as insurance companies
On 25th of October 2024 Advance Auto paid $ 0.25 per share dividend to its current shareholders
Latest headline from bizjournals.com: Advance Auto Parts to cut more than 140 Texas jobs as part of mass store closures

Advance Auto Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Advance Auto's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Advance Auto's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Advance Auto daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Advance Auto Parts price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Advance Auto returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Advance Auto.
Mean Return
-0.29
Value At Risk
-4.63
Potential Upside
5.17
Standard Deviation
2.95
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Advance Auto historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Advance Stock Institutional Investors

The Advance Auto's institutional investors refer to entities that pool money to purchase Advance Auto's securities or originate loans. These institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds.
Shares
Ubs Group Ag2024-06-30
1.2 M
Royce & Associates, Lp2024-09-30
1.1 M
American Century Companies Inc2024-09-30
913.6 K
Geode Capital Management, Llc2024-09-30
830 K
Legion Partners Asset Management, Llc2024-09-30
822.8 K
Estuary Capital Management, Lp2024-09-30
787 K
Federated Hermes Inc2024-09-30
786.7 K
Dorsal Capital Management Llc2024-09-30
750 K
Goldman Sachs Group Inc2024-06-30
717.3 K
Blackrock Inc2024-06-30
7.4 M
Vanguard Group Inc2024-09-30
6.6 M
Note, although Advance Auto's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

Advance Auto Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change In Cash(477.9M)416.3M(233.6M)(332.1M)232.7M244.3M
Free Cash Flow395.3M701.9M822.6M296.3M45.0M42.7M
Other Non Cash Items19.1M54.2M964K13.6M4.1M3.9M
Capital Expenditures471.6M267.8M289.6M426.0M242.4M224.9M
Net Income486.9M493.0M616.1M501.9M29.7M28.2M
End Period Cash Flow418.7M835.0M601.4M269.3M503.5M291.1M
Change To Inventory(63.1M)(101.4M)(120.3M)(272.3M)44.8M47.1M
Depreciation238.4M250.1M259.9M283.8M306.5M210.1M
Dividends Paid17.2M56.3M160.9M336.2M209.3M219.8M
Change Receivables(21.5M)(62.8M)(59.0M)(32.7M)(37.5M)(39.4M)
Net Borrowings32.0M(369.4M)244.5M332.5M382.4M401.5M
Change To Netincome79.7M107.6M132.2M70.9M81.5M60.7M
Investments(462.9M)(266.9M)(287.3M)(424.4M)(277.8M)(291.7M)

Advance Auto Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Advance Auto or Specialty Retail sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Advance Auto's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Advance stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
-0.42
β
Beta against Dow Jones1.02
σ
Overall volatility
2.94
Ir
Information ratio -0.14

Advance Auto Volatility Alert

Advance Auto Parts exhibits very low volatility with skewness of 0.13 and kurtosis of 0.46. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Advance Auto's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Advance Auto's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

Advance Auto Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Advance Auto's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Advance Auto's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Advance Auto and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Advance Auto or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Advance Auto's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Advance Auto by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
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 Worse Than Average Compare Advance Auto to competition
FundamentalsAdvance AutoPeer Average
Return On Equity-0.0046-0.31
Return On Asset0.0025-0.14
Profit Margin(0) %(1.27) %
Operating Margin0.03 %(5.51) %
Current Valuation5.78 B16.62 B
Shares Outstanding59.73 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders1.09 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions98.91 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted10.58 M4.71 M
Price To Earning19.36 X28.72 X
Price To Book0.94 X9.51 X
Price To Sales0.22 X11.42 X
Revenue11.29 B9.43 B
Gross Profit4.96 B27.38 B
EBITDA426.36 M3.9 B
Net Income29.73 M570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents269.28 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share3.25 X5.01 X
Total Debt4 B5.32 B
Debt To Equity1.50 %48.70 %
Current Ratio1.13 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share42.34 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations287.38 M971.22 M
Short Ratio3.77 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share0.79 X3.12 X
Price To Earnings To Growth0.54 X4.89 X
Target Price44.0
Number Of Employees40 K18.84 K
Beta1.19-0.15
Market Capitalization2.44 B19.03 B
Total Asset12.28 B29.47 B
Retained Earnings4.56 B9.33 B
Working Capital1.07 B1.48 B
Note: Acquisition by Carla Bailo of tradable shares of Advance Auto at 36.74 subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]

Advance Auto Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Advance . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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