Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Aug 9, 2026

Asbury Automotive Group Inc (ABG)

A forensic read on Asbury Automotive Group Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

B · Sound & dependable

Forensic grade

Grey Zone

Financial health

1.9

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

7.6

P / E (ttm)

12.6%

ROE

$3.8B

Market cap

4.7%

Revenue growth

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Asbury Automotive Group Inc earns a B (Sound & dependable) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 1.9, placing it in the Grey zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).

What the filings flag

+11.7%

FY2024→FY2025

Accruals ratio (% of NOA). Net operating assets grew +11.7% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building faster than is comfortable — part of profit is sitting in the balance sheet rather than turning to cash. The build is led by payables paid down 10% against +5% in cost of sales. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 4% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.

7.5%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 7.5% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 14% — slightly below its ~9% cost of capital — reinvestment is roughly a wash.

$16M

FY2023–FY2024

Goodwill impairments. Took $16M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2023 ($15M), FY2024 ($1M)) — about 2% of net income over the span. Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$18.00B

Revenue Growth YoY+4.7%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+5.3%

Net Margin2.7%

Return on Equity12.6%

Debt / Equity0.89x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 9, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.