AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Asbury Automotive (ABG)

Asbury Automotive reports Q1 2025 adjusted EPS of $6.82 on $4.1 billion revenue

Mixed Impact 3 of 5 earnings Written later

Asbury Automotive Group filed a transcript of its first-quarter 2025 earnings call, held April 29, 2025, reporting $4.1 billion in revenue, $724 million in gross profit and adjusted EPS of $6.82. Management cited a sales miss tied to weather and tariff-related uncertainty, and the filing gives no prior-year totals for comparison, so the direction of overall earnings cannot be confirmed from the filing alone.

Key points

  • Q1 2025 revenue of $4.1 billion, gross profit of $724 million, gross margin of 17.5%, and adjusted EBITDA of $240 million
  • Adjusted net income of $134 million and adjusted EPS of $6.82; adjusted operating margin of 5.8%
  • Used retail unit volume fell 8% year over year; same-store parts and service gross profit rose 5%
  • Pending $1.34 billion acquisition of Herb Chambers Automotive Group, with a stated plan to reduce leverage over 18 to 24 months

The filing

CompanyAsbury Automotive (ABG)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECApr 29, 2025, 6:00 PM ET
Accession number0001144980-25-000099

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:38 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on April 29, 2025.

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