Lithia Motors (LAD) reported first-quarter 2024 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $6.11, which declined from the prior-year quarter’s $8.44 and missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $7.85.Total revenues jumped 23% year over year to $8.56 billion. The top line outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $8.5 billion.Segmental PerformanceNew vehicle retail revenues increased 22.4% year over year to $4 billion, missing our estimate of $4.3 billion due to a lower-than-expected number of units sold and average ...

Ryan Sigdahl Operator Rajat Gupta Bryan DeBoer Our next question comes from Ron Josey with Citi. Please proceed with your question. Bryan DeBoer Adjusting for these items, we ended the quarter with net leverage of approximately 2.25 times, comfortably below our target of 3x and our banking covenant requirement of 5.7 times. We continue to maintain our financial discipline even with planned growth and target leverage below 3 times. During the quarter, we generated free cash flows of $218 million. We define f ...

For the quarter ended March 2024, Lithia Motors (LAD) reported revenue of $8.56 billion, up 22.7% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $6.11, compared to $8.44 in the year-ago quarter.The reported revenue represents a surprise of +0.50% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $8.51 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $7.85, the EPS surprise was -22.17%.While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine thei ...

Lithia & Driveway (LAD) Reports Record First Quarter Revenue of $8.6 billion, 23% Increase ________________________________________________ Announces Dividend of $0.53 per Share for First Quarter Medford, Oregon, April 24, 2024 - Lithia & Driveway (NYSE: LAD) today reported the highest first quarter revenue in company history. Corporate Development During the first quarter, LAD completed the acquisition of Pendragon PLC's Fleet Management and UK Motor Divisions in the United Kingdom and grew in the North Ce ...

Lithia Motors (LAD) came out with quarterly earnings of $6.11 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $7.85 per share. This compares to earnings of $8.44 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -22.17%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this auto dealership chain would post earnings of $8.11 per share when it actually produced earnings of $8.24, delivering a surprise of 1.60%.Over the last four quarters, t ...

Announces Dividend of $0.53 per Share for First Quarter MEDFORD, Ore., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lithia & Driveway (NYSE: LAD) today reported the highest first quarter revenue in company history. First quarter 2024 revenue increased 23% to $8.6 billion from $7.0 billion in the first quarter of 2023. First quarter 2024 net income attributable to LAD per diluted share was $5.89, a 29% decrease from $8.30 per diluted share reported in the first quarter of 2023. Adjusted first quarter 2024 net income attri ...

Lithia Motors (LAD) is expected to deliver a year-over-year decline in earnings on higher revenues when it reports results for the quarter ended March 2024. This widely-known consensus outlook gives a good sense of the company's earnings picture, but how the actual results compare to these estimates is a powerful factor that could impact its near-term stock price.The earnings report, which is expected to be released on April 24, 2024, might help the stock move higher if these key numbers are better than exp ...

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549 FORM 10-K ☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the Fiscal Year Ended: December 31, 2023 OR ☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Commission File Number: 001-14733 Lithia Motors, Inc. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Oregon 93-0572810 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Emplo ...

Hi Joe. Hi. In the slides, it looks like you removed the time frame from your 2025 targets. How should we be thinking about the time frame here now? And what changed in your thinking? I would start with it, obviously, we're less than a year out from the start of '25. So, we would be inferring specific guidance and it's not something - it's not typical practices of our company to provide guidance. But maybe more importantly than that, the goals that we've established for ourselves, are to build an ecosystem ...

Investor Presentation FEBRUARY 2024 NYSE: LADDisclosure 2 Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this presentation, and at times made by our officers and representatives, constitute forwardlooking statements within the meaning of the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Generally, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "project", "outlook", "target", "may", "will", "would", "should", "seek", "expect", "plan", "intend", "forecast", ...