Key Takeaways CVNA posted 46% retail sales growth and recorded $488M adjusted EBITDA with 11.5% margins last quarter. ABG's Clicklane digital platform sold 51K+ units in 2024, up 13% year over year, supporting its online push. ABG faces SG&A pressure and $250M annual capex, which weigh on margins and near-term free cash flow.Carvana Inc. (CVNA) and Asbury Automotive (ABG) both sell cars, but they take different approaches. Carvana has carved out a name for itself as a digital disruptor, offering a fully o ...

The S&P 500 is making a slow rebound from its tariff-induced plunge a few weeks ago, and it's now down 6% year to date.Although investors use the index as a proxy for how the overall market is doing, it's important to keep in mind that the S&P 500 is a weighted-average index whose largest components account for a large portion of its performance. That means the market's largest U.S. companies, like Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia, will have an outsized impact on the whole.Any company that could be negatively a ...