Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.
$65.84-0.0%YTD+20.0%1Y+30.6%
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What it does
Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.
Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data
Where Specialty Retail sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $ANCTF.
Specialty Retail
Agentic commerce (AI agents ordering autonomously for consumers) is the medium-term structural disruptor — Amazon's $200B AI infrastructure commitment and AI shopping agent deployment shifts purchase decisions from browsing to autonomous fulfillment, bypassing traditional retail discovery. Near-term, consumer trade-down sustains value-format players while discretionary names face traffic headwinds.
Top industry ETF
$XRTSPDR S&P Retail ETF
+2.1%YTD
+14.5%1Y
Fundamentals & catalyst
Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.
Key ratios
P/E
27.0How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.ROIC
9.8%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.Op margin
6.0%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.FCF yield
5.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).P/S
0.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.ROE
20.0%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.Gross margin
18.9%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.D/E
1.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.Past earnings
QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Jun 22, 2026$0.73$0.54+36.4%
Q4 2025Mar 17, 2026$0.81$0.82-1.8%
Q3 2025Nov 24, 2025$0.78$0.74+4.7%
Q2 2025Sep 2, 2025$0.82$0.78+5.8%
Next earningsWed, Sep 2·consensus EPS $0.92
Quarterly trend
QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q4 FY26$19.7B+20.9%20.7%6.4%$0.94$1.1B
Q3 FY26$21.8B+4.3%19.4%5.3%$0.82$662.9M
Q2 FY26$17.7B+1.6%16.1%6.1%$0.78$742.9M
Q1 FY26$17.3B-5.1%19.1%6.6%$0.83$848.1M
Forward consensus
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$75.4B$74.6B – $76.8B$2.91$2.50 – $3.2716
FY27$84.1B$73.2B – $93.1B$3.27$2.82 – $3.683
FY28$83.5B$76.4B – $90.4B$3.63$3.12 – $4.0810
FY29$82.5B$73.6B – $90.4B$3.97$3.42 – $4.465
FY30$78.7B$70.2B – $86.2B$4.16$3.58 – $4.685
Setup & momentum
Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.
Right now
Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.2×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.99%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+13.6%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+18.8%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.
Float & profile
FloatHigh float · 741.8M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.0% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.655-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.ListedOTCListed on an over-the-counter market (PNK / OTCQB / OTCQX), not a major exchange. Lower disclosure requirements and thinner liquidity.
Recent news
Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (ATD:CA) Q4 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptAlimentation Couche-Tard Profit Up on Increased Same-Store SalesALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD ANNOUNCES ITS RESULTS FOR ITS FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2026Alimentation Couche-Tard: Monetizing Customer Time, Not Just Fuel SalesALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD TO RELEASE RESULTS FOR ITS FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2026 ON JUNE 22, 2026
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