Genuine Parts Company
$132.57+12.9%YTD+7.7%1Y+4.0%
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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 $GPC.
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
+2.7%YTD
+9.2%1Y
Fundamentals & catalyst
Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.
Key ratios
P/E
301.3How 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
8.7%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
4.4%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
3.0%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
0.7Same 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
1.3%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
36.2%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
1.5Total 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 2026Apr 21, 2026$1.77$1.75+1.1%
Q4 2025Feb 17, 2026$1.55$1.82-14.8%
Q3 2025Oct 21, 2025$1.98$2.02-2.0%
Q2 2025Jul 22, 2025$2.10$2.06+1.9%
Next earningsTue, Jul 21·consensus EPS $2.10
Quarterly trend
QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$6.3B+6.8%37.3%4.6%$1.37$-33.6M
Q4 FY25$6.0B+4.1%32.1%0.8%$-4.39$260.7M
Q3 FY25$6.3B+4.9%37.4%5.3%$1.63$240.0M
Q2 FY25$6.2B+3.4%37.7%6.9%$1.83$81.0M
Forward consensus
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$25.5B$25.3B – $25.8B$7.71$7.60 – $7.877
FY27$26.4B$26.1B – $26.9B$8.40$8.05 – $8.987
FY28$27.6B$27.6B – $27.6B$9.28$9.06 – $9.504
FY29$29.1B$28.8B – $29.5B$10.95$10.81 – $11.163
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.3.0×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.69%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.+27.5%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.+10.1%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.
Float & profile
FloatMid float · 137.2M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today3.7% 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.β0.645-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.
Insider activity
Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.
Recent news
Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.
Genuine Parts (GPC) Moves 12.9% Higher: Will This Strength Last?The Safest Dividend Plays of 2026: 5 High-Yield, Low-PE Dividend AristocratsGenuine Parts Company to Report Second Quarter 2026 Results on July 21, 20265 High-Yielding Dividend Kings Retirees and Boomers Can Buy Today and Safely Hold ForeverEON Provides Orovada Update
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