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Auto Retailers' Ability to Pay Debt - What It Means [view article]
Hi Falcon,Regarding Buffett and Carmax, I'd encourage you to check out this article over at Fortune: money.cnn.com/2007/11/... Reply
Auto Retailers' Ability to Pay Debt - What It Means [view article]
when you see deep pocketed insiders scooping up tremendous numbers of shares as is the case with Auto Nation (with Bill Gates recently purchasing the equivalent of 5% of the company and Eddie lambert's stake now up to 44% after purchasing nearly 10 million shares during the past 6 months alone), I don't think it is that difficult to find the one or two golden eggs on this list above. The others might even be short candidates as they don't have a chance against the experience and money managing skills of Lambert, Jackson, and Gates (and others) at Auto Nation, and Buffet helping out at Karmax. The implied guarantee that these individual investors have given the company by putting their money where their ideas are is powerful, indeed. ReplyAuto Retailers' Ability to Pay Debt - What It Means [view article]
The Lithia stores in my market (Northern NV) are taking steps to reduce expenses--combining/el... district level supervision (instead of separate dealership managers, one 'area manager' will now supervise 5 stores), relocating dealerships in poor locations (a store with poor access and low traffic counts is moving to a street with the highest surface traffic counts in town, at cheaper rent) and the like.How long that takes to show up in interest coverage remains to be seen. But at least management isn't asleep at the switch. Reply
Auto Retailers' Ability to Pay Debt - What It Means [view article]
Good aproach, but still used car dealers sound very risky. For instance, who ever have a large proportion of SUB's and large pick-ups (gas gustlers) are in great disadvantage because they will not sell unless a real big discount is offerred... ReplyAuto Retailers' Ability to Pay Debt - What It Means [view article]
The problem with used auto dealers is that every week the cars are worth less and a slow market compounds this. The wholesale auction prices fall an the ripple efffect is started ReplyEditors
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Is this a buy or a sell? ReplyCarMax's Earnings: Seven Auto Retailers, Seven Comparison Metrics [view article]
That's an excellent analysis. Great job! ReplyThe Internet's Changing the Auto Retail Business For the Better [view article]
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