Sonic Automotive, Inc. (SAH)
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About Sonic Automotive, Inc.
Sonic Automotive, Inc. operates as an automotive retailer in the United States. It operates in two segments, Franchised Dealerships and EchoPark. The Franchised Dealerships segment is involved in the sale of new and used cars and light trucks, and replacement parts; provision of vehicle maintenance, manufacturer warranty repair, and paint and collision repair services; and arrangement of extended warranties, service contracts, financing, insurance, and other aftermarket products for its guests. The EchoPark segment sells used cars and light trucks; and arranges finance and insurance product sales for its guests in pre-owned vehicle specialty retail locations. As of December 31, 2021, the company operated 140 new vehicle franchises representing 28 brands of cars and light trucks; 17 collision repair centers in 17 states; and 46 EchoPark stores in 16 states, including 11 Northwest Motorsport pre-owned vehicle stores. Sonic Automotive, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Insider Activity of Sonic Automotive, Inc.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Sonic Automotive, Inc. have bought $0 and sold $13.42M worth of Sonic Automotive, Inc. stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Sonic Automotive, Inc. have bought $159,024 and sold $11.21M worth of stock each year.
There was no buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months.
The last purchase of 3,793 shares for transaction amount of $155,703 was made by Rusnak Paul P. () on 2022‑04‑06.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Sonic Automotive, Inc.
| 2024-06-12 | Sale | DYKE JEFF | President | 16,734 0.0523% | $60.00 | $1M | -4.61% | |
| 2024-06-12 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 2,480 0.0077% | $60.00 | $148,812 | -4.61% | |
| 2024-05-28 | Sale | DYKE JEFF | President | 15,000 0.0446% | $56.76 | $851,426 | +0.59% | |
| 2024-05-15 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 16,646 0.0486% | $59.36 | $988,105 | -4.81% | |
| 2024-05-14 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 41,770 0.1226% | $59.27 | $2.48M | -4.32% | |
| 2024-05-13 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 20,653 0.0617% | $59.26 | $1.22M | -2.53% | |
| 2024-05-10 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 1,747 0.0052% | $58.50 | $102,208 | -1.93% | |
| 2024-05-09 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 67,703 0.1983% | $58.43 | $3.96M | -2.53% | |
| 2024-05-07 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 21 <0.0001% | $58.49 | $1,228 | -0.26% | |
| 2024-04-29 | Sale | SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 3,861 0.0115% | $61.43 | $237,196 | -5.10% | |
| 2023-09-14 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 34,186 0.0963% | $54.01 | $1.85M | -2.85% | |
| 2023-09-06 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 3,800 0.011% | $54.00 | $205,200 | -0.02% | |
| 2023-08-31 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 100 0.0003% | $54.06 | $5,406 | -1.57% | |
| 2023-08-30 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 1,509 0.0043% | $54.00 | $81,486 | -2.22% | |
| 2023-07-19 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 5,473 0.0156% | $54.05 | $295,843 | -0.99% | |
| 2023-04-18 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 3,500 0.0097% | $54.07 | $189,259 | -4.16% | |
| 2023-04-17 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 7,589 0.0211% | $54.00 | $409,814 | -3.36% | |
| 2023-04-14 | Sale | Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 11,336 0.031% | $54.02 | $612,359 | -5.05% | |
| 2023-04-10 | Sale | DYKE JEFF | President | 86,596 0.2364% | $50.80 | $4.4M | +1.18% | |
| 2023-02-17 | Sale | DYKE JEFF | President | 115,824 0.3026% | $57.22 | $6.63M | -14.03% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| DYKE JEFF | President | 817753 2.4027% | $53.68 | 8 | 23 | +212.63% |
| SMITH DAVID BRUTON | Chairman and CEO | 583054 1.3806% | $53.68 | 3 | 23 | +57.75% |
| Byrd Heath | EVP and CFO | 193445 0.4976% | $53.68 | 0 | 22 | |
| SMITH O BRUTON | Executive Chairman | 9858125 29.0915% | $53.68 | 10 | 10 | +8.37% |
| SMITH BRYAN SCOTT | 10 percent owner | 9858125 29.0915% | $53.68 | 4 | 21 | +43.13% |
| SONIC FINANCIAL CORP | 10 percent owner | 9858125 29.0915% | $53.68 | 1 | 0 | |
| Rusnak Paul P. | 5000000 14.7551% | $53.68 | 8 | 0 | +219.05% | |
| COSPER DAVID P | Vice Chairman and CFO | 188921 0.5575% | $53.68 | 2 | 5 | +55.84% |
| HELLER H ROBERT | director | 47585 0.1404% | $53.68 | 0 | 4 | |
| BELK WILLIAM I | director | 44972 0.1327% | $53.68 | 0 | 1 | |
| BROOKS WILLIAM R | director | 39488 0.1165% | $53.68 | 1 | 2 | +57.75% |
| SMITH MARCUS G | 36382 0.1074% | $53.68 | 4 | 0 | +244.75% | |
| DOOLAN VICTOR H | director | 32088 0.0947% | $53.68 | 0 | 5 | |
| TAYLOR R EUGENE | director | 12242 0.0361% | $53.68 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| RACHOR JEFFREY C | director | 5393 0.0159% | $53.68 | 0 | 4 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| BlackRock | $137.29M | 7.11 | 2.41M | -3.12% | -$4.42M | <0.01 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $100.47M | 5.21 | 1.76M | -5.2% | -$5.51M | 0.03 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $90.64M | 4.7 | 1.59M | +0.22% | +$200,542.68 | <0.01 | |
| Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management | $53.75M | 2.79 | 944,046 | +5.88% | +$2.99M | 0.18 | |
| State Street | $40.99M | 2.11 | 716,000 | +0.63% | +$257,245.50 | <0.01 | |
| Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. | $35.9M | 1.86 | 630,450 | +12.6% | +$4.02M | 0.29 | |
| Invesco | $34.62M | 1.79 | 607,972 | +15.21% | +$4.57M | 0.01 | |
| Macquarie Group | $31.5M | 1.63 | 553,215 | -3.46% | -$1.13M | 0.03 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | $25.06M | 1.3 | 440,032 | -45.76% | -$21.14M | 0.02 | |
| Charles Schwab | $22.4M | 1.16 | 393,483 | +4.01% | +$863,438.16 | 0.01 | |
| Towle & Co. | $21.69M | 1.12 | 380,950 | +1,677.65% | +$20.47M | 2.55 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $18.52M | 0.96 | 325,200 | +2.18% | +$394,931.85 | <0.01 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $16.11M | 0.84 | 283,003 | -29.36% | -$6.7M | <0.01 | |
| Jacobs Levy Equity Management | $15.73M | 0.82 | 276,254 | -1.03% | -$164,158.02 | 0.07 | |
| Northern Trust | $15.59M | 0.81 | 273,752 | -10.22% | -$1.77M | <0.01 | |
| BNY Mellon | $14.73M | 0.76 | 258,633 | -3.26% | -$496,232.87 | <0.01 | |
| J. Goldman & Company | $14.43M | 0.75 | 253,465 | +70.28% | +$5.96M | 0.66 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $12.94M | 0.67 | 227,193 | -35.71% | -$7.18M | <0.01 | |
| Bank of America | $10.43M | 0.54 | 183,111 | +196.04% | +$6.9M | <0.01 | |
| Nuveen | $9.33M | 0.48 | 163,870 | -0.21% | -$19,644.88 | <0.01 | |
| Cubist Systematic Strategies | $8.25M | 0.43 | 144,907 | +372.66% | +$6.51M | 0.08 | |
| State of Wisconsin Investment Board | $8.11M | 0.42 | 142,385 | -10.8% | -$981,417.85 | 0.02 | |
| Verition Fund Management Llc | $7.1M | 0.37 | 124,615 | New | +$7.1M | 0.08 | |
| Ameriprise Financial | $6.98M | 0.36 | 122,635 | -10.21% | -$794,395.55 | <0.01 | |
| HITE Hedge Asset Management LLC | $6.6M | 0.34 | 115,941 | +56.16% | +$2.37M | 0.7 | |
| Two Sigma | $6.29M | 0.33 | 110,471 | +419.5% | +$5.08M | 0.01 | |
| LSV Asset Management | $5.99M | 0.31 | 105,200 | -8.6% | -$563,697.72 | 0.01 | |
| Tudor Investment Corp Et Al | $5.68M | 0.29 | 99,686 | +71.33% | +$2.36M | 0.07 | |
| Guggenheim Capital | $5.56M | 0.29 | 97,661 | +186.75% | +$3.62M | 0.04 | |
| Two Sigma Advisers LP | $4.42M | 0.23 | 77,700 | +131.94% | +$2.52M | 0.01 | |
| Brandywine Global Investment Management | $4.31M | 0.22 | 75,622 | +1.46% | +$62,007.67 | 0.03 | |
| Renaissance Technologies | $3.99M | 0.21 | 70,026 | -31.96% | -$1.87M | 0.01 | |
| Point72 Asset Management | $3.47M | 0.18 | 60,900 | New | +$3.47M | 0.01 | |
| Formula Growth Ltd | $3.29M | 0.17 | 57,800 | -4.93% | -$170,820.00 | 1.05 | |
| Public Employees Retirement System Of Ohio | $3.31M | 0.17 | 58,102 | -8.56% | -$309,810.55 | 0.01 | |
| Algert Global LLC | $3.26M | 0.17 | 57,274 | +34.86% | +$842,892.83 | 0.13 | |
| Cooper Creek Partners Management LLC | $3.01M | 0.16 | 52,804 | -79.5% | -$11.66M | 0.12 | |
| Engineers Gate Manager Lp | $2.9M | 0.15 | 50,946 | -12.21% | -$403,533.75 | 0.07 | |
| RhumbLine Advisers | $2.89M | 0.15 | 50,787 | -1.3% | -$38,206.41 | <0.01 | |
| Voloridge Investment Management, LLC | $2.52M | 0.13 | 44,327 | +29.96% | +$581,812.83 | 0.01 | |
| Fidelity Investments | $2.42M | 0.13 | 42,535 | -17.79% | -$523,961.90 | <0.0001 | |
| Legal & General | $2.41M | 0.13 | 42,368 | -2.76% | -$68,441.88 | <0.01 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $2.3M | 0.12 | 40,386 | -44.21% | -$1.82M | <0.01 | |
| Teewinot Capital Advisers LLC | $2.24M | 0.12 | 39,260 | 0% | +$0 | 0.23 | |
| Denali Advisors | $2.09M | 0.11 | 36,700 | +32.01% | +$506,766.00 | 0.62 | |
| Jump Financial Llc | $1.86M | 0.1 | 32,690 | +23.36% | +$352,458.68 | 0.02 | |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board | $1.76M | 0.09 | 30,842 | 0% | +$0 | 0.01 | |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | $1.64M | 0.09 | 28,749 | -7.96% | -$141,669.48 | <0.01 | |
| Wolverine Asset Management, LLC | $1.59M | 0.08 | 27,975 | 0% | +$0 | 0.14 | |
| Swiss National Bank | $1.59M | 0.08 | 28,000 | -6.67% | -$113,880.00 | <0.01 |