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O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-03

Overview · O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.

O'Reilly Automotive, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer and supplier of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment, and accessories in the United States and Mexico. The company provides new and remanufactured automotive hard parts and maintenance items, such as alternators, batteries, brake system components, belts, chassis parts, driveline parts, engine parts, fuel pumps, hose…

SectorConsumer Cyclical
IndustrySpecialty Retail
Typeequity
ExchangeNASDAQ
Employees86,774
www.oreillyauto.com

Management team

  • Mr. Robert Allen Dumas · Senior Vice President of Eastern Store Operations & SalesFind on LinkedIn
  • Ms. Shari Lynne Reaves · Senior Vice President of Human Resources & TrainingFind on LinkedIn
  • Ms. Tamara F. Conn · Senior VP of Legal & General CounselFind on LinkedIn
  • Mr. Scott Richard Ross · Executive VP & CIOFind on LinkedIn

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Moneyta sentiment

Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.

Mixedhigh confidence
−2 · strongly unfavorable0 · balanced+2 · strongly favorable

−0.0 on a −2 to +2 scale.

What builds the score

Fundamentals
+0.3
Filings and risk
+0.0
Ownership and flow
+0.5
Insider activity
−1.0

Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.

News tonecontext · not scored+0.3 observed
2 favorable3 neutral1 unfavorableacross 3 outlets

Editor's note

Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.

GoodwinAI editor

The evidence balance is Mixed ( -0.0 of a possible +2; was -0.0 before debate) with high confidence. Reported revenue for the three months ended 30 June 2026 (Q2 2026 = fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-03) was $4,892,013,000, up from $4,560,539,000 in the prior quarter (Q1 2026 = fiscal quarter ended 2026-05-04) and up from $4,525,058,000 in the comparable period a year earlier (Q2 2025 = fiscal quarter ended 2025-08-04). Gross profit rose to $2,516,741,000 in Q2 2026 from $2,347,211,000 in Q1 2026, while operating income increased to $985,746,000 from $841,608,000.

Share count has declined: weighted‑average diluted shares fell from 842,516,000 in Q1 2026 to 828,875,000 in Q2 2026, and point‑in‑time entity common shares outstanding moved from 838,487,034 on 23 February 2026 to 808,960,792 as of 3 August 2026; reported cash paid for repurchase of common stock in Q1 2026 was $922,947,000. Long‑term noncurrent debt rose across the reported dates to $7,014,543,000 as of 30 June 2026, and stockholders’ equity remained negative, shifting from -$763,352,000 as of 31 December 2025 to -$1,835,725,000 as of 30 June 2026. Valuation and multiples in the packet show price‑to‑FCF (TTM) at 32.74, EV/EBITDA (TTM) at 17.76, P/E (TTM) at 27.09, trailing twelve‑month FCF at $2,202,106,000 (FCF per share $2.6567), and an implied FCF growth rate of 21.43% using the stated discount/terminal assumptions.

How this note was made

every stage ran before the note was written
Analystsread the evidence
Debatebull ⇄ bear ×2
Chairrules on every claim
Riskstress-tests the read
Sentimentweighs what survived
Editorwrites the note

Analyst desk

Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.

MercerAI fundamentals analyst
+0.0

Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.

Reported revenue for the 3 months ended 30 June 2026 (fiscal Q2 2026, 2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30) was $4,892,013,000, up from $4,560,539,000 in the prior quarter (fiscal Q1 2026, 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) and up from $4,525,058,000 for the 3 months ended 30 June 2025 (fiscal Q2 2025, 2025-04-01 to 2025-06-30).

XBRL companyfacts · 0000898173-26-000045

Gross profit rose to $2,516,741,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30) from $2,347,211,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31), and operating income increased to $985,746,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 from $841,608,000 in fiscal Q1 2026.

XBRL companyfacts · 0000898173-26-000045
OakesAI filings and risk analyst
+0.0

Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.

Which filings the desk reads

The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.

A Form 4 with the 4 filed 1 September 2026 was filed on 2026-09-01 (parse_status: pending).

4 filed 2026-09-01

The only filing provided in the evidence set is the Form 4 (the 4 filed 1 September 2026); no 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K, or other periodic report is present in the supplied evidence for review.

4 filed 2026-09-01
NashAI market signals analyst
no data on file

Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.

No computed signal history for this symbol yet — signals need roughly 70 trading days of price history.

EllisAI ownership and flow analyst
+0.0

Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.

As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, the ETF iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) held O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. with a weight of 0.12% of the fund.

ETF constituents · market data

A Form 4 insider filing for the company was filed on 2026-09-01; the record shows the 4 filed 1 September 2026, parse_status marked 'pending', and no primary_doc_url provided in the evidence.

Form 4 × 1 (90d window not enforced here)
YatesAI news analyst
+0.0

Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.

A finance.yahoo.com earnings-season recap piece places O'Reilly in a comparison of Q2 results across auto parts retailer stocks (an earnings/sector roundup rather than a single-company deep dive).

News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-02

GuruFocus published a DCF-based valuation headline stating ORLY is 'Fairly Valued by DCF at $88'.

News · gurufocus.com · 2026-09-02
TalbotAI insider activity analyst
−1.0

Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.

HENDRICKSON THOMAS (Director) sold 1000 shares for a reported value of "$88k" on 2026-08-28; the Form 4/5 filing shows no trading plan flag for this transaction.

Form 4 · HENDRICKSON THOMAS (Director) · $88k sold · 2026-08-28

No open-market officer purchases are reported in the parsed filings for the reviewed window (total bought "$0", distinct_buyers 0), and net insider activity in the window is reported as -1000 shares.

Form 4 · HENDRICKSON THOMAS (Director) · $88k sold · 2026-08-28
ArcherAI valuation analyst
+0.0

Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.

Using the stated discount and terminal assumptions, today's price implies a free cash flow (FCF) growth rate of 21.43% (implied_growth = 0.2143).

Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD close

Trailing twelve‑month free cash flow (FCF) was $2,202,106,000 and FCF per share was $2.6567, as reported for the trailing twelve months.

Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD close

Debate and risk review

A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.

Debate1 round · 6 claims contested

A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.

The bull case

The evidence set includes multiple company-specific signals that jointly support a favorable read. Revenue, gross profit, and operating income all increased quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year in fiscal Q2 2026 (fundamentals-0, fundamentals-1), while reported free cash flow on a trailing twelve‑month basis is sizable (valuation-1). Management and the company have materially reduced share count through repurchases across the reported windows (fundamentals-2, fundamentals-3), which raises per-share cash flow and earnings metrics for remaining holders. Institutional participation and sell‑side coverage tilt positive: ORLY is held by a core S&P 500 ETF (ownership-0) and the street consensus in the supplied context is heavily weighted to Buy (third-party street consensus). These points collectively support an operational and capital-allocation narrative that can be read favorably when evaluating the company’s historical results and cash generation.

The bear case

Chair's verdict, claim by claim

A finance.yahoo.com earnings-season recap piece places O'Reilly in a comparison of Q2 results across auto parts retailer stocks (an earnings/sector roundup rather than a single-company deep dive).The Yahoo Finance earnings-season recap that includes O'Reilly in a sector comparison is present in the supplied news evidence.upheld
GuruFocus published a DCF-based valuation headline stating ORLY is 'Fairly Valued by DCF at $88'.The GuruFocus headline stating a DCF-based 'Fairly Valued' verdict at $88 is included in the provided news items.upheld
A Form 4 with the 4 filed 1 September 2026 was filed on 2026-09-01 (parse_status: pending).A Form 4 filed on 2026-09-01 is present in the evidence and is noted as such.upheld
Risk review

Fragility · computed, not argued

diversified0.29

24 surviving claims rest on 14 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 25% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.

The surviving set rests on a moderate pool of source documents but a meaningful share of the desk’s retained claims trace back to a small number of contributors — that concentration raises sensitivity to those individuals’ inputs. The very high debate-survival rate suggests the desk applied limited internal pushback, so these conclusions are reliable for describing the reviewed evidence but fragile to fresh or corrective filings and to alternative analyst interpretations.

Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers

Context

Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.

The street's viewAnalyst consensus · third-party · 2026-09-02
Buy Hold Sell Target

Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.

What this was built from

Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here — no outside knowledge, no browsing — and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.

12 filings· 1 cited

SEC XBRL filings

Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.

Read by Mercer+0.3 to the score

1 document

SEC filing documents

The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.

Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score

2 holdings records

Fund holdings

Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.

Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score

8 headlines· 2 cited

News coverage

Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.

Read by Yatesnothing survived

1 filing

Insider filings

Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.

Read by Talbot−1.0 to the score

1 computation

Valuation inputs

TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.

Read by Archercontext only

1 record· 0 cited

Company profile

Sector, industry and company details.

1 record· 0 cited

Analyst consensus

Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.

Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.

Social sentiment

Crowd chatter as an evidence stream.

Coming soon

Aggregated tone from public social feeds will join the desk as its own evidence stream — read by its own analyst, contested in the same debate, and shown with the same sourcing as every other claim. Until it earns that bar, nothing renders here.

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Written by AI, checked against sources

The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.

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