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Signal Ledger valuation · ORLY

O'Reilly Automotive Inc

What the shares are worth today on our research (cited consensus, company plans and peers, since management sets no usable targets): every line valued at the end of FY2030, net debt rolled forward, then discounted back to Jun 30, 2026.

Signal Ledger valuation$50.88−45% vs $92.00
Business value at FY2030
$54B
FY2030 revenue
$23B
FY2030 EPS · P/E
$4.43 · 16×
Discount rate (WACC · equity)
7.48% · 7.87%

How this is built. No dated long-term management sales or EBIT target; use cited FactSet FY2030 consensus sales and operating margin with current company guidance. Each input below shows its basis: consensus, company plan, peer or rule.

Researched Oct 23, 2026 from SEC filing 0000898173-26-000045 · price $92.00 at research time · Valuation methodology

Latest quarter in this research: Q2 2026

Reported Jul 29, 2026 for the quarter to Jun 30, 2026 (company release ↗). This valuation already reflects these results (researched Oct 23, 2026).

Revenue$4.89B
Operating income$0.99B20.2% margin
Net income$0.72B
Diluted EPS$0.86
SegmentRevenuevs a year agoOperating incomeMargin
Automotive aftermarket parts$4.89B+8%$0.99B20.2%
  • Comparable-store sales+6.0%; total sales+8.1%.
  • Sales guidance 18.9-19.2B and EBIT margin 19.3-19.8%; capex 1.3-1.4B.
  • All per-share data reflect the 2025 15-for-1 split; actual August 3 shares 808.960792M control, not annual average 855.9M.

What each business is worth

BusinessModelFY2030 revenueValue todayPer share2030 multipleValue from beyond FY2030
Automotive aftermarket partsMargin$23B$48B$59.2211.7× EBIT66%
All businesses$23B$48B$59.22

From 2030 back to today

  1. Enterprise value at end of FY2030$54B
  2. Plus net cash at FY2030$3.4B
  3. Equity value at FY2030$57B
  4. ÷ (1 + 7.87%)^4.5 years at the cost of equity$41B
  5. + dividends paid on the way, discounted$0B

This reconciliation checks the published Signal Ledger valuation against the net-debt path. The difference is 1.1%, inside our 5% tolerance.

From businesses to one share

  1. All businesses, valued today$48B
  2. − borrowings$7B
  3. − finance leases$0B
  4. + cash and short-term investments$0.3B
  5. ÷ diluted shares0.809B
  6. Signal Ledger valuation$50.88

Year by year to FY2030

Fiscal yearRevenueEBITDACapexFree cash flowNet debt at year end
FY2026$19B$4.3B$1.4B$2.1B$5.8B
FY2027$20B$4.5B$1.4B$2.2B$3.8B
FY2028$21B$4.7B$1.5B$2.3B$1.6B
FY2029$22B$5B$1.6B$2.5B$0.8B cash
FY2030$23B$5.3B$1.6B$2.6B$3.4B cash

What must be true

  • Automotive aftermarket parts grows revenue from $19.1B in FY2026 to $23.1B in FY2030 (1.2×).
  • Automotive aftermarket parts holds its EBIT margin at 19.9%.
  • The company spends $7.5B of capital expenditure through FY2030.
  • Net debt peaks at $6.8B in FY2025 and stays financeable.

What the price implies

To reach $92.00 at our discount rate, O'Reilly Automotive Inc would need about $40.6B of FY2030 sales (growth of about 20.8% a year from FY2026) with 19.9% GAAP EBIT margin — versus $23.1B and 19.9% GAAP EBIT margin in our research.

At the research price of $92.00 (2026-10-23), the price asks more than our assumptions overall. These are operating requirements at that price, not additional valuations or forecasts.

If sales and margins changed together

Each row matches the same research price at our unchanged discount rate, by scaling every operating line's margin by one common factor. Sales cover margin and capacity lines only; other valuation lines stay fixed. Margins are revenue-weighted within each metric, before separately modeled corporate costs and eliminations. The conclusion uses the row at our research margins when sales alone can match the price, otherwise the solved row needing the least sales growth; this is a trade-off between growth and profitability, not a forecast.

FY2030 sales factorFY2030 salesFY2026–30 CAGRRequired FY2030 marginRequirement
1.50×$34.7B16.1%
22.2% GAAP EBIT
Within margin guardrails
1.76×At research margins$40.6B20.8%
19.9% GAAP EBIT
Within margin guardrails
2.00×$46.2B24.8%
18.2% GAAP EBIT
Within margin guardrails
3.00×$69.3B38.1%
14.1% GAAP EBIT
Within margin guardrails

CAGR uses $19.1B of same-scope FY2026 sales from the published model or its sourced research base, over four fiscal years. “Within margin guardrails” checks numeric limits only, not commercial plausibility. Each line and year must stay at or below 50.0% GAAP EBIT and 100% EBITDA, or our research margin where that is higher; capacity EBIT uses the engine's equipment depreciation. Unsolved margins are not extrapolated.

Implied discount rate
5.3%

The WACC that makes model value equal the price, shifting WACC and cost of equity by the same amount. Model: 7.5% WACC · 7.9% cost of equity.

All-business FY2030 sales factor
1.76×

FY2030 revenue would need to reach $40.6B (model: $23.1B) across the margin and capacity businesses. FY1 stays fixed; the sales change ramps to FY2030 and stays at that factor thereafter.

If only one business changed

Businesses with margin or capacity revenue paths, ordered by value today. Revenue and margin are separate alternatives; these requirements are not added together.

Automotive aftermarket parts

Revenue alone
FY2030 revenue would need to reach $39.5B (model: $23.1B).
Margin alone

FY2030 EBIT margin would need to reach 29.9% (model: 19.9%).

Mechanical requirements, not forecasts. The separate sales-only and single-business factors are searched from 0.1× to 6×; an unsolved comparison means this business alone cannot get there within those bounds. Single-business revenue changes apply from FY2 onward; margin changes scale the full EBIT or EBITDA margin path. Mixed groups show revenue-weighted EBIT and EBITDA margins separately. Requirements above 100% are not feasible margins. Joint rows instead search non-negative uniform margin factors only up to the EBIT/EBITDA guardrails; the entire margin path scales, including post-FY2030 convergence. Sales and margins change together only in that table. The rate search runs from the largest terminal growth rate plus 0.5 percentage points to 30% WACC.

The discount rate

Cost of equity
7.87%

r_f 3.87% (5-year average 10-year Treasury yield 3.87% (spot 5.13% on 2026-10-21)) + β 0.80 after Blume adjustment × 5%, rounded to 0.01% (1bp)

WACC
7.48%

methodology §4.5: market-weighted WACC, not rounded

10-year Treasury · model / spot
3.87% · 5.13%

The model uses the recorded 5-year average Treasury yield. The spot yield is shown for context.

Every input, with its source

Show 13 inputs · reported, guidance and rule-based
InputValueBasisWhy
Revenue FY2026Automotive aftermarket parts$19.1BGuidancetarget (methodology §4.2), growth 7.1% finanzen.net ↗
Revenue FY2030Automotive aftermarket parts$23.1BGuidancetarget (methodology §4.2), growth 4.9% finanzen.net ↗
EBIT margin FY2030Automotive aftermarket parts19.9%Consensuslinear path to 19.9% by FY2030 (management target) finanzen.net ↗
Maintenance capexAutomotive aftermarket parts7.1%GuidanceFY2026 capex 1.3-1.4B midpoint 1.35 / sales 18.9-19.2B midpoint 19.05. Includes new stores and distribution investment, held as reinvestment ratio rather than mislabeled maintenance-only. sec.gov ↗
Terminal growthAutomotive aftermarket parts2.0%Rulemethodology §4.2 terminal growth for a mature line Valuation methodology §4.2 · Read methodology ↗
WACCDiscount rates7.48%Rulemethodology §4.5: market-weighted WACC, not rounded FRED DGS10 2021-10-20..2026-10-21
Cost of equityDiscount rates7.87%Ruler_f 3.87% (5-year average 10-year Treasury yield 3.87% (spot 5.13% on 2026-10-21)) + β 0.80 after Blume adjustment × 5%, rounded to 0.01% (1bp) 60 monthly returns vs SPY, 2021-09..2026-09 (adjusted closes)
Tax rateDiscount rates22.5%GuidanceFY2026 effective income tax rate 22.5%. sec.gov ↗
Cash and short-term investmentsBalance sheet$0.3BReportedcash, cash equivalents and short-term investments us-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue · 0000898173-26-000045 (filed 2026-08-07)
BorrowingsBalance sheet$7.0BReportedborrowings due within a year plus long-term borrowings us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent · 0000898173-26-000045
Finance leasesBalance sheet$0.0BReportedno finance lease liability reported balance sheet 2026-06-30
SharesBalance sheet0.809BReportedshares outstanding as of 2026-08-03 cover page of 10-Q 0000898173-26-000045
Dividends per yearShareholders$0.0BReportedCompany pays no cash common dividends; repurchases do not reduce fixed point-in-time economic shares in the engine. × 0.809B shares sec.gov ↗

Research notes

  • share-count comparison: 0.828875B quarter 2026-04-01..2026-06-30 · 0000898173-26-000045; point-in-time denominator retained
  • cost of equity 7.87% (β 0.80 after Blume adjustment), WACC 7.5%

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