If you are wondering whether Advance Auto Parts is priced attractively today, it helps to start with how the market has treated the stock recently and how that lines up with its fundamentals.
The share price closed at US$49.34 most recently, with returns of 19.4% over the past week, 19.6% over the past month, 26.9% year to date and 3.5% over the last year. However, the 3 year and 5 year returns of 65.3% and 64.0% declines show a very different longer term picture.
Recent coverage around Advance Auto Parts has focused on its role in the US auto parts retail market and how investors are reassessing companies in this sector, as interest in repair and maintenance related businesses has stayed in focus. That backdrop provides important…
