AutoZone
Retailer and distributor of auto parts
Commercial Driver
About the job
- The candidate must be at least 18 years old.
- The candidate must possess a valid driver's license and comply with driver safety requirements.
- The candidate must have basic knowledge of automotive parts.
- The candidate must be able to lift, load, and deliver merchandise.
- The candidate must be available for a full-time flexible schedule, including mornings, nights, weekends, and overtime as needed.
- Deliver customer service by engaging with commercial customers and do-it-yourself shoppers, providing clear automotive advice, and offering installation services.
- Work closely with store personnel and commercial accounts to support team collaboration and customer relationships.
- Maintain efficient delivery operations while meeting time and accuracy goals and following company policies.
- Drive company-provided vehicles and make safe, timely deliveries of automotive parts to commercial customers.
- Load and unload parts accurately according to route schedules.
- Collect returns, cores, and parts from nearby stores or outside vendors.
- Follow personal protective equipment guidelines and fleet safety policies.
- Process customer payments securely according to company policies.
- Stay updated on promotions and automotive products through company systems.
- Maintain delivery vehicles and promptly report any issues.
- A high school diploma or equivalent GED is preferred.
- Strong people skills and effective communication in Spanish and English are preferred.
- Previous automotive retail experience is preferred.
- A valid Hazardous Materials endorsement is preferred.
About the company
AutoZone is a large retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories for both DIY customers and professional service shops (DIFM). Its products include hard parts, maintenance items, and related accessories, sold through thousands of brick-and-mortar stores and online. The way it works is simple: AutoZone buys parts from manufacturers and distributors and then sells them to customers at a markup, offering knowledgeable staff and a wide selection to help people diagnose and fix vehicle issues. It differentiates itself through its extensive physical footprint, broad product catalog, and focus on convenient, helpful customer service for both individual car owners and commercial customers, making it easier to find parts in-store or online. AutoZone’s goal is to be the primary, dependable source for automotive replacements and maintenance needs, helping customers complete repairs efficiently by providing ready access to parts and expert guidance.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Memphis, Tennessee
Founded
1979
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- FY2026 commercial sales rose 10.6%, driven by improved inventory availability and Mega Hubs.
- AutoZone opened 374 stores in FY2026 and plans about 400 more in FY2027.
- Average U.S. light-vehicle age hit 12.8 years, extending maintenance demand into 2027.
What critics are saying
- Domestic same-store sales slowed to 1.6% in Q4 FY2026, showing weak DIY traffic.
- FY2026 gross margin relied on a $96 million tariff refund and lower LIFO charges.
- If Mega Hub economics fail, O'Reilly and Advance Auto Parts win faster professional share.
What makes AutoZone unique
- 8,031 stores across the Americas gave AutoZone unmatched parts proximity on September 29, 2026.
- Mega Hubs reached 172 locations, speeding commercial delivery and broadening SKU availability in FY2026.
- Commercial programs ran in 94% of U.S. stores, embedding AutoZone inside repair-shop workflows.
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Cars are getting older: AutoZone earnings reveal how drivers cope. Americans are holding onto their automobiles longer, and that ought to be good news for companies that sell the parts required to keep those vehicles functioning. But new figures from AutoZone (AZO) tell a deeper narrative. The retailer generated $20.3 billion in fiscal 2026 sales, up 7.4% from the prior year. Earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 jumped 15.1% to $56.05 a share. Yet its most important consumer-facing number was considerably less impressive: Domestic same-store sales increased only 1.6% during the final 16 weeks of the year. That is a sharp deceleration from the full-year increase of 3.3%. Meanwhile, official inflation data reveals why the consumer is under pressure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the cost of maintaining and repairing motor vehicles was up 5.2% in August from a year ago. So, although Americans are spending more to keep their cars on the road, AutoZone's latest results suggest they are not exactly rushing out to spend on every repair or accessory. The American car is getting old. There's a great power at work beneath the whole automotive aftermarket. AutoZone says two stats have the closest long-term relationship with its market growth: miles driven and the number of vehicles at least seven years old. The company, in its most recent filing, cited data from S&P Global Mobility showing the average age of light vehicles in the U.S. has reached 12.8 years. That makes for a strange consumer equation. Older cars typically need more maintenance. But changing an old car to a new one can be a lot pricier. It's an increasing incentive for drivers to get more life out of the cars already parked in their driveways. That's the kind of consumer behavior that, over time, can benefit the automotive aftermarket. Americans are keeping older cars alive. One retailer just showed how. AutoZone's domestic comparable-store sales climbed just 1.6% in the fourth quarter, while the company's domestic commercial business surged 8.6% to $1.91 billion. Year-to-date domestic commercial sales rose 10.6% to $5.76 billion. The distinction is essential. More Automotive: The commercial business serves repair shops, dealers, service stations, fleet operators, and other professional clients. This aspect is considerably more related to the behavior of individual drivers regarding when and how much they spend. For example, AutoZone's presentation reveals that commercial programs were in 94% of its U.S. locations by the end of fiscal 2026. Professional repair activity, based on its figures, is a more powerful engine for the firm's development than its larger consumer business. These car costs are rising. The cost of keeping a car on the road is still increasing. The latest BLS data shows motor vehicle maintenance and repair prices rose 5.2% year over year in August. That gives a nice opening to do-it-yourself customers. AutoZone does not provide car repair or installation services. Instead, it sells replacement parts, accessories, and maintenance goods directly to customers and also supplies professional repair organizations. If professional labor becomes more costly, some car owners could have another motivation to DIY minor fixes. AutoZone's data don't show that customers are turning to DIY repairs because labor prices are rising. But the aging fleet of vehicles, increasing maintenance charges, and AutoZone's concentration on its DIY business combine to produce a consumer trend worth monitoring. AutoZone bets on faster parts access. AutoZone isn't simply opening traditional stores and waiting for customers. The company opened 175 stores during the fourth quarter, including 97 in the U.S., 68 in Mexico, and 10 in Brazil. That brought its global store count to 8,031. It also opened 16 new U.S. Mega Hub stores during the quarter. The strategy is increasingly about having the right part there quickly. AutoZone's growth priorities are expanding hubs and mega hubs, improving assortment and coverage, delivering the "best merchandise at the right price," and using technology to improve the customer experience. For a motorist with a broken-down car, availability might be nearly as important as pricing. An automobile in a driveway or maintenance bay is an immediate issue. The store that can supply the needed part fast has a built-in advantage. Investors should note inventory numbers. AutoZone's inventory climbed 10.1% over the year to $7.74 billion. Inventory per store also increased 5% to $963,000. This suggests the company's strategy is to add more items and expand the shop network, even when same-store consumer sales are relatively low. The investment would help the firm strengthen its inventory offering for both DIY and professional consumers, the company said. That might become more essential as cars age and repairs become more costly. AutoZone's $20 billion question. In the end, AutoZone's fiscal 2026 figures tell two distinct tales. The company crossed $20 billion in annual sales for the first time. Operating profit rose 3.1%, net income increased 3%, and EPS climbed 5.3%. It also repurchased $2 billion of its stock during the year and ended fiscal 2026 with another $1.6 billion available under its authorization. But the consumer story is more complex. But in the home market, same-store sales growth dropped substantially last quarter. That means the next phase of the automotive aftermarket isn't just about Americans spending more on their automobiles. It might be about how they use their cars. For a store focused on keeping older vehicles on the road, this difference may become more relevant for fiscal 2027.
AutoZone reported 5.6% total sales growth in Q4 2026, driven by an 11% full-year increase in commercial sales, which offset a 0.6% decline in DIY same-store sales. The company opened a record 374 stores in FY 2026, reaching 8,000 locations total. Gross margin expanded 182 basis points, aided by a $96 million tariff refund and lower LIFO charges. Foreign exchange tailwinds contributed $70 million to sales and $0.87 to earnings per share. For FY 2027, management projects flat to low-single-digit domestic same-store sales growth, with commercial sales expected to grow high-single to low-double digits. The company plans to open approximately 400 new stores. LIFO charges are forecast at $85 million to $90 million for FY 2027, down from $192 million in FY 2026. Capital expenditure will remain steady at approximately $1.5 billion, focused on store expansion and supply chain upgrades.
AutoZone climbs 6% as profit beat offsets revenue miss; Advance Auto Parts rises 6%, O'Reilly Automotive gains 4%. AutoZone's latest quarter split the market in two directions at once, and the ripple through its rivals says something surprising about how traders are reading the aftermarket retail group right now. This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. AutoZone (NYSE:AZO | AZO Price Prediction) delivered a fourth quarter that beat on profit but missed on sales, and the reaction is running through auto parts retailers rather than through consumer discretionary as a whole. The move is a cluster response to one company's report, not a sector-wide verdict. The Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLY) is at $112.18 and effectively unchanged in Tuesday trading, and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) is at $772.84 and essentially unmoved. With neither fund moving, the day frames as an idiosyncratic read on one corner of retail rather than a rotation into cyclicals. AutoZone stock is at $2,977.26, up 6% in Tuesday trading, and the move reads as a recovery off a weak year-to-date base rather than a fresh breakout. Also, Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP) stock is at $43.29, up 6%, climbing on the read-across from AutoZone's numbers rather than any release of its own. O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) stock is at $86.24, up 4%, rising on the AutoZone report rather than on any fresh disclosure. Profit beat, sales miss. AutoZone reported fourth-quarter earnings per share of $56.05 for the period that ended August 29, ahead of an analyst consensus of $54.30, according to InvestorsHub. Net sales at AutoZone came in at $6.6 billion, short of the $6.71 billion analysts polled by InvestorsHub expected. The split is what the market is reading: margin and execution held up in the quarter while the top line didn't clear the bar. Phil Daniele, AutoZone's chief executive, stated that in spite of a difficult selling environment during the first eight weeks of the quarter, the company remained committed to executing on its strategies to grow both its domestic and international businesses. Daniele added that sales results strengthened over the final eight weeks and that AutoZone is well positioned for sales growth in fiscal 2027. That framing matters because it points at back-half momentum rather than a broken quarter. AZO stock came into the session down 13% year to date, so a jump of this size is a recovery from a weak base rather than a fresh high-water mark. The bull case leans on margin discipline and the chief executive's account of a strengthening exit, while the bear case notes that the revenue shortfall is real and doesn't disappear because the profit line held. Read-Across to aftermarket peers. Advance Auto Parts and O'Reilly Automotive reported nothing of their own on Tuesday. Both are moving because AutoZone's quarter is being taken as evidence about demand across the group, particularly on the commercial side where the three names compete for professional-installer wallet share and for do-it-yourself traffic in their retail aisles. Twelve Tabs, One Thesis Your Research Resets Every Morning The quote page in one tab. Filings in another. A chart you rebuilt from scratch, a transcript you never went back and found, a screener whose settings you will redo next week. Nothing you built yesterday is still there. AlphaSpace replaces all of it with one screen you arrange yourself. Earnings calendar, estimate versus actual, the call transcript, live news, your own charts, every panel wired to whatever ticker you click. Close the browser and it is all still sitting there tomorrow. The mechanism is straightforward. When one aftermarket retailer posts a profit beat and speaks to strengthening sales in the back half of its quarter, traders extrapolate to peers whose businesses run through the same repair shops and the same suburban store footprints. Advance Auto Parts and O'Reilly Automotive rising nearly as hard as AutoZone on a day when neither issued a release is that read-across at work. The caution attached to it is that the two peers didn't report the quarter that caused the move. AutoZone's sales miss is a real data point about traffic that a strong margin line doesn't erase, and Advance Auto Parts and O'Reilly Automotive will each have to answer with their own numbers before the read turns into a confirmed trend across the group. Sympathy bids often unwind faster than they open when the underlying report was mixed. What to watch next. Going forward, the commercial book and the fiscal 2027 outlook the chief executive flagged is what can shape the next leg for AutoZone stock. Traders may want to check for whether the tone on the call matches the release, since a softer live delivery can take some of the buying back before the close. Market watchers could look for signs that the read-across into Advance Auto Parts and O'Reilly Automotive holds into the afternoon, or fades as the session moves on and the initial reaction cools. A cluster move without sector participation can compress as easily as it opened, particularly when the driving report carried a revenue miss alongside its profit beat. For position sizing in AutoZone stock, the setup argues for restraint. Bullish investors should scale their exposure with the sales miss in mind and treat the pop as recovery rather than breakout, and anyone chasing Advance Auto Parts or O'Reilly Automotive on the sympathy bid should keep their positions modest until each name reports its own quarter and confirms whether the AutoZone signal was a real read on the aftermarket or a one-name event. 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AutoZone reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 sales of $6.6 billion, up 5.6%, and diluted earnings per share of $56.05, a 15.1% increase. Full-year sales reached a record $20.3 billion, with the company opening 374 stores during the year. Domestic commercial sales grew nearly 11% for the full year, supported by improved inventory, delivery capabilities, and Mega Hub expansion. The company ended the year with 172 Mega Hubs and plans to open more than 40 in fiscal 2027. For fiscal 2027, AutoZone expects domestic same-store sales growth of flat to low-single-digits. The retailer plans to open about 400 stores globally and expects capital expenditures of approximately $1.65 billion.
AutoZone Q4 EPS hits $56.05 as annual sales reach $20.3bn. AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) reported fourth-quarter diluted earnings per share of $56.05 on 22 September 2026, up from $48.71 a year earlier. Net sales for the 16-week quarter reached $6.6bn, a 5.6% rise year-on-year, the retailer said in its results. AutoZone Q4 earnings beat masks a currency wrinkle. Domestic same-store sales rose 1.6% in the quarter ended 29 August 2026, AutoZone's filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows. The headline "total company" same-store sales figure of 1.5% is the constant-currency measure. The as-reported, nominal total-company comparable-sales growth was 2.7%, according to the same SEC exhibit and figures reported by Benzinga. International same-store sales climbed 10.7% as reported, or 1.3% on a constant-currency basis. Q4 net income totalled $931.6m, up from $837.0m a year earlier, GuruFocus reported. Full fiscal 2026 net sales came to $20.3bn, up 7.4% on the prior year. Tariff refunds and LIFO lift gross margin. Gross margin reached 53.3% in the quarter, up 182 basis points, with 145 basis points of that gain coming from a tariff-refund benefit and a further 105 basis points from a non-cash LIFO benefit, the company's SEC filing shows. Those one-off items help explain why quarterly earnings growth outpaced the full-year trend: full-year diluted EPS rose to $152.55 from $144.87, a 5.3% gain versus the fourth quarter's 15.1% jump, according to StockTitan. The scale of the swing stands out against last year's fourth quarter, when AutoZone's EPS fell 5.6% to $48.71 from $51.58 in fiscal 2024, hit by a LIFO-related margin squeeze. This year's rebound, then, follows a soft comparable period rather than building on an already-strong one. Quarterly filings lodged with the SEC through the year show the pattern building steadily: revenue of $4.63bn in the first quarter, $4.27bn in the second and $4.84bn in the third, before the fourth-quarter net sales of $6.6bn (a figure that includes the year's peak summer trading period) pushed the full-year total past $20.3bn. Net income across those earlier quarters ran from $468.9m in the second quarter to $641.5m in the third, underscoring how much of the year's profit growth concentrated in the final period alongside the tariff and LIFO tailwinds. Store expansion continues alongside the earnings beat. AutoZone opened 175 net new stores in the quarter - 97 in the US, 68 in Mexico and 10 in Brazil - ending the year with 8,031 stores in total, according to Alphastreet. The pace keeps the retailer's long-running international expansion intact even as domestic same-store sales growth remains in low single digits. Shares traded at $2,931.63 as of the latest snapshot, up 4.33% over 24 hours following the release, reflecting the market's reception of the print even with the constant-currency nuance buried in the detail. FINRA's short-sale volume ratio for AZO climbed as high as 0.674 on 10 September before easing to 0.535 the day before earnings, FINRA data show, pointing to elevated short-side positioning heading into the results. The report also lands against a firmer rate backdrop: the 10-year US Treasury yield stood at 5.01% on 18 September, up from 4.94% the prior reading, according to FRED data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. Higher borrowing costs bear on how investors weigh AutoZone's debt-financed share buyback programme against the durability of its Q4 margin gains, much of which stemmed from one-off tariff-refund and LIFO benefits rather than underlying pricing power. Investors will get their next clear read on whether the tariff-refund and LIFO benefits recur when AutoZone reports first-quarter fiscal 2027 results, with the constant-currency versus as-reported same-store sales gap likely to remain a detail worth checking line by line. This article is for information only and is not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Markets move quickly; figures are correct as sourced at the time of writing. Always do your own research before making financial decisions.