Lithia Motors (Lithia Motors) Operating Income : $1,729 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)

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What is Lithia Motors Operating Income?

Lithia Motors's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $343 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $1,729 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. Lithia Motors's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $343 Mil. Lithia Motors's Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $8,556 Mil. Therefore, Lithia Motors's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.01%.

Good Sign:

Lithia Motors Inc operating margin is expanding. Margin expansion is usually a good sign.

Lithia Motors's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 12.10% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. Lithia Motors's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 5.23%. Lithia Motors's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 14.90%.

Lithia Motors Operating Income Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lithia Motors's Operating Income can be seen below:

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Lithia Motors Operating Income Chart

Lithia Motors Annual Data

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487.90

675.90

1,651.10

1,879.10

1,704.20

Lithia Motors Quarterly Data
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Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															355.50	493.50	412.30	480.30	343.10

Lithia Motors Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,729 Mil.

Lithia Motors (NYSE:LAD) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

Lithia Motors's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

	ROC % (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	NOPAT	/	Average Invested Capital
=	Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )	/	( (Invested Capital (Q: Dec. 2023 )	+	Invested Capital (Q: Mar. 2024 ))	/ count )
=	1372.4 * ( 1 - 25.2% )	/	( (17504	+	21775.4)	/ 2 )
=	1026.5552	/	19639.7
=	5.23 %

where

	Invested Capital		(Q: Dec. 2023 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	19632.5	-	1187.1	-	( 941.4	-	max(0, 4932.2	-	6955.2	+	941.4	))
=	17504

	Invested Capital		(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	22180	-	0	-	( 404.6	-	max(0, 6591.5	-	7733.2	+	404.6	))
=	21775.4

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

Lithia Motors's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

	ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %		(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Net fixed Assets	+	Net Working Capital)
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment	+	Net Working Capital)
			Q: Dec. 2023		Q: Mar. 2024
=	EBIT	/	( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital)	+	(Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )	/	count )
=	1379.6	/	( ( (4460.2 + max(3856.9, 0))	+	(4502 + max(5699.1, 0)) )	/	2 )
=	1379.6	/	( ( 8317.1	+	10201.1 )	/	2 )
=	1379.6	/	9259.1
=	14.90 %

where Working Capital is:

	Working Capital		(Q: Dec. 2023 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(153.3	+	4753.9	+	136.8)	-	(1187.1	+	0	+	0)
=	3856.9

	Working Capital		(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(1249.3	+	5861.9	+	217.4)	-	(0	+	0	+	1629.5)
=	5699.1

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2024) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

Lithia Motors's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %	=	Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )	/	Revenue (Q: Mar. 2024 )
	=	343.1	/	8556.4
	=	4.01 %

4. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Operating Income growth rate using Operating Income per share data.

Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important screening filter for GuruFocus. GuruFocus's Buffett-Munger screener requires that the profit margin is either consistent or expanding. The Model Portfolio of the Buffett-Munger screener has outperformed the market every year since inception in 2009.

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Lithia Motors (Lithia Motors) Business Description

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150 N. Bartlett Street, Medford, OR, USA, 97501

Website

https://www.lithia.com

Lithia Motors is a retailer of new and used vehicles and related services. The company offers over 45 brands of vehicles at about 350 stores globally including 28 U.S. states at year-end 2022 and entered Canada in mid-2021 with the purchase of Pfaff Automotive and bought Jardine and soon Pendragon in the U.K. in 2023. The company has expanded largely through the acquisition of dealerships in smaller regional markets but now seeks to grow in any part of the U.S. and we expect more deals over time in the U.S. and abroad. Annual revenue in 2022 was $28.2 billion and we see over $50 billion possible in 2025. In 2022, new-car sales were about 46% of total revenue. Lithia was founded in 1946, went public in 1996, and is now the largest U.S. auto dealer. It is based in Medford, Oregon.

Executives

Shauna Mcintyre	director	150 N. BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
Sidney B Deboer	director, officer: Executive Chairman	234 VISTA ST., ASHLAND OR 97520
Bryan B Deboer	director, officer: Chief Executive officer	150 N. BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
Tina Miller	officer: VP, CAO & Principal Fin. Off.	150 N. BARTLETT ST., MEDFORD OR 97501
Chris Holzshu	officer: Sr. Vice President & CFO	150 N. BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
David Stork	officer: Senior Vice President	150 N. BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
George N Hines	officer: SVP, Chief Tech. & Innov. Off.	150 N. BARTLETT ST., MEDFORD OR 97501
Loretz Congdon Stacy	director	C/O CORE-MARK HOLDING CO. INC., 395 OYSTER POINT BLVD., SUITE 415, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Gary M Glandon	officer: Chief People Officer	C/O LITHIA MOTORS, INC., 150 NORTH BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
James E. Lentz	director	C/O LITHIA MOTORS INC., 150 NORTH BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
Louis Miramontes	director	150 N. BARTLETT ST., MEDFORD OR 97501
Scott Hillier	officer: Sr. VP of Operations	150 N. BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
Kenneth E Roberts	director	150 N. BARTLETT ST., MEDFORD OR 97501
Marguerite Celeste	officer: Senior Vice President	150 N BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501
Susan O Cain	director	150 NORTH BARTLETT STREET, MEDFORD OR 97501