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Asbury Automotive Group (ABG) Stock Jumps As Profit Squeeze Meets Tekion Optimism
Asbury Automotive Group stock jumped 6.3% to about US$241 into the close, which indicates investors chose excitement over caution on this print. The headline is a profit squeeze. Q2 basic earnings per share came in at US$6.26 and net income was US$114.6m on US$4.38b of revenue. That is a lighter earnings haul than recent quarters for this auto retailer, even as the business leans on its technology rollout story.
Today the market rewarded the transition narrative more than the compressed...