Sonic Automotive Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

DB:SA8A Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
17 Feb 26	Buy€5,068,326	Paul Rusnak	Individual		100,000	€50.71

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of SA8A?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	3,409	0.0101%
Individual Insiders	6,677,303	19.8%
Private Companies	12,865,909	38.1%
Institutions	14,227,681	42.1%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 93.41% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
31.2%	Sonic Financial Corporation	9,858,125	€729.1m	0%	no data
16.1%	Paul Rusnak	5,100,000	€377.2m	2%	no data
9.52%	Obs Family, LLC	3,007,784	€222.5m	0%	no data
7.94%	BlackRock, Inc.	2,507,971	€185.5m	2.23%	no data
4.16%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	1,313,857	€97.2m	3.84%	0.01%
2.62%	Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC	828,874	€61.3m	0%	no data
2.14%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	675,852	€50.0m	-3.61%	no data
2.01%	Nomura Investment Management Business Trust	634,926	€47.0m	-10.1%	0.06%
1.92%	Westwood Management Corp.	607,882	€45.0m	1.97%	0.33%
1.83%	Vanguard Capital Management, LLC	577,893	€42.7m	0%	no data
1.58%	David Smith	499,994	€37.0m	0%	no data
1.39%	Invesco Capital Management LLC	438,236	€32.4m	-12.1%	0.01%
1.14%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	360,941	€26.7m	-3.76%	no data
1.11%	B. Smith	349,279	€25.8m	-11%	no data
1.03%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	326,680	€24.2m	-11.9%	no data
1.03%	Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC	325,948	€24.1m	93.2%	0.32%
0.97%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	305,662	€22.6m	8.14%	no data
0.95%	Frank Dyke	299,916	€22.2m	-25%	no data
0.8%	Northern Trust Global Investments	251,423	€18.6m	1.07%	no data
0.75%	Two Sigma Investments, LP	237,333	€17.6m	51%	0.01%
0.71%	American Century Investment Management Inc	224,102	€16.6m	13.3%	0.01%
0.69%	Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC	217,386	€16.1m	-24.1%	0.05%
0.69%	Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc	216,580	€16.0m	4.49%	0.06%
0.63%	BNY Asset Management	199,980	€14.8m	-2.45%	no data
0.49%	Squarepoint OPS LLC	154,248	€11.4m	118%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/06/29 01:55
End of Day Share Price	2026/06/29 00:00
Earnings	2026/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Sonic Automotive, Inc. is covered by 19 analysts. 11 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
John Babcock	Barclays
Michael Albanese	Benchmark Company
Alexander Perry	BofA Global Research