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Advance Auto Parts serves garages, service stations and auto dealerships that need parts for customer repairs, alongside drivers maintaining their own vehicles. These professional and do-it-yourself customers make similarly large contributions to sales. The business is concentrated in the United States, with stores under the Advance Auto Parts and Carquest names. It delivers parts to repair businesses, serves consumers in stores and online, and supplies independently owned Carquest stores. Its products include national brands and its own brands, such as DieHard batteries.
Sales depend on vehicles needing maintenance and repair, particularly older vehicles outside manufacturer warranties. Serving that demand requires having the right parts available quickly: distribution centers, hubs and stores support same-day or next-day availability. Merchandise purchase prices and supplier terms also shape how much the company earns from those sales.
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O’Reilly competes closely with Advance Auto Parts for replacement-parts purchases: both sell through store networks, with roughly half their sales from DIY customers and half from professional installers. O’Reilly’s sales to repair professionals are worth watching for competition over a customer group that also supplies about half of Advance’s revenue.
AutoZone competes with Advance Auto Parts for DIY motorists’ and repair businesses’ spending on replacement parts and maintenance supplies, using stores and delivery services. Watch AutoZone’s parts availability and prompt delivery to repair customers—both are areas where Advance also competes for orders.
Genuine Parts’ NAPA business competes with Advance Auto Parts for repair-shop and retail parts purchases, but its industrial and international businesses make total-company results a less direct comparison. Watch North America Automotive sales rather than group revenue for the closer read on Advance’s competitive market.
Advance Auto Parts buys replacement parts from Motorcar Parts of America, whose range includes alternators, starters and brake components, then sells parts to DIY customers and professional installers. Watch Motorcar Parts of America’s product quality and supply reliability, which it identifies as important to buyers choosing a parts supplier.
CarParts.com competes online for the DIY and professional customers who buy mechanical replacement parts and accessories from Advance Auto Parts’ stores and website. Its ability to match parts accurately to a vehicle and deliver them quickly shows where Advance faces competition for online repair purchases.
Valvoline and Advance Auto Parts depend on maintenance needs in the same U.S. and Canadian vehicle fleet: Valvoline charges consumers and commercial customers for oil changes and preventive maintenance, while Advance sells parts and fluids. Valvoline’s oil-change business offers a read on the maintenance demand behind Advance’s oils and fluids sales, not on parts-store competition.
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. earningsORLY
O’Reilly’s report will show whether repair shops are still buying parts, giving a read on the market where Advance Auto Parts competes for professional orders.
Look at O’Reilly’s sales to professional customers. Steady or growing sales would show that repair shops are still buying from parts chains, supporting demand in the market where Advance Auto Parts serves shops; weaker sales would point to softer shop purchasing or difficulty winning those orders.
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC earningsThis company
Advance Auto Parts’ report will show whether store sales can grow while the parts business holds on to its improved gross margin.
Read comparable store sales alongside gross margin, the share of sales left after the cost of the goods sold. Growing sales with margin holding would show that customer purchases and sourcing or pricing are supporting the parts business; stalled or falling sales with margin slipping would show that demand or product costs are still squeezing it.
Valvoline Inc. earningsVVV
Valvoline’s report will show whether drivers and commercial customers are still paying for oil changes, a read on maintenance demand behind Advance Auto Parts’ oils and fluids sales.
Look at service activity and sales in Valvoline’s oil-change business. Growth would show that consumers and commercial customers are still paying for routine maintenance, supporting demand for Advance Auto Parts’ oils and fluids; weakness would suggest that this maintenance demand is softening, but would not by itself establish weaker parts demand.
