O’Reilly Automotive, Inc (NASDAQ:ORLY) price on Thursday, July 24, rose 2.87% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $98.16.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $95.42, moving within a range at $95.34 and $100.08. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.583 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 35.09. Turning to its 52-week performance, $97.23 and $69.33 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ORLY moved 10.07% over the past month.
O’Reilly Automotive, Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $83.91 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Apr-23.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 4.66B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 4.6B and 4.7B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 6.77% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 17.67B, representing a 5.74% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ORLY is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
7 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 5 recommend ORLY as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 3.39, with ORLY’s current price about 6.57% and 7.70% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 70.49, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.41% and 2.05% in the 30-day chart. Further, O’Reilly Automotive, Inc (ORLY) has a beta value of 0.56. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $1580, forecast between a low of $1580 and high of $1580. Looking at the price targets, the low is -1509.62% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -1509.62%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -1509.62% jump to $1580 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on O’Reilly Automotive, Inc (NASDAQ:ORLY), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 4.83 over the past 10 days and 5.50 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 850.56 million shares.
The 0.79% of O’Reilly Automotive, Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 86.03% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 14.4 million on 2025-07-15, giving us a short ratio of 2.98. The data shows that as of 2025-07-15 short interest in O’Reilly Automotive, Inc (ORLY) stood at 171.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 13.62 million registered in 2025-06-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 39.29% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ORLY stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
