AutoZone (AZO)
Retailer and distributor of replacement parts for DIY customers and professional repair shops.
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AutoZone sells the parts that keep older cars running — batteries, brakes, filters — out of thousands of stores across the United States, Mexico and Brazil. Most of the money still comes from drivers fixing their own cars, but the side growing fastest is delivery to professional repair shops. The whole thing rests on having the odd part within reach of a waiting mechanic, and on borrowing to keep buying back its own stock.
Item facts: FY2025 · year ended Aug 30, 2025, from filings, earnings calls and company pages.
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Domestic DIY retail
Walk-in sales across roughly 6,900 US stores, and the biggest thing AutoZone does. Recent quarters show fewer shoppers each spending more — watch whether the missing visits come back.
Competes with DIY store business (O'Reilly Automotive) · Retail stores (Advance Auto Parts) · Online parts and accessories (Amazon)
In plain English
The shelf a driver walks up to when the car will not start on a Tuesday morning. Batteries, brake pads, wipers, oil: roughly eighty-five percent of what AutoZone sells is a failure or a maintenance job rather than a treat, so the buying happens whether or not people feel rich.
The money arrives one basket at a time, at a markup a supermarket would envy, because the store keeps the awkward part for an ageing sedan that nobody else nearby bothers to stock. The average American car is now about thirteen years old, and old cars break.
Duralast and the in-house brands
AutoZone's own-label parts, Duralast the volume name. No sales figure is published; the job is to hold the profit on each sale while cheaper shop deliveries grow. Watch tariffs and freight.
Competes with DieHard (Advance Auto Parts) · NAPA-branded parts (Genuine Parts Company)
In plain English
A store brand, the way a supermarket sells its own ketchup beside the famous one — except here it is batteries, brake parts and starters, built to order by outside factories and sold under names AutoZone owns: Duralast, with Econocraft, Valucraft, SureBilt and a few more alongside it.
Every time a customer takes the house label instead of a national one, AutoZone keeps a little more of the price, and management says steering volume this way is part of how the profit rate stays up. It is also where the imports sit: about an eighth of everything the company buys comes from a single supplier it does not name, and about an eighth is brought in from abroad directly.
Domestic commercial program
Parts delivered to professional garages and fleets — about 6,360 shop programs by spring 2026. The growing side, and the one that earns less per sale. O'Reilly is growing its version faster and has bid roughly $10 billion for NAPA, still unsettled.
Competes with Professional service provider business (O'Reilly Automotive) · NAPA Auto Parts (Genuine Parts Company) · Carquest Pro channel (Advance Auto Parts)
In plain English
The mechanic with a car up on the lift does not drive anywhere. Someone takes the order at a counter, someone else runs the part over in a small car, and the bay keeps moving. By spring 2026 about ninety-four percent of US AutoZone stores ran one of these delivery operations, each averaging around eighteen and a half thousand dollars of sales a week.
Repair shops pay trade prices, so a dollar here is worth less than a walk-in dollar, but they buy constantly and in volume. The whole thing turns on minutes: a shop left waiting phones someone else next time. Management calls itself badly under-represented in this trade, which is the polite version of saying rivals still hold most of it.
Mega hub and hub store network
Three sizes of store stacked together: ordinary stores, hub stores, and mega hubs holding over a hundred thousand different parts for same-day supply nearby. Roughly 155 by spring 2026, heading toward about 300.
Competes with Market Hubs (Advance Auto Parts) · Hub stores and distribution centres (O'Reilly Automotive)
In plain English
Picture a library where the branch near you keeps the popular titles, a bigger branch across town keeps more, and one central building keeps nearly everything — with a van shuttling between them the same day. AutoZone's stores are arranged like that: ordinary stores, hub stores, and mega hubs carrying over a hundred thousand different parts.
None of it is sold on its own. It earns its keep by putting the strange part within a short drive, which is what persuades a repair shop to call AutoZone first. Management says hubs grow faster than the rest of the chain but has never said by how much. Capital spending of nearly a billion and a half dollars this year goes largely to opening more stores, hubs among them.
Mexico and Brazil store network
About a thousand stores in Mexico and roughly 170 in Brazil, the fastest-growing part of the chain, with new warehouses behind both. Reported growth flatters it: currency swallowed most of one spring quarter's gain.
Competes with O'Reilly Mexico stores (O'Reilly Automotive) · Independent refaccionaria parts shops (Rolcar)
In plain English
Same shop, different street. AutoZone has copied the US format abroad rather than exporting a thinner one — roughly a thousand company-run stores in Mexico, about 170 in Brazil, with the same big stock-holding hub stores behind them and a larger warehouse near Monterrey supplying Mexican stores since December.
Customers buy the same way, a part or a battery over a counter. The catch is the exchange rate. Sales are earned in pesos and reais but counted in dollars, so when those currencies slip the growth shrinks on the way home: one spring quarter's sixteen-percent gain was under two percent once the currency move was taken out, and Mexican consumer demand was described as under pressure.
ALLDATA
Subscription software that tells a repair shop how to fix a given car. The one piece of AutoZone that bills monthly, and the only one reaching shops that buy no parts from it.
Competes with Mitchell 1 ProDemand (Snap-on) · Identifix Direct-Hit (Solera) · Shop management platform (Tekmetric)
In plain English
Every car model has its own factory repair steps, wiring maps and service notices, and no garage can keep all of that on a shelf. ALLDATA gathers it into software a shop opens on a screen: look up the vehicle, get the manufacturer's procedure, plus tools for writing up estimates and running the workshop.
Shops pay a subscription month after month, because the alternative is guessing on a car they see twice a year. Inside AutoZone it is tiny — a rounding error beside the stores, mentioned once across eight quarterly calls — but it is the only money that arrives whether or not anyone buys a part.
Domestic DIY retailWalk-in sales across roughly 6,900 US stores, and the biggest thing AutoZone does. Recent quarters show fewer shoppers each spending more — watch whether the missing visits come back.Walk-in sales across roughly 6,900 US stores, and the biggest thing AutoZone does. Recent quarters show fewer shoppers each spending more — watch whether the missing visits come back.
In plain English
The shelf a driver walks up to when the car will not start on a Tuesday morning. Batteries, brake pads, wipers, oil: roughly eighty-five percent of what AutoZone sells is a failure or a maintenance job rather than a treat, so the buying happens whether or not people feel rich.
The money arrives one basket at a time, at a markup a supermarket would envy, because the store keeps the awkward part for an ageing sedan that nobody else nearby bothers to stock. The average American car is now about thirteen years old, and old cars break.
Competes with DIY store business (O'Reilly Automotive) · Retail stores (Advance Auto Parts) · Online parts and accessories (Amazon)
Duralast and the in-house brandsAutoZone's own-label parts, Duralast the volume name. No sales figure is published; the job is to hold the profit on each sale while cheaper shop deliveries grow. Watch tariffs and freight.AutoZone's own-label parts, Duralast the volume name. No sales figure is published; the job is to hold the profit on each sale while cheaper shop deliveries grow. Watch tariffs and freight.
In plain English
A store brand, the way a supermarket sells its own ketchup beside the famous one — except here it is batteries, brake parts and starters, built to order by outside factories and sold under names AutoZone owns: Duralast, with Econocraft, Valucraft, SureBilt and a few more alongside it.
Every time a customer takes the house label instead of a national one, AutoZone keeps a little more of the price, and management says steering volume this way is part of how the profit rate stays up. It is also where the imports sit: about an eighth of everything the company buys comes from a single supplier it does not name, and about an eighth is brought in from abroad directly.
Competes with DieHard (Advance Auto Parts) · NAPA-branded parts (Genuine Parts Company)
Domestic commercial programParts delivered to professional garages and fleets — about 6,360 shop programs by spring 2026. The growing side, and the one that earns less per sale. O'Reilly is growing its version faster and has bid roughly $10 billion for NAPA, still unsettled.Parts delivered to professional garages and fleets — about 6,360 shop programs by spring 2026. The growing side, and the one that earns less per sale. O'Reilly is growing its version faster and has bid roughly $10 billion for NAPA, still unsettled.
In plain English
The mechanic with a car up on the lift does not drive anywhere. Someone takes the order at a counter, someone else runs the part over in a small car, and the bay keeps moving. By spring 2026 about ninety-four percent of US AutoZone stores ran one of these delivery operations, each averaging around eighteen and a half thousand dollars of sales a week.
Repair shops pay trade prices, so a dollar here is worth less than a walk-in dollar, but they buy constantly and in volume. The whole thing turns on minutes: a shop left waiting phones someone else next time. Management calls itself badly under-represented in this trade, which is the polite version of saying rivals still hold most of it.
Competes with Professional service provider business (O'Reilly Automotive) · NAPA Auto Parts (Genuine Parts Company) · Carquest Pro channel (Advance Auto Parts)
Mega hub and hub store networkThree sizes of store stacked together: ordinary stores, hub stores, and mega hubs holding over a hundred thousand different parts for same-day supply nearby. Roughly 155 by spring 2026, heading toward about 300.Three sizes of store stacked together: ordinary stores, hub stores, and mega hubs holding over a hundred thousand different parts for same-day supply nearby. Roughly 155 by spring 2026, heading toward about 300.
In plain English
Picture a library where the branch near you keeps the popular titles, a bigger branch across town keeps more, and one central building keeps nearly everything — with a van shuttling between them the same day. AutoZone's stores are arranged like that: ordinary stores, hub stores, and mega hubs carrying over a hundred thousand different parts.
None of it is sold on its own. It earns its keep by putting the strange part within a short drive, which is what persuades a repair shop to call AutoZone first. Management says hubs grow faster than the rest of the chain but has never said by how much. Capital spending of nearly a billion and a half dollars this year goes largely to opening more stores, hubs among them.
Competes with Market Hubs (Advance Auto Parts) · Hub stores and distribution centres (O'Reilly Automotive)
Mexico and Brazil store networkAbout a thousand stores in Mexico and roughly 170 in Brazil, the fastest-growing part of the chain, with new warehouses behind both. Reported growth flatters it: currency swallowed most of one spring quarter's gain.About a thousand stores in Mexico and roughly 170 in Brazil, the fastest-growing part of the chain, with new warehouses behind both. Reported growth flatters it: currency swallowed most of one spring quarter's gain.
In plain English
Same shop, different street. AutoZone has copied the US format abroad rather than exporting a thinner one — roughly a thousand company-run stores in Mexico, about 170 in Brazil, with the same big stock-holding hub stores behind them and a larger warehouse near Monterrey supplying Mexican stores since December.
Customers buy the same way, a part or a battery over a counter. The catch is the exchange rate. Sales are earned in pesos and reais but counted in dollars, so when those currencies slip the growth shrinks on the way home: one spring quarter's sixteen-percent gain was under two percent once the currency move was taken out, and Mexican consumer demand was described as under pressure.
Competes with O'Reilly Mexico stores (O'Reilly Automotive) · Independent refaccionaria parts shops (Rolcar)
ALLDATASubscription software that tells a repair shop how to fix a given car. The one piece of AutoZone that bills monthly, and the only one reaching shops that buy no parts from it.Subscription software that tells a repair shop how to fix a given car. The one piece of AutoZone that bills monthly, and the only one reaching shops that buy no parts from it.
In plain English
Every car model has its own factory repair steps, wiring maps and service notices, and no garage can keep all of that on a shelf. ALLDATA gathers it into software a shop opens on a screen: look up the vehicle, get the manufacturer's procedure, plus tools for writing up estimates and running the workshop.
Shops pay a subscription month after month, because the alternative is guessing on a car they see twice a year. Inside AutoZone it is tiny — a rounding error beside the stores, mentioned once across eight quarterly calls — but it is the only money that arrives whether or not anyone buys a part.
Competes with Mitchell 1 ProDemand (Snap-on) · Identifix Direct-Hit (Solera) · Shop management platform (Tekmetric)
Named in filings, launches and programs
- Brazil store networkSegment · Ramping167 stores in late August 2026 against 147 a year earlier, about five or six added a quarter, with a warehouse of its own being built.
- National accountsCustomer program · RampingThe chains and fleets half of the shop-delivery business, growing double digits in spring 2026, though management sees few new national accounts coming to market.
- Up-and-down-the-street customersCustomer program · RampingIndependent neighbourhood garages, the other half of shop deliveries, also growing double digits and served on the same store-based cost model.
- autozonepro.comPlatformThe ordering site professional shops use to place their parts orders between deliveries.
- autozone.comServiceOnline orders shipped to the door or collected at a store; pickups are counted as store sales, so the web side rarely shows up on its own.
- Satellite storesEcosystemThe ordinary stores sitting under the hubs; widening what each one carries is a standing project.
- Distribution centresEcosystem · RampingTwo new US warehouses opened in fiscal 2025, a larger Monterrey one supplying Mexico since December, and a Brazilian one under construction.
- Fix Finder, Loan-A-Tool and battery testingServiceFree engine-code reading, tool loans and battery checks with no revenue of their own — they exist to pull drivers through the door.
- Econocraft, Valucraft, SureBilt and the other house labelsBrandThe in-house names sold beside Duralast through both channels; none is broken out separately in what the company reports.
Brazil store networkSegment · Ramping
167 stores in late August 2026 against 147 a year earlier, about five or six added a quarter, with a warehouse of its own being built.
National accountsCustomer program · Ramping
The chains and fleets half of the shop-delivery business, growing double digits in spring 2026, though management sees few new national accounts coming to market.
Up-and-down-the-street customersCustomer program · Ramping
Independent neighbourhood garages, the other half of shop deliveries, also growing double digits and served on the same store-based cost model.
autozonepro.comPlatform
The ordering site professional shops use to place their parts orders between deliveries.
autozone.comService
Online orders shipped to the door or collected at a store; pickups are counted as store sales, so the web side rarely shows up on its own.
Satellite storesEcosystem
The ordinary stores sitting under the hubs; widening what each one carries is a standing project.
Distribution centresEcosystem · Ramping
Two new US warehouses opened in fiscal 2025, a larger Monterrey one supplying Mexico since December, and a Brazilian one under construction.
Fix Finder, Loan-A-Tool and battery testingService
Free engine-code reading, tool loans and battery checks with no revenue of their own — they exist to pull drivers through the door.
Econocraft, Valucraft, SureBilt and the other house labelsBrand
The in-house names sold beside Duralast through both channels; none is broken out separately in what the company reports.