AutoNation, Inc. (AN)
Auto dealer group, 24,800, one pattern. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 35 of the 85 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
24,800
Leading staffing pattern
Automobile Dealers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now21%
- End of 202726%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203028%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 72%
- Becomes checking a model's work 18%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
An automotive retailer whose filing states one total and a small union count, and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the dealers pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 21% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 28% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 28% desk work, 19% people work and 53% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 72% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 18% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
24,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; its stores and revenue are in the United States.
The filing: “Human Capital Resources As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 24,800 full-time and part-time employees, whom we refer to as "associates," approximately 170 of whom were covered by collective bargaining agreements.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Automobile Dealers | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes one business, new and used vehicle sales, parts and service and finance and insurance at its dealerships, with no count by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the automobile dealers pattern, which holds the technicians and office staff BLS counts there. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 24,800 full-time and part-time associates as of December 31, 2025 (25,100 a year earlier); about 170 covered by collective bargaining agreements; a shared service center in Irving, Texas.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Automobile Dealers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Lithia Motors, Inc. (LAD, 30,000 employees)21% now, 28% by 2028
- CarMax, Inc. (KMX, 27,796 employees)22% now, 30% by 2028
- Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (PAG, 27,700 employees)22% now, 28% by 2028
- Carvana Co. (CVNA, 23,100 employees)21% now, 28% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 2 times, as a tool of attackers and a factor that intensifies cybersecurity risk.
- “Our facilities and systems could experience security breaches, including with the use of adversarial artificial intelligence software or techniques, malicious software (malware, ransomware, and viruses), lost or misplaced data, programming errors, human errors, acts of vandalism, or other events.”
- “The rapid evolution and increased availability and use of artificial intelligence by us, third-party service providers, or threat actors may intensify cybersecurity risks by making cyber incidents more sophisticated and cyber incidents more difficult to detect, contain, and mitigate.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 24,800 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 25,100 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 25,300 | 2024-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 23,600 | 2023-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 22,200 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 21,600 | 2021-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 25,000 | 2020-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 26,000 | 2019-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 26,000 | 2018-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 26,000 | 2017-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 26,000 | 2016-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 24,000 | 2015-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 22,000 | 2014-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 21,000 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 19,400 | 2012-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 19,000 | 2011-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 18,000 | 2010-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 20,000 | 2009-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 25,000 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 26,000 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 27,000 | 2006-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 27,000 | 2005-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 28,000 | 2004-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 28,500 | 2003-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 30,000 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 31,000 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 33,000 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 42,000 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 56,000 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 30,300 | 1997-02-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 4,090 | 1996-03-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description: the filing gives no count by kind of work.
- No U.S. share is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-007800, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of AutoNation, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce AutoNation, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does AutoNation, Inc. employ?
- 24,800 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up AutoNation, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Automobile Dealers; by those patterns the work is about 28% desk work, 19% people work and 53% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does AutoNation, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 2 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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