Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (GPI)
Car dealerships in the U.S. and U.K. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 40 of the 94 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
20,452
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%
A dealership group whose filing states its total and its count by country but nothing by function, so one dealer pattern carries it.
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
20,452 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 13,563 of 20,452 employees were employed in the U.S. and 6,889 in the U.K., about 66% in the U.S.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 20,452 employees (full-time, part-time and temporary), of which 13,563 were employed in the U.S. and 6,889 in the U.K.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Automobile Dealers | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes an automotive retailer whose dealerships sell new and used vehicles (90% of 2025 revenue) and parts and service and arrange financing, all dealership work that BLS counts in automobile dealers; it counts employees by country, not by function, and the pattern applies in the U.K. because the work is the same (rule 7). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 20,452 employees, full-time, part-time and temporary, 13,563 in the U.S. and 6,889 in the U.K.; the filing describes a management training program and a technician training program; no hourly, part-time or union counts are stated.
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
- AutoNation, Inc. (AN, 24,800 employees)21% now, 28% by 2028
- Carvana Co. (CVNA, 23,100 employees)21% now, 28% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one AI sentence describes digital retailing tools including AI-enabled appointment setting and virtual finance and insurance solutions among its investments in customer and employee efficiency.
- “We continue to invest in technology, data and process improvements that enhance both customer and employee efficiency, including centralized customer experience enhancements from digital retailing tools such as AI-enabled appointment setting and virtual F&I solutions.”
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 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 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 | 20,452 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 20,413 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 16,011 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 15,491 | 2023-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 13,711 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 12,337 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 15,296 | 2020-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 14,570 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 14,108 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 13,500 | 2017-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 12,886 | 2016-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 11,978 | 2015-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,510 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 9,343 | 2013-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 8,267 | 2012-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 7,454 | 2011-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 6,990 | 2010-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 7,687 | 2009-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 8,932 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 8,785 | 2007-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 8,400 | 2006-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 8,800 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 7,400 | 2004-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 7,100 | 2003-03-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 6,000 | 2002-03-20 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 5,830 | 2001-03-20 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 4,400 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 3,101 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,556 | 1998-03-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The count includes full-time, part-time and temporary employees, as the filing states it.
- One pattern by description (c); the filing counts employees by country, not by function.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001031203-26-000064, 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 Group 1 Automotive, 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 Group 1 Automotive, 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 Group 1 Automotive, Inc. employ?
- 20,452 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 66% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Group 1 Automotive, 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 Group 1 Automotive, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 1, 1, 0 and 1 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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