Penske Automotive Group, Inc. (PAG)

Car and truck dealerships, 27,700. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 31 of the 75 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states one total and nothing by segment or country, so dealerships and truck distribution take their shares by description (c), said so.

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, 27% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 19% people work and 52% 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 71% 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

27,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; retail automotive and commercial truck operations in the U.S., the U.K., Western Europe, Japan and Australia with no count by country.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed over 27,700 people, of which approximately 736 were covered by collective bargaining agreements with labor unions.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Over 27,700 employees, about 736 covered by collective bargaining agreements; turnover about 20%; Penske Transportation Solutions, 28.9% owned, employs over 42,000 people who are not the company's employees.

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

What the filing says about AI

5 sentences in the filing name AI. Five sentences: AI-driven service scheduling, a voice assistant for inbound service calls and an engagement system for customer inquiries at its dealerships, and laws adopted before AI.

• “Additionally, our AI-driven service scheduling and reception system at certain of our dealerships enhances the customer experience by providing instant support, reducing wait times, and offering 24/7 assistance, enabling seamless service even outside regular hours.”
• “In addition, we have implemented AI-driven technologies at our dealerships, including a voice assistant to answer and appoint inbound service calls and an engagement system to address customer lead inquiries and schedule sales and service appointments.”
• “With respect to online sales, many laws and regulations applicable to our business were adopted prior to the introduction of the Internet, artificial intelligence, certain digital technologies, and e-commerce, generally.”
• “Many privacy laws and regulations applicable to our business were adopted prior to the introduction of the Internet, artificial intelligence, certain digital technologies, and e-commerce, generally.”
• “Moreover, increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technologies may increase our cybersecurity risks as we and other industry participants need to respond to these novel technologies which will likely be used to thwart our defenses or to obtain personal information.”

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 20212median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20231median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 4
• Fiscal 20255median 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.

Limits of this reading

• The collector's pick (42,000) is the workforce of Penske Transportation Solutions, a 28.9%-owned affiliate, not the company's; the total is the 27,700 the filing states (rules 2 and 8).
• No U.S. share and no count by segment: shares by description (c), with the U.S. patterns applied abroad under rule 7.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-012830, 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.