Genuine Parts Co (GPC) stock analysis
Genuine Parts Co (GPC) clears 2 of this site's 8 mechanical value filters, 2 of 8 Buffett-style checks and 2 of 5 Lynch-style checks. At $127.97 it trades 28.9% above this site's neutral DCF value (a margin of safety of -28.9%). Its earnings quality rates Strong and it returns +3.0% to shareholders net of dilution. Figures are as of October 23, 2026, from SEC filings and market data refreshed weekly; this is educational analysis, not investment advice.
Data as of October 23, 2026. Refreshed weekly from SEC filings and market data.
What does Genuine Parts do?
Genuine Parts Company distributes car replacement parts through NAPA stores and industrial parts through Motion.
Brands and businesses it owns
- NAPA
- Motion
- Alliance Automotive Group
What stands out about Genuine Parts?
- The share price implies 14.4% yearly growth. At $127.97, GPC's free cash flow of $5.81 per share would have to grow 14.4% a year, fading to 2.5% by year 10, for this site's DCF (10% discount rate) to match the price. This site's baseline starts at 8%, so the price asks for more growth than the baseline. Change the assumptions.
- Misses 4 of the 8 value filters. It fails Market Cap > $25B ($17.5B), Trailing P/E < 25 (532.76) and PEG Ratio < 1.5 (48.30) and 1 more; the other 2 pass and 2 were not evaluated. See every filter.
- P/E at the top of its own range. GPC trades at 532.8× trailing earnings; at the end of each of its last 5 fiscal years the multiple was between 14.8× and 259.3×.
- Held by investors this site follows. Seth Klarman (6.1% of its portfolio), from their latest 13F filings. See Superinvestors.
- Priced at 532.8 times earnings. Price-to-book is 3.9 and return on equity 0.7%. See the value diligence check.
How has Genuine Parts' share price moved?
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Is Genuine Parts undervalued? The value diligence check
Every value-investing signal this site computes for this stock, gathered in one place: the same real numbers from the tools below, not a new score.
- Margin of safety (DCF) -28.9%
- P/E vs. its own history 532.8x · at/above its priciest point Real range: 14.8x–259.3x over 5 years (net income per diluted share from each fiscal year's 10-K, paired with the real closing price at that fiscal year-end).
- Wall St. analyst rating Buy · 3.65/5 17 analysts this month: 3 strong buy, 5 buy, 9 hold, 0 sell, 0 strong sell (Finnhub). Down from 3.68 last month.
- Earnings quality (is the profit real?) Strong · all 5 checks clean Beneish M-score −2.62 · accruals −4.1% of assets · 156% of profit arrived as cash · stock comp 0.2% of revenue · share count −0.6% a year. From the latest 10-K (year to Dec 2025) - see the Earnings Quality Screener for how each check is scored.
- Shareholder yield (cash back to owners) +3.0% net Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 3.2% + buybacks 0.0% − stock comp 0.3%, as a share of today's market cap. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count fell 12%. See Shareholder Yield Leaders.
- Capital needed to grow (See's test) Profit did not grow in 10 years Operating profit $1.3B → $1.1B, capital needed $5.7B → $8.8B, 2016–2025 (3-year averages); return on capital now 12% before tax. Buffett's See's Candies needed $0.42 per $1 of new profit, FlightSafety $3.20, a typical grower about $5. See Capital-Light Compounders.
- PEG (growth at a reasonable price) 48.3 · Well above fair P/E 532.8× ÷ 11.0% a year of growth behind it. 440th lowest of 447 stocks with a usable PEG. Lynch's fair value is a PEG of 1; a very high PEG usually means almost no growth, a very low one a profit spike. See PEG Ratio Ranking.
- Compounder lenses (4) 2 of 4 · misses capital-light, price Capital-light growth: not cleared (profit grew 0.8×, under 2×); Profit is real: cleared; Cash to owners: cleared; Fair price (PEG): not cleared (PEG 48.3, over 1.5). See Compounders at a Fair Price, which also lets you move the PEG bar.
- Value trap check Clear
- Munger's Inversion Check 1 flag
- Dividend payout sustainability 0/6 · clean
What would Buffett & Lynch say?
Buffett's checklist is built around durable, profitable businesses bought at sensible prices, and GPC doesn't clear enough of it yet. In its favor: GPC and has kept that profitability up over five years, not just this year, and trades at a reasonable multiple of owner earnings, his own term for the real cash a business could pay out. Where it comes up short: GPC isn't clearing the return-on-equity bar he'd want to see right now, carries more debt relative to equity than he typically tolerates, runs thinner pretax margins than he'd like to see, hasn't grown earnings per share fast enough over five years to impress him, doesn't cover its interest expense as comfortably as he'd want, and is trading above what a conservative discounted-cash-flow estimate says it's worth right now.
- ROE (TTM) > 11% ✕
- ROE (5yr avg) > 11% ✓
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- Pretax margin > 15% ✕
- EPS growth (5yr) > 7% ✕
- Interest coverage > 5x ✕
- Trading below intrinsic value (DCF) ✕
- Price vs. owner earnings < 25x ✓
Lynch looked for growth stories that weren't overpriced for that growth, and GPC falls short of his bar. In its favor: GPC pays a real dividend, the actual reason he bought slow growers at all, and converts earnings into real cash at a reasonable price. Where it comes up short: GPC isn't even growing at the modest pace he'd expect from a slow grower, carries more debt than he liked to see, even allowing for the extra room a large, stable business gets, and is priced too rich for how little growth is actually left in the business.
- Dividend yield > 2.5% ✓
- EPS growth 0%-10% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.6 ✕
- P/E < 20 ✕
- Price/FCF < 25 ✓
Quantitative approximations of each investor's documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates - commentary, not this site's actual ranking criteria. Buffett never published a numeric checklist: only 2 of his 8 checks here trace to his own documented concepts ("owner earnings," from his 1986 shareholder letter, and "price is what you pay, value is what you get," his case against fixed P/E/P/B ceilings) - the other 6 (ROE, debt, margins, growth, interest coverage) use commonly-cited thresholds that are not numbers he himself published. The 8 hard filters below (plus the Munger check and Graham margin of safety) are this site's real, mechanical screen and are computed completely independently of the checklists above.
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Which of the 8 value filters does Genuine Parts pass?
- Market Cap > $25B $17.5B
- Trailing P/E < 25 532.76
- PEG Ratio < 1.5 48.30
- Price/Book < 8 3.86
- Price/Sales < 7 0.70
- EPS Growth YoY > -5% -9.9%
- vs 50-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
- vs 200-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
What is Genuine Parts' margin of safety?
History tracking starts this week - check back in a future week to see how this has moved.
Where is Genuine Parts in its 52-week range?
What is the short interest in Genuine Parts?
6,613,927 shares short as of 2026-09-30 (FINRA settlement date). Reported twice a month, so this only changes roughly every two weeks, not daily.
What could go wrong with Genuine Parts? Munger's inversion check
"Invert, always invert." Instead of reasons to buy, these are reasons to hesitate, not a verdict, and not everything worth knowing about a business.
- Margin of safety, even in the bull case +24%
- Short interest under 5% of float 4.8%
- Passes most of the 6 fundamental filters 2/6 passed
- Price run-up backed by value, not just momentum +38% off 52wk low
- Debt/equity stable since 2016 0.27 → 0.87
Doesn't cover circle of competence, management quality, or accounting concerns: those need judgment, not data.
How much have Genuine Parts shareholders gained per year?
Not enough clean earnings history to compute this for GPC yet - a loss year in the window breaks the growth math rather than faking a number through it.
An earnings-based proxy, not a stock-price total return - it doesn't capture multiple expansion/contraction or reinvested dividends. EPS from GPC's own 10-K filings; dividend yield is the current trailing yield on today's price, from the same weekly fetch as the rest of this site.
What do Genuine Parts' 10-year financials show?
From GPC's own 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR): up to the last 10 fiscal years. Press any year's bars for the exact figures.
Frequently asked questions about Genuine Parts
What kind of company is Genuine Parts?
Genuine Parts Company distributes car replacement parts through NAPA stores and industrial parts through Motion. Brands and businesses it owns include NAPA, Motion and Alliance Automotive Group. This site groups it with Distributors stocks.
Is Genuine Parts trading above or below its DCF value?
At $127.97, GPC trades 28.9% above this site's neutral DCF value of $99.27 per share, a margin of safety of −28.9%. That DCF projects free cash flow for 10 years, with growth starting at 8% and fading to 2.5%, discounted at 10%; it is one set of assumptions, not a forecast. Test your own in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.
How many of this site's 8 value filters does Genuine Parts pass?
GPC passes 2 of 8. It passes Price/Book < 8 (3.86) and Price/Sales < 7 (0.70). It misses Market Cap > $25B ($17.5B), Trailing P/E < 25 (532.76), PEG Ratio < 1.5 (48.30) and EPS Growth YoY > -5% (-9.9%). vs 50-day MA (±12%) and vs 200-day MA (±12%) were not evaluated, because the moving-average checks only run on stocks that clear the fundamentals first. The 8-filter list shows every stock that passes all of them.
What growth is Genuine Parts' share price pricing in?
At $127.97, GPC's free cash flow of $5.81 per share would have to grow 14.4% a year, fading to 2.5% by year 10, for this site's DCF (10% discount rate) to match the price. This site's baseline starts at 8%, so the price asks for more growth than the baseline. Change the assumptions.
How much cash does Genuine Parts return to shareholders?
GPC's net shareholder yield is +3.0%: the cash it returns through dividends and buybacks, minus stock-based compensation, as a share of its market value. Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 3.2% + buybacks 0.0% − stock comp 0.3%, as a share of today's market cap. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count fell 12%. Its trailing dividend yield is 3.29%, paid out of 71% of its free cash flow; the dividend-sustainability check raises 0 of 6 flags. See Shareholder Yield Leaders and the Sustainable Dividend Screener.
Is Genuine Parts's P/E ratio high or low compared with its own history?
GPC trades at 532.8× trailing earnings. At the end of each of its last 5 fiscal years its P/E was between 14.8× and 259.3× (average 67.1×), so today's multiple is at or above the highest of those years. Each year's P/E pairs net income per diluted share from the 10-K with the closing price at that fiscal year-end.
Where do these numbers come from?
- Financial statements: Genuine Parts's 10-K annual report for the year ended Dec 31, 2025, filed Feb 20, 2026 (filing index). Every earlier year in the 10-year financials comes from the company's older 10-K filings, all listed on SEC EDGAR.
- Prices and market data: quotes, P/E and analyst ratings from Finnhub; daily price history and the 52-week range from Twelve Data, both refreshed weekly. Short interest comes from FINRA, reported twice a month.
- How to check a figure: click any number in the card above to see its exact source, and read the Editorial Standards for every rule behind the checks.
About this Genuine Parts Co analysis
This page shows every value-investing check the site runs on Genuine Parts Co (GPC) in one place: the 8 mechanical filters, the Buffett and Lynch checklists, a margin of safety from a disclosed DCF, earnings quality, shareholder yield and how it ranks against its sector peers. The numbers come from SEC filings and public market data, refreshed weekly, and the same rules apply to every stock on the stock list. See Editorial Standards for the sources and the rules, or run your own filters in the stock screener.