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Auto Trader Group operates the UK's largest digital automotive marketplace, connecting car buyers with retailers and private sellers. Its high-margin model is built mainly on recurring retailer subscriptions, enhanced advertising products and digital tools that help dealers price, advertise and transact vehicles.
Provides vehicle-search and advertising marketplaces, retailer subscription packages, data and valuation tools, digital retailing products and related services for dealers, manufacturers and consumers.
The UK automotive retail market, covering new and used vehicles and serving franchised dealers, independent retailers, manufacturers, private sellers and consumers researching or buying cars.
Retailer numbers, average revenue per retailer, adoption of higher-value products, used-car market activity, consumer audience levels, vehicle supply, digital transaction services, pricing power and operating margins.
Automotive-market weakness, dealer consolidation, pricing resistance, competition from other marketplaces, changes in online search behaviour, technology or cyber failures, regulatory change and poor execution of new transaction products.
21 May 2026: FY2026 revenue rose 4% to £624.3m and operating profit rose 4% to £392.7m. Cash generation remained strong, with the group continuing substantial buybacks alongside its regular dividend.
Pays interim and final dividends alongside substantial share buybacks. FY2026 total ordinary dividend is 11.6p: the 3.8p interim went ex-dividend on 2 January 2026, while the 7.8p final is due to go ex-dividend on 27 August and be paid on 25 September.
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