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 "markdown": "The page is the record's research on the issuer — no analyst, no rating, no view.\n\n# SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC (NYSE: SAH) — research page\n\nAs of 2026-11-08 · us-cm-kg · record version 1\n\n## Identity and listing\n\nThe issuer is SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC, listed on NYSE under ticker SAH, with ISIN US83545G1022 and LEI 549300NTLRGJ2JCBZU03. Its security type is Corporate and its sector is 5500 Retail-Auto Dealers & Gasoline Stations. Its jurisdiction is United States, Delaware. The segment is not on the record. Its listing status is listed, not halted.\n\n## The disclosure read\n\nThe record holds 56 filings in the twelve months to 2026-11-08, across 28 filing days. The median gap between filing days is 5 days, against an exchange median of 6.0 days and a sector median of 5.8 days. Latency from the latest filing to the record date is 10 days, against an exchange median of 4.0 days and a sector median of 3.0 days. The exchange median is 64.0 filings and the sector median is 66.5 filings. The latest filing is a results filing dated 2026-10-29.\n\n## Auditor\n\nThe auditor is not on the record, because the latest annual report cover carries no dei:AuditorName tag. The auditor location is not on the record. The record holds no auditor changes.\n\n## Events and halts\n\nThe record holds no listing, delisting or name change lines. The domicile change is not on the record, because EDGAR states no dated change of state of incorporation on a filing line. The segment move is not on the record, because the exchanges' tier transfers are not EDGAR filings. The issuer is listed, not halted.\n\n## Orderability\n\nThe outcome is not determinable under rule version acm-68000/us/reasonable-basis-suitability-finra-rule-2111/r1, as of 2026-11-04. The chapter's orderability section carries no client_categories, so the outcome cannot name its client category.\n\n## Coverage\n\nThe issuer's own investor-relations page names 9 research houses: Benchmark Company, Citi Research, J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, Morningstar, Needham & Company, Seaport Global and Stephens.\n\n## Open research\n\nNo openly published research notes were found on the record.\n\n## Licensed\n\nLicensed research: none loaded. A licensed row is served only to an agent whose firm holds that licence (licensor, entitlement). No licensed row is loaded.\n\n## As-of depth\n\nThe record holds sealed filings for this issuer for the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The market's vintage is sealed, with earliest sealed date 2021-01-04. The live record began on 2026-09-12.\n\n## Sources\n\n9 source pages are named on this page; every value above carries its own source page and read date in the numbers.\n\n- https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers_exchange.json (identity.exchange)\n- https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/fails-deliver-data (identity.isin)\n- https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001043509.json (identity.jurisdiction)\n- https://mapping.gleif.org/api/v2/isin-lei/latest/download (identity.lei)\n- https://mcp.us-cm-kg.ai/events/NYSE/SAH (the disclosure lines)\n- https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/rss.aspx?feed=tradehalts (the halt flag)\n- https://mcp.us-cm-kg.ai/book/aio.json (the orderability chapter)\n- https://ir.sonicautomotive.com/stock-data/analyst-coverage (coverage)\n- https://mcp.us-cm-kg.ai/record/NYSE/SAH (the record)\n",
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