O'Reilly Automotive Stock-Based Comp increased by 10.1% to $8.82M in Q1 2026 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 4.4%, from $8.44M to $8.82M. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Stock-Based Comp shows an upward trend with a 9.2% CAGR.
An increase may signal a strategy to preserve cash or align employee interests with shareholders, but it also results in share dilution.
Stock-based compensation is a non-cash expense where employees and executives are rewarded with equity or stock options...
High-growth technology firms often have higher stock-based compensation as a percentage of revenue compared to mature industrial firms.
stock_based_compensation| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | Q1 '26 | |
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| Value | $6.28M | $5.97M | $6.11M | $6.53M | $6.17M | $6.21M | $7.55M | $7.44M | $7.14M | $7.38M | $5.56M | $7.02M | $7.21M | $7.37M | $7.33M | $8.44M | $10.37M | $8.30M | $8.01M | $8.82M |
| QoQ Change | — | -5.0% | +2.4% | +6.9% | -5.6% | +0.7% | +21.5% | -1.5% | -4.0% | +3.4% | -24.6% | +26.2% | +2.6% | +2.3% | -0.5% | +15.2% | +22.8% | -20.0% | -3.5% | +10.1% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | -1.8% | +4.1% | +23.4% | +13.8% | +15.7% | +18.8% | -26.3% | -5.6% | +1.0% | -0.1% | +31.8% | +20.3% | +43.9% | +12.5% | +9.2% | +4.4% |