Best Auto & Home Supply Retail Stocks by Growth Stability
5 Auto & Home Supply Retail stocks ranked by Steady Score — the proprietary growth stability rating based on 10 years of financial data.
Data as of 2026-08-01
Top stock: O REILLY AUTOMOTIVE INC (ORLY) with Steady Score 75.42.
This industry sells auto parts and marine goods at retail: the three major auto-parts chains (AutoZone, O'Reilly, Advance Auto Parts), boat retailer MarineMax, and online parts seller CarParts.com.
Auto-parts retail benefits from a durable structural tailwind: the average age of vehicles on U.S. roads has been rising for years, and older cars need more repair parts, so demand holds up (and can even improve) when consumers delay buying new vehicles in a weak economy. That gives the auto-parts chains real defensive characteristics within a sector that's otherwise quite cyclical. Marine retail, tied to MarineMax, is the exception here: boats are a much more discretionary purchase, so that piece of the industry swings more with consumer confidence.
- Stocks
- 5
- Avg Steady Score
- 55.9
- High stability (score ≥ 75)
- 1
- Avg Revenue CAGR
- +7.9%
Of the 5 Auto & Home Supply Retail stocks, 1 (20%) have high growth stability (Steady Score ≥ 75). The industry average Steady Score is 55.9, with average annualized revenue growth of +7.9% and earnings growth of +10.8%.
| Rank | Name | Steady Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | O REILLY AUTOMOTIVE INC | 75.42 |
| 2 | AUTOZONE INC | 71.87 |
| 3 | MARINEMAX INC | 51.2 |
| 4 | ADVANCE AUTO PARTS INC | 43.41 |
| 5 | CarParts.com, Inc. | 37.69 |