O'Reilly Auto's Strong Performance and Growth Potential Justify Buy Ratingaccelerating inflationary benefit provides support heading into 4Q. It’s easy to see how the bulls and the bears are going to react to this print. The bulls are going to say that ORLY is clearly putting up the best in class comps, it's generating gross margin expansion, it’s a clean story and estimates should continue to move higher. The bears are going to point to ORLY’s persistently elevated growth in SG&A per store, its below the line boost to EPS guidance (the lower tax rate drove much of the upward revision) and its full valuation. In our view, the push or pull point will be how the company’s message informs the market's view of '26 EPS. Assuming that it points to these mid-single comps persisting, further modest gross margin expansion, and slower growth in operating costs, there should be line of sight to EPS of $3.40-$3.50. In this case, the valuation looks a bit less imposing.