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Dorman Products, Inc.DORMCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Automotive Aftermarket

Designs and supplies aftermarket automotive replacement parts sold through auto parts retailers and distributors.

Momentum strong 73
Mkt cap
$4.03B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
86%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$36.1M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
15.8×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+5.0 pp
WACC 9.3%
Hurdle
-10 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
117 days
3 Mar 2027
Close · USD$136.70
1D-2.0%
1W+0.5%
1M+12.3%
3M+2.6%
6M+10.1%
YTD+11.0%
1Y+4.1%
ATR %3.8%
Beta0.75
52w lowhigh12.0% off high

What Dorman Products does

Designs and supplies aftermarket automotive replacement parts sold through auto parts retailers and distributors.

Sells replacement parts to a few large chains and distributors, so AutoZone and O'Reilly weigh heavily, and wins by supplying parts that carmakers sell only through dealers, often redesigned to fix known failures. Its 2022 purchase of SuperATV added accessories for off-road vehicles, a line outside car repair.

Products and services

  • Original equipment dealer replacement parts
  • Heavy-duty/commercial aftermarket
  • Complex hardware/electronics

Customers

  • AutoZone
  • O'Reilly Auto Parts
  • NAPA/independent distributors

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Consumer Discretionary
  • Auto parts
  • Aftermarket replacement parts

What could go right

  • Aging vehicle fleet extends aftermarket demand
  • New part number introductions

What could go wrong

  • Auto parts retailer inventory cycles
  • EV transition reducing some ICE part categories

Moat: narrow (scale, distribution, brand). Broadest aftermarket SKU catalog and OE-quality reverse-engineering capability build retailer loyalty.

Headquarters: Colmar, Pennsylvania, US · Founded: 1918 · Employees: 3,871

Named competitors

Dorman Products at a glance

Size Dorman Products (DORM) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Automotive Aftermarket) with a market value of $4.03B, the 1340th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $136.70 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 10.1%, against -1.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 2.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +6.3%); the operating margin is 15.9% (peer median 8.2%).

Valuation It trades at 15.8× forward earnings against a peer median of 16.6× (9th cheapest of 19).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 4% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +14%, so the hurdle is -10 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 5.0 points above its cost of capital (9.3% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 5.6% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 3 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026DORM 113Peer median 99
Six months, rebased to 100: Dorman Products against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Dorman Products financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$2.17B$2.13B$2.01B$1.93B$1.73B
Revenue growth—+6%+4%+11%—
Gross profit$887M$876M$785M$685M$564M
EBITDA$402M$413M$357M$264M$216M
Net income$202M$204M$190M$129M$122M
Free cash flow$269M$75.7M$192M$165M$3.81M
Capital expenditure$33.4M$38.0M$39.4M$44.0M$37.9M
Total debt$523M$561M$606M$684M$848M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Dorman Products competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-30%-20%-10%0%+10%-10%0%+10%+20%5110BALKRISINDLKQ51052105161390MRF6010586030490029845101601966TYRES001233CEATLTD000599601163DORM6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Dorman Products is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%+40%20×40×5110BALKRISINDLKQ51052105161390MRFAPOLLOTYRE6010586030490029845101601966TYRESPIRC001233CEATLTDDORMRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Dorman Products is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-10%0%+10%+20%0%20%5110LKQ51052105161390MRFAPOLLOTYRE002984TYRESPIRC001233CEATLTD000599601163GTDORMGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Dorman Products is the large dot.

Dorman Products competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (DORM vs SMP vs GPC)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Dorman Products DORM$4.03B+10%+2%16%15.8×4.3%
Standard Motor Products SMP$993M+10%+6%11%9.3×-8.5%
Genuine Parts GPC$16.9B+19%+5%5%15.5×7.5%

How Dorman Products compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Dorman Products against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureDORMPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+12.3%+0.7%3rd highest of 21
6-month return+10.1%-1.0%2nd highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-12.0%-25.1%2nd highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+2.2%+6.3%8th lowest of 21
Operating margin15.9%8.2%2nd highest of 21
Forward P/E15.8×16.6×9th cheapest of 19
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)4.3%-0.2%6th most demanding of 17
Growth delivered (Del g)+14.3%+9.2%3rd highest of 17
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-10.0 pp-7.3 pp7th least demanding of 17
ROIC minus cost of capital+5.0 pp-0.8 pp4th highest of 21
EV / EBITDA10.9×6.8×4th most expensive of 13
Net debt / EBITDA0.9×1.5×4th least indebted of 13

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Dorman Products DORMUnited States$4.03B+10%+2%16%15.8×4.3%+14.3%
Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5110.TJapan$3.40B+1%+5%8%9.8×-3.3%+8.8%
Balkrishna Industries BALKRISIND.NSIndia$4.93B+7%+20%15%30.5×n/an/a
LKQ LKQUnited States$5.06B-31%-3%7%9.3×0.0%+3.3%
Toyo Tire 5105.TJapan$3.17B+6%+4%15%8.2×-7.3%+11.6%
Cheng Shin Rubber Ind 2105.TWTaiwan$2.95B-3%-1%9%20.3×-9.3%-1.2%
Hankook Tire & Technology 161390.KSSouth Korea$5.56B+5%+43%10%6.1×-13.2%+26.9%
MRF MRF.NSIndia$5.62B-4%+11%10%25.7×20.7%+14.0%
Apollo Tyres APOLLOTYRE.NSIndia$2.80B+1%+14%8%16.6×15.6%+10.7%
Sailun 601058.SSChina$5.92B-10%+12%12%10.4×n/an/a
Zhongce Rubber Group Co., Ltd. A 603049.SSChina$2.70B-19%+14%8%9.7×n/an/a
Qingdao Sentury Tire 002984.SZChina$2.62B-25%+2%8%16.7×3.4%+12.8%
Yokohama Rubber 5101.TJapan$6.78B+8%+13%15%8.1×n/an/a
Shandong Linglong Tyre 601966.SSChina$2.32B-19%+8%3%50.3×-0.4%+6.0%
Nokian Renkaat TYRES.HEFinland$2.21B+37%+5%6%27.4×19.4%+0.9%
Pirelli & C PIRC.MIItaly$8.27B+10%-1%-9%13.3×-2.4%+9.5%
Haian Rubber 001233.SZChina$1.82B+9%-4%23%25.6×1.8%+13.7%
CEAT CEATLTD.NSIndia$1.52B+6%+24%7%31.0×24.9%+15.5%
Qingdao Doublestar 000599.SZChina$1.45B-34%+390%8%n/a-2.9%+1.0%
Triangle Tyre 601163.SSChina$1.38B-21%+2%5%18.2×-7.2%+2.9%
Goodyear Tire & Rubber GTUnited States$1.26B-33%-4%3%n/a5.9%+8.2%

Questions

Who are Dorman Products's main competitors?
Named competitors: Standard Motor Products (SMP), Genuine Parts Company (GPC), Motorcar Parts of America (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Sumitomo Rubber Industries (5110.T), Balkrishna Industries (BALKRISIND.NS), LKQ (LKQ), Toyo Tire (5105.T), Cheng Shin Rubber Ind (2105.TW), Hankook Tire & Technology (161390.KS).
Is Dorman Products expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 15.8× against a peer median of 16.6×, 9th cheapest of 19 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 4% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +14%, so the hurdle is -10 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Dorman Products stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +10.1% against -1.0% for the median peer; over one year +4.1%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.