Kerrigan Advisors is pleased to share the results of our 3rd annual Kerrigan OEM Survey for 2025, designed to gauge OEM executives’ perspectives on the franchise system, dealership financial performance, electric vehicle (EV) sales and China’s growing influence on US automotive retail. This one-of-a-kind survey provides a critical window into the perspectives of OEM executives whose views are not often shared publicly in the industry.
The results of the 2025 Kerrigan OEM Survey reveal a largely positive outlook for the franchise dealership model, with OEM executives expecting dealership valuations and profits to remain strong. The survey indicates growing acceptance of dealers’ leading role in customer relationships, even as OEMs plan to consolidate their networks and increase their facility requirements. While EV adoption is expected to rise, OEMs acknowledge a slower-than-anticipated transition and express increasing concern over China’s expanding influence in the global automotive market. Overall, OEMs remain confident in the franchise system’s critical role in a rapidly evolving US auto retail marketplace.
Hear Erin Kerrigan preview the 2025 Kerrigan OEM Survey report in the below video.
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Kerrigan Advisors is the leading sell-side advisor and thought partner to auto dealers nationwide. Since its founding in 2014, the firm has led the industry with the sale of more than 290 dealerships generating more than $9 billion in client proceeds, including two of the largest transactions in auto retail history – the sale of Jim Koons Automotive Companies to Asbury Automotive Group and Leith Automotive to Holman. The firm advises the industry’s leading dealership groups, enhancing value through the lifecycle of growing, operating and, when the time is right, selling their businesses. Led by a team of veteran industry experts with backgrounds in investment banking, private equity, accounting, finance and real estate, Kerrigan Advisors is the only firm in auto retail exclusively dedicated to sell-side advisory, providing its clients the assurance of a conflict-free approach.
Kerrigan Advisors monitors conditions in the buy/sell market and publishes an in-depth analysis each quarter in The Blue Sky Report®, the industry authority on dealership buy/sell market trends and valuations and includes Kerrigan Advisors’ signature blue sky charts, multiples and analysis for each franchise in the luxury and non-luxury segments. To download a preview of the report, click here. The firm also releases The Kerrigan Index™ comprised of the seven publicly traded auto retail companies with operations focused on the US market. The Kerrigan Auto Retail Index is designed to track dealership valuation trends, while also providing key insights into factors influencing auto retail. To access The Kerrigan Index™, click here. To read the 2024 Kerrigan Dealer Survey, click here. To read the 2024 Kerrigan OEM Survey, click here. Kerrigan Advisors also is the co-author of NADA’s Guide to Buying and Selling a Dealership.
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