KAR Auction Services, Inc (KAR): Price and Financial Metrics

KAR POWR Grades

• KAR scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 98.47% of US stocks.
• KAR's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• KAR's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 29.13% of US stocks).

KAR Stock Summary

• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -75.28%, KAR AUCTION SERVICES INC's debt growth rate surpasses just 2.82% of about US stocks.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, KAR AUCTION SERVICES INC is reporting a growth rate of 184.79%; that's higher than 92.5% of US stocks.
• KAR AUCTION SERVICES INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 105.29%, greater than the shareholder yield of 97.83% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to KAR, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are SSP, CMLS, SIDU, NPO, and THRY.
• Visit KAR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.karglobal.com.

KAR Valuation Summary

• KAR's price/sales ratio is 1.1; this is 37.5% higher than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• KAR's price/earnings ratio has moved up 47.5 over the prior 164 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KAR.

KAR Growth Metrics

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -72.39%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at -16.32%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -44.64%.

KAR's revenue has moved down $594,200,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows KAR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	1,696	-361.5	209.2
2022-06-30	1,838.2	-183.3	214
2022-03-31	2,039.4	188.7	15.3
2021-12-31	2,251.6	413.2	66.5
2021-09-30	2,231.8	305.1	44.3
2021-06-30	2,290.2	411.2	92.4

KAR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• KAR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 58.6% of graded US stocks.
• KAR's asset turnover comes in at 0.316 -- ranking 162nd of 165 Retail stocks.
• MUSA, ROST, and NSIT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with KAR.

The table below shows KAR's key quality metrics over time.