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

KAR POWR Grades

• KAR scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 80.84% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for KAR is in Sentiment, which has been heading down over the past 48 weeks.
• KAR ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 16th percentile.

KAR Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for KAR Auction Services Inc is higher than just 15.39% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• KAR's price/sales ratio is 0.79; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 17.4% 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 9.84%, greater than the shareholder yield of 79.61% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to KAR Auction Services Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be THS, JOB, BRBR, CPS, and IHRT.
• KAR's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit KAR Auction Services Inc's official web site, go to www.karglobal.com.

KAR Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, KAR's price/sales ratio is 70.97% lower, now standing at 0.9.
• Over the past 143 months, KAR's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.1.
• KAR's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 143 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KAR.

KAR Growth Metrics

• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -22.43%.
• The 4 year revenue growth rate now stands at -0.52%.
• Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 190.45%.

KAR's revenue has moved down $447,600,000 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
2021-06-30	2,290.2	411.2	92.4
2021-03-31	2,123.8	598.1	48.6
2020-12-31	2,187.7	384.4	0.5
2020-09-30	2,329.4	526.1	37.4
2020-06-30	2,437.7	493.4	25.6
2020-03-31	2,737.8	399.1	113.5

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 56.55% of graded US stocks.
• KAR's asset turnover comes in at 0.327 -- ranking 161st of 164 Retail stocks.
• MUSA, PSMT, and BNED are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with KAR.

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