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 88.23% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for KAR is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• KAR ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

KAR Stock Summary

• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -74.51%, KAR AUCTION SERVICES INC's debt growth rate surpasses just 3.01% of about US stocks.
• As for revenue growth, note that KAR's revenue has grown -24.01% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of just 7.7% of US companies in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for KAR comes in at 97.89% -- higher than that of 98.15% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to KAR, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are HRT, CNDT, SSP, PETQ, and VRTS.
• 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

• KAR's price/earnings ratio is 7.1; this is 44.75% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• KAR's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.1 over the prior 160 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KAR.

KAR Growth Metrics

Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -3.97%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -70.96%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -44.64%.

Over the past 33 months, KAR's revenue has gone down $1,085,900,000.

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.