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

KAR POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where KAR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 61.1% of US stocks.
• KAR's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• KAR ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 22nd percentile.

KAR Stock Summary

• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for KAR is currently 5.43, higher than only 19.02% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 4.74 for KAR Auction Services Inc; that's greater than it is for 78.31% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for KAR comes in at 7.76% -- higher than that of 80.09% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to KAR, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BRBR, GNW, CPS, PRAA, and GCI.
• 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

• 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 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 15.96%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -68.84%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at -22.7%.

Over the past 52 months, KAR's revenue has gone down $1,175,500,000.

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
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
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

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.