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

KAR POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where KAR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.51% of US stocks.
• KAR's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• KAR ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 11th 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% of about US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for KAR AUCTION SERVICES INC comes in at -24.01%, a number that bests merely 7.75% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for KAR comes in at 96.27% -- higher than that of 98.17% 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 HRT, CNDT, SSP, VRTS, and WRK.
• 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 EV/EBIT ratio is 6; this is 56.2% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• KAR's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 18.6 over the prior 160 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KAR.

KAR Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -7.89%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at -70.96%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at -10.58%.

Over the past 49 months, KAR's revenue has gone down $2,035,000,000.

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.