Cars.com Inc. (CARS): Price and Financial Metrics

Cars.com Inc. (CARS): $17.46

0.49 (-2.73%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

C

Stability

C

Sentiment

Quality

C

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Industry: Auto Dealers & Rentals

Industry

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CARS Price/Volume Stats

Current price $17.46 52-week high $22.84
Prev. close $17.95 52-week low $10.91
Day low $17.46 Volume 295,600
Day high $18.23 Avg. volume 429,652
50-day MA $19.86 Dividend yield N/A
200-day MA $18.04 Market Cap 1.16B

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CARS POWR Grades

  • Value is the dimension where CARS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 88.78% of US stocks.
  • CARS's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
  • CARS's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 34.17% of US stocks).

CARS Stock Summary

  • With a year-over-year growth in debt of -11.14%, CARSCOM INC's debt growth rate surpasses merely 24.18% of about US stocks.
  • Over the past twelve months, CARS has reported earnings growth of 44.47%, putting it ahead of 79.18% of US stocks in our set.
  • CARSCOM INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 9.64%, greater than the shareholder yield of 82.18% of stocks in our set.
  • Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to CARSCOM INC are QDEL, TWOU, EVCM, SANW, and ISPC.
  • CARS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CARSCOM INC's official web site, go to www.cars.com.

CARS Valuation Summary

  • CARS's EV/EBIT ratio is 26.6; this is 87.99% higher than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
  • Over the past 76 months, CARS's price/earnings ratio has gone down 0.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CARS.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
CARS 2023-09-13 1.8 2.5 10.7 26.6
CARS 2023-09-12 1.8 2.5 10.8 26.7
CARS 2023-09-11 1.8 2.5 10.7 26.5
CARS 2023-09-08 1.8 2.5 10.7 26.6
CARS 2023-09-07 1.8 2.6 10.9 26.9
CARS 2023-09-06 1.9 2.6 11.0 27.1

CARS'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.
  • CARS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 66.32% of graded US stocks.
  • CARS's asset turnover comes in at 0.577 -- ranking 276th of 561 Business Services stocks.
  • TYL, CASS, and VVI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CARS.

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

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-06-30 0.577 0.821 0.104
2021-03-31 0.519 0.813 0.050
2020-12-31 0.489 0.815 -1.257
2020-09-30 0.403 0.819 -1.242
2020-06-30 0.345 0.822 -1.836
2020-03-31 0.305 0.833 -1.783

Cars.com Inc. (CARS) Company Bio


Cars.com is a leading online destination that helps car shoppers and owners buy, sell and service their vehicles. The company is one of the largest digital automotive platform that features new and used vehicle listings, a comprehensive set of research tools and a database of consumer reviews. Cars.com companies include DealerRater, Auto.com, PickupTrucks.com and NewCars.com. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Chicago.


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Latest CARS News From Around the Web

Below are the latest news stories about CARSCOM INC that investors may wish to consider to help them evaluate CARS as an investment opportunity.

Cars.com (CARS): A Thorough Examination of Its Modest Overvaluation

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Yahoo | September 15, 2023

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Understanding the Factors Limiting Growth and Performance

Yahoo | September 15, 2023

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While Cars.com Inc. ( NYSE:CARS ) might not be the most widely known stock at the moment, it saw significant share...

Yahoo | August 20, 2023

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Yahoo | August 3, 2023

CARS Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results

Cars.com Inc. (NYSE: CARS) ("CARS" or the "Company"), the leading digital automotive platform that provides a robust set of digital solutions, today released its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.

Yahoo | August 3, 2023

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CARS Price Returns

1-mo -6.48%
3-mo -6.03%
6-mo -4.28%
1-year 50.13%
3-year 107.36%
5-year -34.01%
YTD 26.80%
2022 -14.42%
2021 42.39%
2020 -7.53%
2019 -43.16%
2018 -25.45%

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