Cars-com is an auto & truck dealerships business based in the US. Cars-com shares (CARS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $11.90 – an increase of 0.76% over the previous week. Cars-com employs 1,800 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $719.2 million.
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| Latest market close | $11.90 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $9.87 - $21.24 |
| 50-day moving average | $12.47 |
| 200-day moving average | $16.43 |
| Wall St. target price | $17.86 |
| PE ratio | 16.4028 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.72 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $11.9 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | 0.76% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 11.01% |
| 3 months (2025-02-04) | -33.07% |
| 6 months (2024-11-04) | -25.06% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | -30.37% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-03) | -38.60% |
| 3 years (2022-05-03) | 5.40% |
| 5 years (2020-05-04) | 140.40% |
Valuing Cars-com stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Cars-com's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Cars-com's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 16x. In other words, Cars-com shares trade at around 16x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Cars-com's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.22. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Cars-com's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Cars-com's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $160.7 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Cars-com's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $719.2 million |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.96% |
| Gross profit TTM | $480.9 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 2.93% |
| Return on equity TTM | 9.6% |
| Profit margin | 6.7% |
| Book value | $7.94 |
| Market Capitalization | $754 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Cars-com to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Cars-com's shares have ranged in value from as little as $9.87 up to $21.24. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Cars-com's is 1.926. This would suggest that Cars-com's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Cars. com Inc. , an audience-driven technology company, provides solutions for the automotive industry in the United States. The company offers cars commerce platforms, such as Marketplace, allowing OEMs and dealers to merchandise their inventory and allowing consumers to add and save vehicles to virtual garage and track the Cars. com market value of current vehicle, as well as provides reputation management technology and digital financing tools and access to in-market consumers who are ready to trade-in its vehicle for a new one. It also provides website creation and platform hosting; digital retailing solutions; and trade and appraisal product, including AccuTrade, uses real-time market data and diagnostic scans to determine the right trade-in offer for every VIN in minutes. In addition, the company offers Cars Commerce Media Network products comprising Cars Social, allows dealers to target and serve native advertisements displaying real-time inventory to in-market car shoppers on Facebook and Instagram; VIN Performance Media, a machine-learning for media campaign, including audience targeting, real-time inventory, and ad placement across search, social, and display; In-Market Video, provides OEMs and dealers to pinpoint serious, ready-to-buy shoppers geographically; and In-Market Display, enable dealers and OEMs to extend reach and access audience of in-market car shoppers.
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