KAR Auction Services is an auto & truck dealerships business based in the US. KAR Auction Services shares (KAR) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $19.15 – an increase of 3.91% over the previous week. KAR Auction Services employs 4,080 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $19.15 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $15.44 - $22.47 |
| 50-day moving average | $19.92 |
| 200-day moving average | $18.77 |
| Wall St. target price | $23.43 |
| PE ratio | 41.3778 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.45 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $18.99 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-28) | 4.11% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 5.50% |
| 3 months (2025-02-06) | -8.88% |
| 6 months (2024-11-06) | 8.64% |
| 1 year (2024-05-06) | 3.49% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 28.05% |
| 3 years (2022-05-05) | 30.79% |
| 5 years (2020-05-06) | 37.01% |
Valuing KAR Auction Services stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of KAR Auction Services's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
KAR Auction Services's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 41x. In other words, KAR Auction Services shares trade at around 41x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
KAR Auction Services's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.34. 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 KAR Auction Services's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
KAR Auction Services's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $380.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a KAR Auction Services's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 17.74% |
| Gross profit TTM | $832.2 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 3.82% |
| Return on equity TTM | 5.64% |
| Profit margin | 6.15% |
| Book value | $12.57 |
| Market Capitalization | $2 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting KAR Auction Services to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
KAR Auction Services's shares were split on a 2642:1000 basis on 27 June 2019 . So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2642 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your KAR Auction Services shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 62.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for KAR Auction Services shares which in turn could have impacted KAR Auction Services's share price.
Over the last 12 months, KAR Auction Services's shares have ranged in value from as little as $15.44 up to $22.47. 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 KAR Auction Services's is 1.385. This would suggest that KAR Auction Services's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
OPENLANE, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital marketplace for used vehicles, which connects sellers and buyers in the United States, Canada, Continental Europe and the United Kingdom. The company operates through two segments, Marketplace and Finance. The Marketplace segment offers digital marketplace services for buying and selling used vehicles; and value-added ancillary services, including inbound and outbound transportation logistics, reconditioning, vehicle inspection and certification, titling, administrative, and collateral recovery services. Its digital marketplaces include OPENLANE platform, a mobile app enabled solutions that allows dealers to sell and source inventory. This segment sells its products and services through commercial fleet operators, financial institutions, rental car companies, new and used vehicle dealers, and vehicle manufacturers. The Finance segment offers floorplan financing, a short-term inventory-secured financing to independent vehicle dealers.
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