How to buy Avis Budget Group stock (CAR)

Avis Budget Group is a rental & leasing services business based in the US. Avis Budget Group shares (CAR) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $81.39 – a decrease of 2.5% over the previous week. Avis Budget Group employs 18,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $11.8 billion.

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Avis Budget Group stock price (NASDAQ: CAR)

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Avis Budget Group shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$81.39
52-week range	$65.73 - $188.36
50-day moving average more info button	$93.43
200-day moving average more info button	$99.90
Wall St. target price	$123.50
PE ratio more info button	7.4469
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$11.21

Is it a good time to buy Avis Budget Group stock?

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Avis Budget Group price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $81.42 from 2024-12-23

1 week (2024-12-18)	-2.47%
1 month (2024-11-26)	-24.17%
3 months (2024-09-25)	-1.13%
6 months (2024-06-25)	-26.52%

1 year (2023-12-22)	-55.33%
2 years (2022-12-23)	-46.91%
3 years (2021-12-23)	212.7575
5 years (2019-12-24)	159.92%

Is Avis Budget Group stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Avis Budget Group stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Avis Budget Group's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Avis Budget Group's P/E ratio

Avis Budget Group's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 7x. In other words, Avis Budget Group shares trade at around 7x 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.

Avis Budget Group's PEG ratio

Avis Budget Group's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.76. 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 Avis Budget Group's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Avis Budget Group's EBITDA

Avis Budget Group's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.8 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Avis Budget Group's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Avis Budget Group financials

Revenue TTM	$11.8 billion
Operating margin TTM	19.37%
Gross profit TTM	$6 billion
Return on assets TTM	3.29%
Return on equity TTM	-273.05%
Profit margin	3.34%
Book value	$-6.69
Market Capitalization more info button	$2.9 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Avis Budget Group share dividends

We're not expecting Avis Budget Group to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Avis Budget Group's shares ever split?

Avis Budget Group's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 4 September 2006 . So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Avis Budget Group shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Avis Budget Group shares which in turn could have impacted Avis Budget Group's share price.

Avis Budget Group share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Avis Budget Group's shares have ranged in value from as little as $65.73 up to $188.36. 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 (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Avis Budget Group's is 2.137. This would suggest that Avis Budget Group's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

Avis Budget Group overview

Avis Budget Group, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides car and truck rentals, car sharing, and ancillary products and services to businesses and consumers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Australasia. It operates the Avis brand, that offers vehicle rental and other mobility solutions to the premium commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry; and the Zipcar brand, a car sharing network, as well as the Budget brand, a supplier of vehicle rental and other mobility solutions focused primarily on more value-conscious customers comprising Budget car rental, and Budget Truck, a local, and one-way truck and cargo van rental businesses with a fleet of approximately 19,000 vehicles, which are rented through a network of dealer-operated and company-operated locations that serve the light commercial and consumer sectors in the continental United States. The company also operates various other car rental brands, such as Payless, Apex, Maggiore, Morini Rent, FranceCars, AmicoBlu, Turiscar, and ACL Hire and McNicoll Hire, as well as TurisPrime and RubyCa. In addition, it offers optional insurance products and coverages, such as supplemental liability, personal accident, personal effects protection, emergency sickness protection, automobile towing protection, and cargo insurance products; fuel service options, roadside assistance services, electronic toll collection services; and access to satellite radio, mobile WiFi devices, GPS navigation, and child safety seat rentals; automobile towing equipment and other moving accessories, such as hand trucks, furniture pads, and moving supplies; and Avis Budget Group Business Intelligence, an online portal complete with rental summary dashboards, visualizations, and detailed reports. The company was formerly known as Cendant Corporation and changed its name to Avis Budget Group, Inc. in September 2006.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Avis Budget Group is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 2.879% of Avis Budget Group shares are held by insiders and 101.262% by institutions. How many people work for Avis Budget Group?
Latest data suggests 18,000 work at Avis Budget Group. When does the fiscal year end for Avis Budget Group?
Avis Budget Group's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Avis Budget Group based?
Avis Budget Group's address is: 379 Interpace Parkway, Parsippany, NJ, United States, 07054 What is Avis Budget Group's ISIN number?
Avis Budget Group's international securities identification number is: US0537741052 What is Avis Budget Group's CUSIP number?
Avis Budget Group's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 126545102