Price
$12.32+11.70%Social Signal Score
Analyst Ratings
16 analystsRevenue
$179.93M+10.87%Analyst Estimates
Consensus estimates, not results. Via Financial Modeling Prep.
Company Profile
- CEO
- Tobias Hartmann
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Internet Content & Information
- Employees
- 1,700
- Beta
- 1.59
- Country
- US
- Piotroski score
- 9 / 9 (Strong)
- Altman Z-score
- 0.37
Financials
Revenue
$179.93M+10.9%Net Income
$14.26M-72.5%EBITDA
$69.14M-8.3%Free Cash Flow
$15.27M-76.7%EPS (diluted)
$0.25-65.3%Shares Outstanding (diluted)
56.65M-20.9%Operating Expenses
$77.74MCash & Debt
$33.29MReturn of Capital
$37.01MRevenue by Segment (annual)
$653.88MQuote
Valuation & Ratios
Returns & Efficiency
Revenue & Net Income (Annual)
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Net Income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $723.24M | $20.05M | $0.32 |
| 2024 | $719.15M | $48.19M | $0.73 |
| 2023 | $689.18M | $118.44M | $1.77 |
| 2022 | $653.88M | $17.21M | $0.25 |
| 2021 | $623.68M | $10.79M | $0.15 |
| 2020 | $547.50M | $-817.12M | $-12.15 |
| 2019 | $606.68M | $-445.32M | $-6.65 |
| 2018 | $662.13M | $38.81M | $0.55 |
| 2017 | $626.26M | $224.44M | $3.13 |
| 2016 | $633.11M | $176.37M | $2.46 |
| 2015 | $596.51M | $157.84M | $2.20 |
| 2014 | $495.95M | $591.60M | $8.26 |
| 2013 | $418.20M | $104.69M | $1.46 |
Valuation
Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.
Seeded from CARS's reported EPS growth of -11.9% a year over 12 years.
- EPS in 5 years
- $0.18
- Implied price
- $6.71
- Return from $10.03
- -7.7% a year
To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $3.34 — -66.7% below today's price.
How sensitive is that answer?
Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.
| growth \ P/E | 26 | 32 | 38 | 44 | 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -21.9% | -24.2% | -21.0% | -18.2% | -15.8% | -13.6% |
| -16.9% | -19.3% | -15.9% | -13.0% | -10.4% | -8.0% |
| -11.9% | -14.5% | -10.8% | -7.7% | -5.0% | -2.5% |
| -6.9% | -9.6% | -5.8% | -2.5% | 0.4% | 3.0% |
| -1.9% | -4.8% | -0.7% | 2.8% | 5.8% | 8.6% |
This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.
Signal Score (90d)
100-20.00%Social Signal Score
Mentions (5)
- Newsprnewswire.com·5d ago·Neutral
Cars.com Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cars.com Inc. (NYSE: CARS), a leading marketplace for automotive sales, today announced that Trent Ziegler has been appointed the company's next Chief Financial Officer-Designate, effective October 19, 2026.
View source ↗ - Newszacks.com·6d ago·Neutral
Do Options Traders Know Something About Cars.com Stock We Don't? Investors need to pay close attention to CARS stock based on the movements in the options market lately.
View source ↗ - Newsglobenewswire.com·12d ago·Neutral
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View source ↗ - Newsglobenewswire.com·33d ago·Negative
BROAD ARROW PRESENTS ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE CARS AT ITS SECOND ANNUAL ZÜRICH AUCTION RARE ULTIMATE SERIES MCLAREN SENNA EPITOMISES THE SPIRIT OF THE FAMOUS FORMULA ONE DRIVER | LAFERRARI REPRESENTS THE PINNACLE OF FERRARI PERFORMANCE AND ENGINEERING, OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE | LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO LP570-4 SUPERLEGGERA CREATED A LASTING LEGACY FOR THE SANT'AGATA MARQUE | BROAD ARROW'S ZÜRICH AUCTION TAKES PLACE AT THE HISTORIC DOLDER GRAND ON 7 NOVEMBER 2026 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUTO ZÜRICH RARE ULTI…
View source ↗ - Newsmarketbeat.com·59d ago·Positive
Cars.com Q2 Earnings Call Highlights Cars.com NYSE: CARS reported second-quarter revenue growth and higher profitability as marketplace subscription gains offset a decline in OEM and national advertising revenue, while management reaffirmed its full-year outlook.
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Earnings
Thu, Nov 5(in 4 weeks)
Consensus estimate $0.53 per share
Typical surprise -6.2% (median, so one quarter with a near-zero estimate can't distort it)
- Thu, Aug 6$0.51 vs $0.51miss
- Thu, May 7$0.45 vs $0.48miss
- Thu, Feb 26$0.44 vs $0.56miss
- Thu, Nov 6$0.48 vs $0.50miss
- Thu, Aug 7$0.41 vs $0.46miss
- Thu, May 8$0.37 vs $0.49miss
Estimates and results for CARS via Financial Modeling Prep. Beating consensus says the company cleared the bar analysts set, not that the business grew.
Insider trading
Open-market buys and sells by CARS officers and directors.
- Bought
- $340k
- Sold
- $8.3m
4 trades
29 trades
- Mcgovern Jr. Donald A.sold
- Marks Angelique Strongsold
- Jain Soniasold
- Jain Soniasold
- Ross Jenellbought
- Jain Soniasold
- Crawford Matthew B.sold
- Crawford Matthew B.sold
67 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.
Congress trades
- Greg Gianfortehouse · MT00 · disclosed Oct 20, 2019 (40d later)Sell$50,001 - $100,000
- Greg Gianfortehouse · MT00 · disclosed Mar 6, 2019 (42d later)Buy$100,001 - $250,000
- Greg Gianfortehouse · MT00 · disclosed Jan 23, 2019 (33d later)Sell$50,001 - $100,000
- Lamar Seeligson Smithhouse · TX21 · disclosed Jul 10, 2018 (36d later)Buy$1,001 - $15,000
Self-reported filings, amounts as brackets. Via Senate/House disclosures.