Cars.com Inc. (CARS)

11.70USD -2.01% (-0.24)

Over 1M: -3.2%

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Financials Quarterly

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Revenue Gross Profit Operating Income Cost of Revenue Operating Cash Flow Free Cash Flow Net Income

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Q3 '25 — Free Cash Flow: 58.3M Q4 '25 — Free Cash Flow: 36.7M Q1 '26 — Free Cash Flow: 39.5M Q2 '26 — Free Cash Flow: 15.3M 0 15M 30M 45M 60M
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Free Cash Flow

Figures as at 2026-06-30, reported in USD. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-06-30, 62 days ago. Nothing on this page is advice.

How it scores

Five questions, each answered by the measures under it. Every figure is the company's own; the bar beside it is where that figure sits among the companies read here — the top fifth, the bottom fifth, or somewhere between. Not among all listed companies, and for a valuation multiple the low end is the good end.

Quality

How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

4.4
OE margin 16.4%
Oper. margin 11.4%
ROIC 7.6%
Accruals -11.6%
FCF margin 20.6%
OCF / EBIT 1.8×
OCF margin 20.9%
ROA 3.4%
ROCE 9.1%
ROE 7.7%
Gross margin —

5 of 17 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Valuation

What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

9.5
EV/OE 8.8×
EV/EBIT 12.6×
FCF yield 24.0%
EV/Sales 1.4×
P/B 1.4×
P/E 18.2×
P/C 18.8×
Div. yield —
EV/GP —
Fwd P/E —
PEG —

2 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Durability

How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

7.7
RPO / sales —
RPO growth —
Segment HHI —

2 of 7 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

3.6
ND/EBITDA -0.4
Payout 0.0%
F-score 6.8 pts
Quick ratio 2.0×
Debt payback 2.8 yr
Debt / Eq 1.0×
Net debt / Eq 0.95×
Cash / Debt 0.073×
Cash runway —

3 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Growth

Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

4.0
Sales/sh Y/Y +7.7%
EBIT Y/Y +56.9%
EPS CAGR 4Y +20.9%
EBIT CAGR +6.8%
EPS Y/Y -10.9%
Sales Q/Q +0.67%
Div. growth —
EPS next Y —

4 of 13 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

A measure absent from a block could not be computed from this company's filings. It is left out rather than scored as though it were bad, and the dimension is averaged over what remains. A score is measured against a fixed scale this model states; the bar is measured against the other companies, so the two can disagree — and where they do, that disagreement is the more interesting figure.