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CARS
Cars.com Inc.
NYSE· Communication Services· Internet Content & Information· CUSIP 14575E105
$10.91+6.03%Price as of Oct 23, 00:48 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Cars.com Inc. (CARS) is listed on NYSE and classified in Internet Content & Information, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in Chicago, United States and has 1,700 employees. The company is worth $584.04M and trades at 18.2x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was $723.24M in fiscal 2025, up 0.6% from the year before. Net income was $20.05M. The share price is 20.3% below its 52-week high of $13.69. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $13.13M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $584.04M
- P/E
- 18.2x
- Forward P/E
- 4.7x
- P/B
- 1.3x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $0.60
- ROE
- 7.40%
- Profit margin
- 4.73%
- Revenue growth
- +0.70%
- Beta
- 1.64
- 52-week high
- $13.69
- 52-week low
- $7.40
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▼ -38.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $784.18▼ -21.6%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 9 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $12.20 | $17.33 | $18.97 | $13.77 | $16.09 | $11.30 | $12.22 | $21.50 | $28.84 | |
| P/E | 38.1x | 38.1x | 24.1x | 10.9x | 55.1x | 107.3x | — | — | 39.1x | 9.2x |
| P/S | 1.5x | 1.0x | 1.5x | 1.8x |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$10.54
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$12.51
Earnings growing 20.9% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$9.65
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$22.87
Median P/E of 38.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$79.12
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$20.29
Sector median of 10.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Communication Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVCEntravision Communications Corp | $6.26 | 313.0x | 6.9x | 3.19% | 5.67% | $577.72M |
| GTN.AGray Media Inc | $5.78 | — | 0.3x | 5.54% | -0.94% | $595.25M |
| SHENShenandoah Telecommunications Co | $10.30 | — | 0.7x | 1.07% | -3.94% | $570.26M |
| RSVRReservoir Media, Inc. |
About the company
- 1,700
- Chicago, United States