CARS - Cars.com Inc Stock Price, Fair Value and News

18.46USD-0.01 (-0.05%)Delayed

Market Summary

USD18.46-0.01

Delayed

-0.05%

CARS Alerts

Big fall in earnings (Y/Y)

CARS Stock Price

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CARS Valuation

Market Cap

1.2B

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

11.33

Price/Sales (Trailing)

1.74

EV/EBITDA

21.26

Price/Free Cashflow

8.7

CARS Price/Sales (Trailing)

CARS Profitability

Operating Margin

85.71%

EBT Margin

0.91%

Return on Equity

22.38%

Return on Assets

9.43%

Free Cashflow Yield

11.49%

CARS Fundamentals

CARS Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

702.3M

Rev. Growth (Yr)

7.85%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

0.32%

CARS Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

107.7M

Earnings Growth (Yr)

-93.17%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

-90.61%

Breaking Down CARS Revenue

Last 7 days

4.9%

Last 30 days

14.2%

Last 90 days

1.4%

Trailing 12 Months

0.3%

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CARS Financial Health

Current Ratio

1.62

Debt/Equity

0.98

Debt/Cashflow

0.3

CARS Investor Care

Buy Backs (1Y)

0.91%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

1.58

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2024	702.3M	0	0	0
2023	662.7M	668.0M	677.8M	689.2M
2022	628.6M	635.9M	644.0M	653.9M
2021	552.7M	606.2M	618.4M	623.7M
2020	600.6M	554.4M	546.7M	547.5M
2019	656.4M	636.1M	618.8M	606.7M
2018	633.0M	644.9M	654.3M	662.1M
2017	633.8M	633.8M	631.4M	626.3M
2016	605.7M	614.8M	624.0M	633.1M
2015	0	0	0	596.5M

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of Cars.com Inc

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
May 01, 2024	marks angelique strong	sold (taxes)	-163,412	16.59	-9,850	chief legal officer
Mar 14, 2024	vetter thomas alex	acquired	-	-	354,192	ceo
Mar 14, 2024	marks angelique strong	acquired	-	-	50,207	chief legal officer
Mar 14, 2024	jain sonia	acquired	-	-	60,139	chief financial officer
Mar 14, 2024	miller douglas neal	acquired	-	-	44,274	pres. and chief comm. officer
Mar 08, 2024	miller douglas neal	sold	-265,938	18.54	-14,344	pres. and chief comm. officer
Mar 07, 2024	miller douglas neal	sold	-33,725	18.5	-1,823	pres. and chief comm. officer
Mar 06, 2024	miller douglas neal	sold	-293,431	18.15	-16,167	pres. and chief comm. officer
Mar 01, 2024	marks angelique strong	sold (taxes)	-120,323	18.6	-6,469	chief legal officer
Mar 01, 2024	miller douglas neal	sold (taxes)	-449,283	18.6	-24,155	pres. and chief comm. officer

Which funds bought or sold CARS recently?

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
May 16, 2024	Pineridge Advisors LLC	sold off	-100	-3,225	-	-%
May 16, 2024	CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM	reduced	-6.02	-189,906	1,085,840	-%
May 16, 2024	Ancora Advisors LLC	sold off	-100	-6,317	-	-%
May 16, 2024	JANE STREET GROUP, LLC	added	173	758,492	1,270,530	-%
May 16, 2024	HANCOCK WHITNEY CORP	new	-	184,494	184,494	0.01%
May 16, 2024	COMERICA BANK	reduced	-7.14	-88,260	466,846	-%
May 15, 2024	Tower Research Capital LLC (TRC)	reduced	-94.99	-364,721	17,335	-%
May 15, 2024	Paloma Partners Management Co	new	-	221,811	221,811	0.01%
May 15, 2024	CSS LLC/IL	new	-	346,160	346,160	0.02%
May 15, 2024	RBF Capital, LLC	unchanged	-	-185,389	1,779,320	0.10%

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Unveiling Cars.com Inc's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 14, 2024	greenvale capital llp	7.0%	4,628,403	SC 13G/A
Feb 13, 2024	vanguard group inc	10.77%	7,135,038	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2024	dimensional fund advisors lp	4.7%	3,127,723	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2024	fmr llc	-	0	SC 13G/A
Jan 22, 2024	blackrock inc.	15.1%	9,998,730	SC 13G/A
Feb 14, 2023	greenvale capital llp	8.1%	5,428,353	SC 13G/A
Feb 13, 2023	ninety one uk ltd	4.99%	3,329,718	SC 13G
Feb 10, 2023	dimensional fund advisors lp	5.2%	3,496,980	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2023	fmr llc	-	0	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2023	vanguard group inc	10.76%	7,170,244	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of Cars.com Inc

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
May 13, 2024	4	Insider Trading
May 09, 2024	10-Q	Quarterly Report
May 09, 2024	144	Notice of Insider Sale Intent
May 09, 2024	8-K	Current Report
May 03, 2024	4	Insider Trading
May 03, 2024	SCHEDULE 13G/A	SCHEDULE 13G/A
Apr 19, 2024	DEFA14A	DEFA14A
Apr 19, 2024	DEF 14A	DEF 14A
Apr 19, 2024	ARS	ARS
Mar 18, 2024	4	Insider Trading

Peers (Alternatives to Cars.com Inc)

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LARGE-CAP
TSLA	566.3B	94.7B	14.23%	0.38%	41.6	5.98	10.12%	15.85%
GM	52.9B	174.9B	7.77%	39.09%	4.95	0.3	8.79%	13.26%
F	48.9B	177.5B	1.99%	5.50%	12.43	0.28	7.54%	33.01%
APTV	22.3B	20.1B	18.40%	-13.41%	7.46	1.11	11.06%	348.88%
KMX	11.5B	26.5B	6.25%	-0.44%	23.91	0.43	-10.61%	-1.15%
MID-CAP
BWA	8.4B	14.4B	16.35%	-17.59%	13.76	0.59	5.28%	-36.11%
ALSN	6.6B	3.1B	-5.82%	52.54%	9.78	2.13	8.82%	17.48%
ABG	4.9B	15.4B	13.81%	15.50%	8.56	0.32	2.10%	-39.62%
GT	3.7B	19.7B	8.02%	-9.26%	-5.7	0.19	-5.64%	-9328.57%
ADNT	2.6B	15.2B	3.59%	-19.11%	16.55	0.17	3.04%	1216.67%
SMALL-CAP
BLBD	1.7B	1.3B	55.08%	113.22%	21.39	1.36	26.17%	337.87%
AXL	933.4M	6.2B	14.24%	12.78%	-116.67	0.15	5.67%	-113.75%
CAAS	105.6M	573.5M	-1.13%	-36.48%	2.7	0.18	7.12%	39.36%
WKHS	75.6M	13.1M	41.18%	-74.91%	-0.61	5.77	160.69%	-5.67%
AYRO	5.7M	444.2K	-14.93%	90.00%	-0.18	12.82	-78.61%	-35.63%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Revenue	0.3%	180,176	179,606	174,333	168,176	167,068	168,201	164,595	162,873	158,207	158,305	156,553	155,530	153,295	153,008	144,392	102,009	148,094	152,187	152,090	148,207	154,198
Cost Of Revenue	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24,319	25,579
Operating Expenses	1.7%	167,432	164,671	160,015	155,842	154,539	148,390	144,696	147,488	147,266	154,243	144,479	139,875	136,748	137,111	125,329	119,233	1,053,157	147,481	599,806	147,203	158,252
S&GA Expenses	0.6%	59,163	58,835	60,186	58,153	58,297	56,515	53,615	54,655	57,094	51,867	51,948	51,309	53,211	50,714	45,776	32,036	54,922	52,560	50,789	53,740	60,343
EBITDA Margin	-11.4%	0.11*	0.13*	0.14*	0.14*	0.14*	0.12*	0.09*	0.10*	0.11*	0.12*	0.12*	0.14*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	-0.8%	-8,321	-8,254	-7,777	-8,150	-8,244	-8,442	-8,501	-9,047	-9,330	-9,367	-9,522	-9,839	-10,001	-11,627	-10,779	-7,924	-7,526	-7,785	-7,712	-7,711	-7,566
Income Taxes	100.6%	36.00	-6,455	-1,852	-93,075	1,045	6,200	952	739	-2,521	-2,565	140	-189	1,306	-35,202	22,502	53.00	-134,656	1,056	-27,869	-672	-2,470
Earnings Before Taxes	-56.6%	820	1,891	2,639	1,051	12,524	16,462	-1,989	6,284	1,819	-5,449	2,571	5,777	6,584	31.00	10,241	-24,591	-922,090	-3,054	-454,026	-6,698	-11,501
EBT Margin	-65.3%	0.01*	0.03*	0.05*	0.04*	0.05*	0.03*	0.00*	0.01*	0.01*	0.02*	0.02*	0.04*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Income	-90.6%	784	8,346	4,491	94,126	11,479	10,262	-2,941	5,545	4,340	-2,884	2,431	5,966	5,278	7,219	-12,261	-24,644	-787,434	-4,110	-426,157	-6,026	-9,031
Net Income Margin	-10.7%	0.15*	0.17*	0.18*	0.17*	0.04*	0.03*	0.01*	0.01*	0.02*	0.02*	0.03*	0.01*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	-26.5%	32,760	44,597	35,169	27,732	27,942	36,644	48,690	11,483	29,866	38,205	31,823	22,381	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Assets	-2.5%	1,143	1,172	1,103	1,086	1,002	1,025	1,050	1,051	1,069	1,007	998	1,021	1,036	1,076	1,068	1,078	1,256	2,028	2,060	2,527	2,580
Current Assets	-0.7%	177	178	189	157	145	149	155	138	138	147	162	162	158	178	154	142	291	122	130	113	141
Cash Equivalents	-20.0%	31.00	39.00	49.00	29.00	19.00	32.00	32.00	18.00	30.00	39.00	52.00	52.00	54.00	68.00	44.00	57.00	187	14.00	20.00	10.00	28.00
Net PPE	-1.1%	43.00	44.00	44.00	45.00	46.00	45.00	45.00	44.00	43.00	43.00	46.00	46.00	43.00	41.00	41.00	41.00	44.00	44.00	43.00	41.00	41.00
Goodwill	-0.6%	146	147	103	103	103	103	102	103	102	26.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	506	506	885	885
Liabilities	-2.7%	662	680	620	608	617	640	674	660	673	609	632	663	690	736	746	749	908	887	918	958	988
Current Liabilities	-25.0%	109	146	131	121	107	106	106	85.00	96.00	94.00	96.00	96.00	98.00	90.00	113	95.00	98.00	99.00	122	113	120
Long Term Debt	3.0%	474	460	430	434	439	458	483	496	499	457	471	502	524	576	559	609	763	611	631	644	652
LT Debt, Current	-100.0%	-	23.00	18.00	17.00	15.00	14.00	13.00	12.00	10.00	9.00	8.00	8.00	8.00	8.00	33.00	30.00	31.00	31.00	33.00	32.00	30.00
LT Debt, Non Current	-100.0%	-	460	430	434	439	458	483	496	499	457	471	502	524	576	559	609	763	611	631	644	652
Shareholder's Equity	-2.2%	481	492	483	477	385	384	377	391	396	398	395	385	374	368	322	329	348	1,141	1,141	1,569	1,593
Retained Earnings	0.1%	-1,008	-1,009	-1,018	-1,022	-1,116	-1,128	-1,138	-1,135	-1,141	-1,145	-1,170	-1,172	-1,178	-1,156	-1,191	-1,179	-1,154	-367	-362	63.00	89.00
Additional Paid-In Capital	-0.7%	1,490	1,500	1,500	1,499	1,501	1,512	1,515	1,526	1,537	1,545	1,540	1,534	1,530	1,530	1,525	1,521	1,516	1,515	1,513	1,514	1,510
Shares Outstanding	0.5%	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00	67.00	66.00	69.00	69.00	69.00	69.00	69.00	68.00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Float	-	-	-	-	1,318	-	-	-	644	-	-	-	988	-	-	-	387	-	-	-	1,315	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Thousands)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Thousands)
Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Thousands)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2024Q1	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1
Cashflow From Operations	-25.9%	33,468	45,140	35,398	28,041	28,141	37,220	49,011	11,922	30,358	21,777	36,607	29,257	50,362	41,750	39,237	28,737	28,892	20,934	29,795	12,366	38,389
Share Based Compensation	-6.4%	7,074	7,561	7,410	7,538	5,982	5,239	5,475	6,407	5,221	5,275	5,486	5,692	4,978	4,817	4,072	4,295	1,971	2,330	-1,071	3,348	2,981
Cashflow From Investing	92.6%	-6,013	-81,475	-5,006	-5,198	-5,371	-5,208	-5,844	-4,547	-68,778	-21,571	-4,784	-6,876	-6,219	-4,109	-3,878	-2,970	-5,755	-5,848	-6,055	-5,990	-3,963
Cashflow From Financing	-230.9%	-35,203	26,887	-9,912	-13,076	-35,647	-32,217	-29,381	-19,694	29,804	-12,644	-32,501	-23,920	-58,138	-13,691	-48,535	-156,166	150,658	-21,310	-13,506	-25,177	-31,549
Buy Backs	21.1%	9,495	7,838	6,429	9,992	7,174	9,022	16,678	18,309	5,000	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20,000	20,000

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CARS Income Statement

2024-03-31

Consolidated Statements of Income - USD ($) shares in Thousands, $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2024	Mar. 31, 2023
Revenue:
Total revenue	$ 180,176	$ 167,068
Operating expenses:
Cost of revenue and operations	29,962	29,795
Product and technology	28,085	24,101
Marketing and sales	59,163	58,297
General and administrative	22,857	18,304
Depreciation and amortization	27,365	24,042
Total operating expenses	167,432	154,539
Operating income	12,744	12,529
Nonoperating expense:
Interest expense, net	(8,321)	(8,244)
Other (expense) income, net	(3,603)	8,239
Total nonoperating expense, net	(11,924)	(5)
Income before income taxes	820	12,524
Income tax expense	36	1,045
Net income	$ 784	$ 11,479
Weighted-average common shares outstanding:
Basic	66,318	66,530
Diluted	67,291	67,747
Earnings per share:
Basic	$ 0.01	$ 0.17
Diluted	$ 0.01	$ 0.17
Dealer
Revenue:
Total revenue	$ 161,815	$ 149,843
OEM and National
Revenue:
Total revenue	15,307	13,543
Other
Revenue:
Total revenue	$ 3,054	$ 3,682

CARS Balance Sheet

2024-03-31

Consolidated Balance Sheets - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Mar. 31, 2024	Dec. 31, 2023
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 31,363	$ 39,198
Accounts receivable, net	125,670	125,373
Prepaid expenses	12,494	12,553
Other current assets	7,644	1,314
Total current assets	177,171	178,438
Property and equipment, net	43,379	43,853
Goodwill	146,104	147,058
Intangible assets, net	647,302	669,167
Deferred tax assets, net	108,647	112,953
Investments and other assets, net	20,528	20,980
Total assets	1,143,131	1,172,449
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	25,583	22,259
Accrued compensation	17,996	31,669
Current portion of long-term debt, net	0	23,129
Other accrued liabilities	65,785	68,691
Total current liabilities	109,364	145,748
Noncurrent liabilities:
Long-term debt, net	473,755	460,119
Deferred tax liabilities	8,687	8,757
Other noncurrent liabilities	69,875	65,717
Total noncurrent liabilities	552,317	534,593
Total liabilities	661,681	680,341
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred Stock at par, $0.01 par value; 5,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively	0	0
Common Stock at par, $0.01 par value; 300,000 shares authorized; 66,228 and 65,929 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively	662	659
Additional paid-in capital	1,489,525	1,500,232
Accumulated deficit	(1,008,950)	(1,009,734)
Accumulated other comprehensive income	213	951
Total stockholders' equity	481,450	492,108
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity	$ 1,143,131	$ 1,172,449

About Cars.com Inc

Cars.com Inc. operates as a digital marketplace and provides solutions for the automotive industry. Its platform connects car shoppers with sellers. The company, enable dealers and automotive manufacturers; connect sellers with ready-to-buy shoppers that provide financing tools with instant online loan screening and approvals; and empower shoppers with the resources and and digital tools needed to make car buying decisions. It also offers marketplace products, such as Marketplace subscription advertising; digital solutions, including website creation and platform hosting, vehicle acquisition and valuation, digital retailing, and review and reputation management; and media comprising display advertising, social selling, digital advertising, and in-market video services. As of December 31, 2022, the company served 19,506 dealer customers in 50 states, which included franchise and independent dealers, with digital and brick-and-mortar stores. Its customers are local car dealers, OEMs, and other national advertisers and lenders. Cars.com Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

CEO	Mr. T. Alex Vetter
WEBSITE	cars.com
INDUSTRY	Autos
EMPLOYEES	1700

Cars.com Inc Frequently Asked Questions

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What is the market capital of Cars.com Inc (CARS)?

As of Fri May 17 2024, market cap of Cars.com Inc is 1.22 Billion. The market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the stock price with the number of shares outstanding.

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What is Cars.com Inc's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

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