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Cars.com Inc.

CARS Communication Services Internet Content & Information

Cars.com Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $723.2 million, up 0.57% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+0.67%
EPS
+136.4%
Free cash flow
+14.3%
Total debt
−1.92%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

11.73 0.49 +4.36%
Market cap
$601.7M
P/E
20.2×
Fwd P/E
12.9×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
0.51
Beneish M
−3.09
Dividend safety
n/a
Overview
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Bought, $m 0.02
Sold, $m 2.10
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — 1 — — — — — — — —
Sell 2 — — — — — 1 — 2 — — —
Insider Ownership 16.49%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 601.71
Revenue ttm 725.63
Net income ttm 34.30
Free cash flow ttm 136.87
Net debt Q 413.84
Valuation
P/E 20.22
Forward P/E 12.90
Price / sales 0.90
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 4.79
Price / book 1.48
Financial health
Current ratio Q 2.00 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 1.01
Interest coverage Q 3.77
Growth
Revenue growth Q +0.67% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +82.84% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +17.11% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next year A +16.68% (at or above 15%: strong)
Revenue, next year A +0.77%
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +16.28% (at or above 15%: strong)

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 1.5×, against a ten-year median of 2.3×; over the ten years it ranged from 1.2× in 2026 to 4.3× in 2018.
P/E against its own 10 years 43.75%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 10.34%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 43.02%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 7.49%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 5.80%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
—
Annual rate
—
Payout ratio
—

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 39 51 56 33
Receivables 125 134 132 143
Inventory — — — —
Other 1 16 8 6
178 214 212 195
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 22 33 28 33
ST’ Debt 23 — — —
Other — — — —
146 117 113 98

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 1.95% 5.73% 3.42%
Cash Flow (2.23%) 1.81% 5.67%
Earnings (18.64%) 0.00% 5.23%
Book Value (14.65%) 6.79% 7.12%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q2 FY26 Estimate 0.49 Actual 0.51

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q3 FY25 0.50 0.48 Miss by 0.02
Q4 FY25 0.56 0.44 Miss by 0.12
Q1 FY26 0.48 0.45 Miss by 0.03
Q2 FY26 0.49 0.51 Beat by 0.02
Q3 FY26 0.55 — Reports 5 November 2026

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.08 0.25 — — —
’25 (0.03) 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.32
’24 0.01 0.17 0.28 0.26 0.72
’23 0.17 1.37 0.07 0.12 1.74
’22 0.06 0.08 (0.04) 0.15 0.25
’21 0.08 0.08 0.03 (0.04) 0.15
’20 (11.76) (0.37) (0.18) 0.58 (12.15)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 180 180 — — —
’25 179 179 182 184 723
’24 180 179 180 180 719
’23 167 168 174 180 689
’22 158 163 165 168 654
’21 153 156 157 158 624
’20 148 102 144 153 548
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 40 16 — — —
’25 29 26 59 37 152
’24 33 35 54 30 153
’23 28 28 35 45 137
’22 30 12 49 37 129
’21 50 29 37 22 138
’20 29 29 39 42 139
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 34 10 — — —
’25 33 9 62 31 135
’24 27 29 47 24 128
’23 23 23 30 40 116
’22 26 7 43 32 109
’21 44 22 32 20 119
’20 23 26 35 38 122
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

2.7
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Jun ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 633 626 662 607 548 624 654 689 719 723 726 +1.5% 729 745 762 +1.7%
Gross margin, % 79.49 77.69 75.95 73.23 70.37 69.29 68.81 67.46 66.32 66.72 67.10 (12.8) pt
EBT 177 122 57 (475) (936) 9 23 18 62 34 54 (16.7%)
EBT margin, % 27.95 19.51 8.60 (78.34) (171.03) 1.52 3.45 2.63 8.60 4.74 7.42 (23.2) pt
Net income 176 224 39 (445) (789) 11 17 118 48 20 34 (21.5%)
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 8.84 8.74 9.42 9.06 8.14 9.07 9.59 10.33 10.90 11.59 12.99 +3.1%
Earnings 2.46 3.13 0.55 (6.65) (12.15) 0.16 0.25 1.77 0.73 0.32 0.58 (20.3%)
Cash flow 2.78 2.59 2.33 1.51 2.06 2.01 1.88 2.05 2.31 2.43 2.71 (1.5%)
Capex (0.13) (0.46) (0.20) (0.32) (0.25) (0.28) (0.29) (0.31) (0.37) (0.26) (0.26) +7.7%
Free cash flow 2.65 2.14 2.12 1.20 1.81 1.73 1.59 1.74 1.94 2.17 2.45 (2.2%)
Book value 33.77 23.43 23.14 17.03 5.06 5.79 5.64 7.37 7.75 7.57 7.94 (15.3%)
Shares, m 72 72 70 67 67 69 68 67 66 62 60 (1.5%)
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 8.68 9.25 38.39 0.00 0.00 96.17 55.36 10.32 23.74 38.13 20.22 28.0
P/S 2.79 3.32 2.28 1.35 1.39 1.77 1.44 1.78 1.59 1.05 0.90 1.9
P/B 0.73 1.24 0.93 0.72 2.23 2.78 2.46 2.49 2.24 1.61 1.48 1.7
EV/Sales 2.78 4.21 3.29 2.39 2.33 2.46 2.12 2.42 2.19 1.63 1.51 2.6
EV/FCF 8.66 17.21 14.59 18.05 10.47 12.90 12.73 14.42 12.26 8.72 7.98 13.0
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 199 186 164 101 139 138 129 137 153 152 152 (3.0%)
Capex (10) (33) (14) (21) (17) (19) (20) (21) (24) (16) (15) +6.1%
Free cash flow 190 153 149 80 122 119 109 116 128 135 137 (3.7%)
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 48 52 43 24 88 53 43 33 97 98 97 +8.4%
Net debt (9) 558 667 629 516 427 441 444 405 395 414 n/m
Shareholders’ equity 2,417 1,679 1,627 1,141 340 398 384 492 511 473 444 (16.6%)
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 7.03 8.87 1.52 (19.24) (50.85) 1.04 1.69 10.78 4.22 1.84 3.30 (5.2) pt
ROIC 4.58 3.75 2.29 (15.75) (64.76) 3.66 5.00 3.61 3.65 4.34 6.05 (0.2) pt
ROE 8.61 10.96 2.35 (32.18) (106.55) 2.92 4.40 27.02 9.60 4.08 7.40 (4.5) pt
People
People Employees 1,275 1,100 1,400 1,500 1,500 1,600 1,700 1,700 1,800 1,700 — +3.2%
Revenue/emp, $m 0.50 0.57 0.47 0.40 0.37 0.39 0.38 0.41 0.40 0.43 — (1.7%)
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Cars.com Inc. vs peers in Internet Content & Information (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
TBLA Taboola.com Ltd. $936.1M 8.4× 7.8× +2.44% (above 0%: growing) n/m −49.31% (below 0%: shrinking) 29.25% 1.52% Compare
MAX MediaAlpha, Inc. $873.1M 8.4× 9.3× +25.93% (above 0%: growing) n/m +63.67% (above 0%: growing) 14.26% 6.30% Compare
NXDR Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. $866.5M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +14.53% (above 0%: growing) n/m +210.20% (above 0%: growing) 84.61% (7.60%) Compare
EVER EverQuote, Inc. $828.5M 7.4× 11.7× +24.55% (above 0%: growing) +37.50% (above 0%: growing) −4.53% (below 0%: shrinking) 97.77% 12.04% Compare
BMBL Bumble Inc. $800.4M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −15.19% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −24.56% (below 0%: shrinking) 74.35% (53.20%) Compare
NRDS NerdWallet, Inc. $714.7M 12.3× 12.7× +5.56% (above 0%: growing) −36.36% (below 0%: shrinking) +186.26% (above 0%: growing) 93.21% 3.55% Compare
GRPN Groupon, Inc. $640.5M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −0.82% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −40.36% (below 0%: shrinking) 90.95% (0.58%) Compare
CARS Cars.com Inc. $601.7M 19.4× 12.9× +0.67% (above 0%: growing) +136.36% (above 0%: growing) +14.30% (above 0%: growing) 68.34% 15.49%
MOMO Hello Group Inc. Sponsored ADR $454.2M 4.4× 5.2× +0.16% (above 0%: growing) n/m +193.28% (above 0%: growing) 35.67% 9.57% Compare
Median of peers $814.5M 8.4× 9.3× +4.00% — +29.57% 79.48% 2.53%

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Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 17 April 2026

Chief executive’s pay

Year Total pay Actually paid $100 invested
2025 7.43m (483.17k) 107.96
2024 9.53m 2.06m 153.36
2023 7.18m 6.34m 167.88
2022 6.37m (2.37m) 121.86
2021 6.99m 9.16m 142.39

Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together 3.36%
FMR LLC 17.10%
Blackrock, Inc. 7.20%
The Linda Ahmed Declaration of Trust 6.00%
Pale Fire Capital SICAV a.s. 5.90%
Dimensional Fund Advisors 5.50%
Total pay is as the Summary Compensation Table states it; actually paid revalues the year’s share awards at its end, as the SEC’s pay-versus-performance rule asks. $100 invested is what $100 in the company’s shares at the start of the earliest year shown was worth at each year’s end. Ownership is the proxy’s own table: the directors and officers as a group, and every holder of 5% or more. Read the proxy statement

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