Copart, Inc.

CPRT Industrials Specialty Business Services

Copart, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended July 2026) was $4.7 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2025.

Revenue
+2.43%
EPS
−14.6%
Free cash flow
−27.0%

Quarter to July 2026, against a year earlier

32.61 1.55 +4.99%
Market cap
$28.8B
P/E
19.9×
Fwd P/E
18.7×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
20.54
Beneish M
−2.45
Dividend safety
n/a

Copart, Inc. (CPRT) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $32.61 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 6.8% a year for ten years.

Free cash flow after share-based pay grew 27.4% a year over the last ten years, 20.1% over the last five. The price asks for less than its ten-year rate. The industry’s median company is priced for 14.5%.

In July 2017 the price assumed 9.4% a year; Copart, Inc. went on to grow free cash flow after share-based pay 27.5% a year to FY2026.

Price implies
6.8%
Last 5 years, reported
20.1%
Last 10 years, reported
27.4%
Industry median implies
14.5%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
6.8% a year for ten years
$32.61
today’s price
Its base case
25.0% a year for five years, then 15.0%
$81.99
151.5% above today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Copart, Inc.’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Cash flow to equity
the four quarters to July 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 6.8% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs
negative is net cash
new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Against Copart, Inc.’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.99 × equity premium 4.5% = 8.8% cost of equity; weighted, 8.8%.

Use 8.8%
Equity value $78.95b ▲ above market cap $31.40b
Base case value per share $81.99 equity value ÷ 962.95m shares
Current price $32.61 market price per share
Above today’s price 151.5% upside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$23.93b 10 years of cash to equity+$50.53b terminal value+$4.49b net cash=$78.95b equity value÷962.95m shares=$81.99 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Specialty Business Services).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 19.94× 27.50× 29.53× 32% below 25.69× 22% below
P/FCF 23.24× 35.83× 48.11× 52% below 16.50× 41% above
P/B 3.25× 4.95× 6.84× 53% below 2.31× 40% above
EV/EBITDA 13.30× 19.36× 20.93× 36% below 11.75× 13% above
EV/Sales 5.39× 8.03× 8.72× 38% below 1.57× 243% above
13.43×17.66×21.89×26.11×10Y avg 20.93×2018201920202021202220232024202520262026

CPRT trades at 13.30× EV/EBITDA, against a 10-year average of 20.93× (range 12.30×–26.88×). That is cheaper than 89% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $48.64 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.