CARS · Cars.com Inc. - Financials
Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.
Income Statement
| Line item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $723.24M | $719.15M | $689.18M | $653.88M | $623.68M | $547.50M |
| Cost of Revenue | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gross Profit | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| R&D | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| SG&A | $91.12M | $88.71M | $76.81M | $67.59M | $73.56M | $59.05M |
| Total Operating Expenses | $662.99M | $665.65M | $635.07M | $587.84M | $575.35M | $1.43B |
| D&A | $91.84M | $107.18M | $101.00M | $94.39M | $101.93M | $113.28M |
| Operating Income | $60.25M | $53.50M | $54.12M | $66.04M | $48.34M | ($887.33M) |
| Interest Expense | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Income Tax | $14.25M | $13.68M | ($100.34M) | $5.37M | $1.76M | ($119.29M) |
| Net Income | $20.05M | $48.19M | $118.44M | $17.21M | $7.72M | ($817.12M) |
| EPS - Basic | $0.32 | $0.73 | $1.77 | $0.25 | $0.11 | ($12.15) |
| EPS - Diluted | $0.32 | $0.72 | $1.74 | $0.25 | $0.11 | ($12.15) |
Balance Sheet
| Line item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $56.24M | $50.67M | $39.20M | $31.71M | $39.07M | $67.72M |
| Accounts Receivable | $131.94M | $133.74M | $125.37M | $107.93M | $98.89M | $93.65M |
| Inventory | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Accounts Payable | $27.75M | $33.50M | $22.26M | $18.23M | $15.42M | $16.51M |
| Current Assets | $211.59M | $214.33M | $178.44M | $148.63M | $147.44M | $178.08M |
| Total Assets | $1.06B | $1.11B | $1.17B | $1.02B | $1.01B | $1.08B |
| Current Liabilities | $113.39M | $116.89M | $145.75M | $106.01M | $94.29M | $90.37M |
| Long-term Debt | $451.52M | $455.29M | $460.12M | $458.25M | $457.38M | $576.14M |
| Total Liabilities | $589.89M | $600.38M | $680.34M | $640.44M | $640.27M | $735.54M |
| Stockholders' Equity | $472.53M | $511.49M | $492.11M | $384.43M | $366.93M | $340.18M |
| Retained Earnings | ($941.49M) | ($961.55M) | ($1.01B) | ($1.13B) | ($1.18B) | ($1.18B) |
Cash Flow
| Line item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $151.64M | $152.52M | $136.72M | $128.51M | $138.00M | $138.62M |
| Investing Cash Flow | ($49.40M) | ($24.60M) | ($97.05M) | ($84.38M) | ($39.45M) | ($16.71M) |
| Financing Cash Flow | ($96.62M) | ($115.96M) | ($31.75M) | ($51.49M) | ($127.20M) | ($67.73M) |
| CapEx | $4.29M | $3.00M | $1.28M | $19.71M | $19.19M | $16.71M |
| Free Cash Flow | $147.35M | $149.52M | $135.44M | $108.80M | $118.81M | $121.90M |
Ratios
| Metric | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profitability | ||||||
| Gross margin | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Operating margin | 8.3% | 7.4% | 7.9% | 10.1% | 7.8% | -162.1% |
| EBITDA margin | 21.0% | 22.3% | 22.5% | 24.5% | 24.1% | -141.4% |
| Net margin | 2.8% | 6.7% | 17.2% | 2.6% | 1.2% | -149.2% |
| Free cash flow margin | 20.4% | 20.8% | 19.7% | 16.6% | 19.0% | 22.3% |
| FCF / Net income | 7.35 | 3.10 | 1.14 | 6.32 | 15.39 | -0.15 |
| R&D / Revenue | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| SG&A / Revenue | 12.6% | 12.3% | 11.1% | 10.3% | 11.8% | 10.8% |
| Effective tax rate | 41.5% | 22.1% | -554.2% | 23.8% | 18.6% | - |
| Return on assets | 1.9% | 4.3% | 10.1% | 1.7% | 0.8% | -76.0% |
| Return on equity | 4.2% | 9.4% | 24.1% | 4.5% | 2.1% | -240.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 3.8% | 4.3% | 5.7% | 6.0% | 4.8% | -76.5% |
| Liquidity | ||||||
| Current ratio | 1.87 | 1.83 | 1.22 | 1.40 | 1.56 | 1.97 |
| Quick ratio | 1.87 | 1.83 | 1.22 | 1.40 | 1.56 | 1.97 |
| Cash ratio | 0.50 | 0.43 | 0.27 | 0.30 | 0.41 | 0.75 |
| Leverage | ||||||
| Debt / Equity | 0.96 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 1.19 | 1.25 | 1.69 |
| Debt / Assets | 0.42 | 0.41 | 0.39 | 0.45 | 0.45 | 0.54 |
| Debt / EBITDA | 2.97 | 2.83 | 2.97 | 2.86 | 3.04 | - |
| Interest coverage | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Equity multiplier | 2.25 | 2.17 | 2.38 | 2.67 | 2.74 | 3.16 |
| Liabilities / Assets | 0.56 | 0.54 | 0.58 | 0.62 | 0.64 | 0.68 |
| Efficiency | ||||||
| Asset turnover | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0.59 | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.51 |
| Inventory turnover | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Days sales outstanding | 67d | 68d | 66d | 60d | 58d | 62d |
| Days inventory outstanding | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Days payable outstanding | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cash conversion cycle | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valuation | ||||||
| P / E | 38.1x | 24.1x | 10.9x | 55.1x | 146.3x | - |
| P / B | 1.6x | 2.3x | 2.6x | 2.5x | 3.1x | 2.2x |
| P / S | 1.1x | 1.6x | 1.9x | 1.5x | 1.8x | 1.4x |
| EV / EBITDA | 7.7x | 9.8x | 11.1x | 8.6x | 10.4x | - |
| Growth | ||||||
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 0.6% | 4.3% | 5.4% | 4.8% | 13.9% | -9.8% |
| Revenue CAGR (3y) | 3.4% | 4.9% | 8.0% | 2.5% | -0.5% | -4.7% |
| Revenue CAGR (5y) | 5.7% | 3.5% | 1.7% | 0.6% | - | - |
| Gross profit growth (YoY) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Operating income growth (YoY) | 12.6% | -1.1% | -18.1% | 36.6% | - | -98.9% |
| Net income growth (YoY) | -58.4% | -59.3% | 588.4% | 122.9% | - | -83.5% |
| EPS growth (YoY) | -55.6% | -58.6% | 596.0% | 127.3% | - | -82.7% |
| EPS CAGR (3y) | 8.6% | 87.1% | - | - | -41.5% | - |
| EPS CAGR (5y) | - | - | 25.9% | -36.7% | - | - |
| FCF growth (YoY) | -1.5% | 10.4% | 24.5% | -8.4% | -2.5% | 51.9% |
| FCF CAGR (5y) | 3.9% | 13.3% | -6.0% | -10.5% | - | - |
| Book value growth (YoY) | -7.6% | 3.9% | 28.0% | 4.8% | 7.9% | -70.2% |
Sales by segment
From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2021-12-31.
Product / service
$623.68M totalMarketplace Subscription Advertising$518.27M · 83.1%
Display Advertising$85.17M · 13.7%
Pay Per Lead$12.35M · 2.0%
Other Major Product And Services$7.90M · 1.3%
Stability scores
Altman Z′
FY 2025 · bankruptcy risk
0.51
Distress
Private-firm variant - uses book equity instead of market cap. > 2.90 safe · 1.23-2.90 grey · < 1.23 distress.
Piotroski F-score
FY 2025 · 9-point quality
7/9
Strong
- ✓Net income positive
- ✓Operating cash flow positive
- ✗ROA improved YoY
- ✓Cash flow > net income
- ✓Long-term debt decreased
- ✓Current ratio improved
- ✓No share dilution
- -Gross margin improved
- ✓Asset turnover improved
Peer comparison
Same SIC group: Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation
Comparing Cars.com Inc. against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.