# Cars share price today (Cars.com Inc., CARS)

> Cars.com Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. CARS · Communication Services · Internet Content & Information · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/cars

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Getting worse, from the last 12 quarters
- Price: $11.56 (+7.6% in a year)
- P/E: 20.3× (lower than 64% of the last 4.6 years)
- Revenue (Jun 2026): $180 M (+0.7% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): $14.3 M (+103.5% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 15.5% (+7.0 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 4%, FY25
- ROIC: 6.2%, against a 9.5% cost of capital: −3.3 points

The main question: the share price moved +7.6% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −55.6%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. ## What is the Cars share price today? Cars.com Inc.'s share price was $11.56 at the close on 3 November 2026. It has been stalling near its high for 3 weeks. That is 9.5% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 7 weeks running. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $8 and $13, and at that close it sat 75% of the way up from that low. Over the last 9.5 years the share price moved −53% while the S&P 500 moved +217%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 18 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week. This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row. ## What dividend does Cars pay? Cars.com Inc. pays no dividend. In the last 12 reported quarters it declared no dividend per share, so there is no payout history to chart and no yield to show. Companies like this usually keep their earnings in the business, so the cash-flow sections show where that cash goes. ## Which stock lists is Cars on? Cars is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list. ## Is Cars profitable? Cars.com Inc. earned $14.3 M of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, +103.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY25 profit was $20.1 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 16.8% a year on average. That is 7.9% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $7.0 M. 1 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making. For the full year, FY25 profit was $20.1 M (−58.4% on the year before). Why profit moved: revenue changed +0.7% on a year earlier and the margin moved +7.0 percentage points. Most of the change came from keeping more of each sale. On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −4.3% and revenue +1.1%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth. ## How much revenue does Cars make, and is it growing? Cars.com Inc. reported $180 M of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +0.7% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 4th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 3.8% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $723 M. The last four reported quarters add to $726 M. FY25 revenue was $723 M, +0.6% on the year before. Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +1.1% on average, against 3.8% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate. Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +1.1%, against +0.9% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising); profit over the last 12 months grew −16.4%, against +17.1% a year (rolling over). ## How much of every $100 of sales does Cars keep? Cars.com Inc.'s operating margin was 15.5% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 7.0 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 7.4% and 10.3%. The latest quarter is above every full year in that period. Why the margin moved: operating margin changed +7.0 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +1.9 points. So the gain came mostly from costs below the gross margin, such as staff and overheads, measured against sales. ## Is Cars' profit turning into cash? Over the last 3 years, 236% of Cars.com Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $152 M of operating cash against $20.1 M of profit. After $4.3 M of spending on assets, $147 M was left over as free cash. Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year. Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason. What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building. ## Where does Cars' cash go? Cars.com Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $8.6 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 0.4% of FY25 revenue a year. Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn. Spending on assets: $8.6 M over the last 3 years. In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns. ## What is Cars' P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Cars.com Inc.'s P/E is 20.3×, in the middle of its own history: higher than 36% of past readings. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 24.4×, over 4.6 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth. Why the multiple is where it is: over the past year earnings per share moved −55.6% while the price moved +7.6%. The price did better than earnings, which pushed the multiple up within its own range. Where the price move came from: over 3 years the price moved −13.9% a year; about −31.3% a year came from earnings growth and about +17.4 percentage points from the multiple (the market paying more). The split is approximate (price return minus earnings growth). It shows how much of the move came from the market paying a different multiple. In short: the multiple is about average against its own past, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple. ## Is the Cars business getting better or worse? Cars.com Inc.'s business is getting worse. Profit and EPS growth are shrinking: profit growth is −16.4% in the latest quarter, against +2864.5% at its best in 12 quarters, with ROCE rising at 8.8%. This is based on 12 quarters of 4 measures. Why it matters: falling lines mean any ratio below that looks low should be read with that direction in mind. ## How much does Cars earn on its capital? Cars.com Inc. earned a ROE of 4% in FY25. That is up from a low of 3% in FY21. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 3.3 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses. It comes from a 2.8% net margin and 0.68× asset turnover (sales divided by assets). Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 2.8% net margin × 0.68× asset turnover × 2.25× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 4.3% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it. The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 6.2% − 9.5% = −3.3 percentage points. The 9.5% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve. The 6.2% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 3.9%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method. ## Does Cars have too much debt? Cars.com Inc. has total debt of $447 M against shareholder equity of $444 M as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 1.01× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 1.26 in FY21 to 0.99 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page. ## What is the Cars shareholding pattern? 18.4% of Cars.com Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so a large group of traders is betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 10.5 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead. It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history. Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who holds the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story. ## How far is Cars from balance-sheet trouble? For Cars.com Inc., the Z-score is 0.54. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the danger zone. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure. Why it matters: a Z-score of 0.54 is inside the danger zone, so the balance sheet is a real risk. ## How does Cars rank in its industry? There is no score against its industry: Cars.com Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Internet Content & Information. The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown. ## Which companies is Cars compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Cars in size? Cars is the 34th largest of 40 Internet Content & Information companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 November 2026). Just above it: NerdWallet, Inc., Hello Group Inc. and Groupon, Inc. Just below it: Perion Network, ZipRecruiter, Inc. and Fiverr International. ### Internet Content & Information companies close in size

1. [NerdWallet, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/nrds) $693 million
2. [Hello Group Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/momo) $631 million
3. [Groupon, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/grpn) $630 million
4. Cars.com Inc. $619 million
5. [Perion Network Ltd.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/peri) $449 million
6. [ZipRecruiter, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/zip) $345 million
7. [Fiverr International Ltd.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/fvrr) $297 million

[All 40 Internet Content & Information companies, largest first](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/sectors/internet-content-information#all-companies)

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3. Cars.com Inc. $625 million
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## What else do people ask about Cars? ### What were Cars's latest quarterly results? Cars.com Inc. reported revenue of $180 M and net profit of $14.3 M for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 0.7% and profit rose 103.5% compared with a year earlier. Earnings per share were $0.25. The operating margin was 15.5%, 7.0 percentage points higher than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Cars's market cap? Cars.com Inc.'s market capitalisation is $619 M at a stock price of $11.56. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is Cars performing? Cars.com Inc.'s share price has been stalling near its high for 3 weeks. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 0.7% and profit rose 103.5% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 7 weeks running (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Cars's stock price go up? This page does not forecast Cars.com Inc.'s stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $11.56, and it has been stalling near its high for 3 weeks. Its P/E of 20.3× is higher than 36% of its own last 5 years (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Cars in its business cycle? Cars.com Inc.'s FY25 operating margin was 8.4%, against a 5-year range of 7.4% to 10.3%: the middle of its own range, neither a peak nor a low. The latest quarter was 15.5%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the Cars story? The main question: the share price moved +7.6% in a year while yearly earnings per share moved −55.6%. The difference came from the market paying a higher multiple. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Cars a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Cars.com Inc.'s share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: whether earnings grow into a price that has already moved. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.