Company Valuation: Cars.com Inc.

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Market Cap 1 1,112 917.2 1,256 1,122 729.7 535.3 - -
Change - -17.5% 36.98% -10.7% -34.96% -26.64% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 1,112 917.2 1,700 1,527 1,125 907.6 854.7 796.6
Change - -17.5% 85.39% -10.23% -26.3% -19.32% -5.83% -6.81%
P/E 146x 55.1x 10.9x 24.1x 38.1x 10.5x 7.63x 7.53x
PBR - - 2.57x 2.18x 1.51x 1.2x 1.04x 0.89x
PEG - 0x 0x -0.4x -0.7x 0x 0.2x 5.76x
Capitalization / Revenue 1.78x 1.4x 1.82x 1.56x 1.01x 0.73x 0.72x 0.7x
EV / Revenue 1.78x 1.4x 2.47x 2.12x 1.56x 1.25x 1.14x 1.04x
EV / EBITDA 5.88x 4.91x 8.73x 7.28x 5.33x 4.25x 3.85x 3.5x
EV / EBIT 23x 13.9x 31.4x 28.5x 18.7x 8.81x 7.05x 6.41x
EV / FCF 9.36x 8.43x 14.7x 11.9x 8.95x 7.43x 6.13x 5.61x
FCF Yield 10.7% 11.9% 6.81% 8.39% 11.2% 13.5% 16.3% 17.8%
Dividend per Share 2 - - - - - - - -
Rate of return - - - - - - - -
EPS 2 0.11 0.25 1.74 0.72 0.32 0.9526 1.311 1.328
Distribution rate - - - - - - - -
Net sales 1 623.7 653.9 689.2 719.2 723.2 729 746.6 764
EBITDA 1 189.2 186.7 194.9 209.7 211.1 213.5 222 227.5
EBIT 1 48.34 66.04 54.12 53.5 60.25 103 121.3 124.2
Net income 1 7.719 17.21 118.4 48.19 20.05 54.29 63.66 68.4
Net Debt 1 - - 444 404.6 395.3 372.3 319.4 261.2
Reference price 2 16.09 13.77 18.97 17.33 12.20 10.00 10.00 10.00
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 69,102 66,610 66,229 64,739 59,813 53,533 - -
Announcement Date 2/24/22 2/23/23 2/22/24 2/27/25 2/26/26 - - -
1USD in Million2USD
Estimates

P/E, Detailed evolution



P/E (N) EV / Sales (N) EV / EBITDA (N) Dividend Yield (N) Capi.($)
16.39x8x17.08x0.26% 4,118B
23.29x7.36x12.94x0.29% 1,849B
14.89x3.97x9.19x1.37% 494B
28.13x13.2x20.85x0.65% 482B
18.93x5.61x16.85x-.--% 283B
20.92x1.52x10.44x1.01% 267B
92.78x12.19x65.47x-.--% 192B
21.26x2.44x12.4x-.--% 139B
7.84x0.85x3.68x-.--% 109B
Average 27.16x 6.13x 18.77x 0.4% 881.42B
Weighted average by Cap. 20.68x 7.52x 16.53x 0.36%

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Historical PBR trend

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA



Year-on-year evolution of the Yield