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 1,122 729.7 568 - -
Change - -17.5% 36.98% -10.7% -34.96% -22.16% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 1,112 917.2 1,700 1,527 1,125 940.3 887.4 829.2
Change - -17.5% 85.39% -10.23% -26.3% -16.42% -5.62% -6.55%
P/E 146x 55.1x 10.9x 24.1x 38.1x 11.1x 8.09x 7.99x
PBR - - 2.57x 2.18x 1.51x 1.27x 1.1x 0.95x
PEG - 0x 0x -0.4x -0.7x 0x 0.2x 6.11x
Capitalization / Revenue 1.78x 1.4x 1.82x 1.56x 1.01x 0.78x 0.76x 0.74x
EV / Revenue 1.78x 1.4x 2.47x 2.12x 1.56x 1.29x 1.19x 1.09x
EV / EBITDA 5.88x 4.91x 8.73x 7.28x 5.33x 4.4x 4x 3.65x
EV / EBIT 23x 13.9x 31.4x 28.5x 18.7x 9.13x 7.32x 6.68x
EV / FCF 9.36x 8.43x 14.7x 11.9x 8.95x 7.69x 6.37x 5.84x
FCF Yield 10.7% 11.9% 6.81% 8.39% 11.2% 13% 15.7% 17.1%
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 10.61 10.61 10.61
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 (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
11.14x1.29x4.4x-.--% 568M
15.16x4.04x9.36x1.34% 503B
20.01x5.93x17.81x-.--% 299B
21.68x2.48x12.61x-.--% 141B
3.2x88.24x2.46x0.13% 115B
36.89x4.3x28.14x-.--% 105B
28.49x5.51x15.47x-.--% 89.26B
9.96x7.15x85.96x0.69% 85.14B
72.53x4.28x20.38x-.--% 81.26B
195.86x3.05x88.96x-.--% 32.13B
Average 41.49x 12.63x 28.56x 0.22% 145.11B
Weighted average by Cap. 25.15x 11.21x 19.48x 0.52%

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

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