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 1,122 729.7 585.6 - -
Change - -17.5% 36.98% -10.7% -34.96% -19.74% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 1,112 917.2 1,700 1,527 1,125 957.5 906.3 849.6
Change - -17.5% 85.39% -10.23% -26.3% -14.89% -5.35% -6.25%
P/E 146x 55.1x 10.9x 24.1x 38.1x 12.5x 9.61x 8.31x
PBR - - 2.57x 2.18x 1.51x 1.31x 1.14x 0.98x
PEG - 0x 0x -0.4x -0.7x 0x 0.3x 0.5x
Capitalization / Revenue 1.78x 1.4x 1.82x 1.56x 1.01x 0.8x 0.79x 0.77x
EV / Revenue 1.78x 1.4x 2.47x 2.12x 1.56x 1.31x 1.22x 1.12x
EV / EBITDA 5.88x 4.91x 8.73x 7.28x 5.33x 4.5x 4.12x 3.75x
EV / EBIT 23x 13.9x 31.4x 28.5x 18.7x 9.44x 7.59x 6.84x
EV / FCF 9.36x 8.43x 14.7x 11.9x 8.95x 7.83x 6.5x 5.98x
FCF Yield 10.7% 11.9% 6.81% 8.39% 11.2% 12.8% 15.4% 16.7%
Dividend per Share 2 - - - - - - - -
Rate of return - - - - - - - -
EPS 2 0.11 0.25 1.74 0.72 0.32 0.8737 1.138 1.316
Distribution rate - - - - - - - -
Net sales 1 623.7 653.9 689.2 719.2 723.2 728.8 744.5 761.6
EBITDA 1 189.2 186.7 194.9 209.7 211.1 213 220.1 226.3
EBIT 1 48.34 66.04 54.12 53.5 60.25 101.4 119.3 124.2
Net income 1 7.719 17.21 118.4 48.19 20.05 49.87 62.76 67.79
Net Debt 1 - - 444 404.6 395.3 371.9 320.6 264
Reference price 2 16.09 13.77 18.97 17.33 12.20 10.94 10.94 10.94
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.($)
12.52x1.31x4.5x-.--% 586M
15.55x7.54x16.11x0.27% 3,900B
21.97x6.45x11.53x0.33% 1,643B
31.88x14.91x23.56x0.56% 546B
13.31x3.54x8.19x1.53% 443B
18.39x5.43x16.26x-.--% 270B
18.82x1.37x9.26x1.09% 248B
104.22x13.84x74.33x-.--% 217B
21.01x2.39x12.17x-.--% 136B
43.81x5.13x33.62x-.--% 120B
Average 30.15x 6.19x 20.95x 0.38% 752.39B
Weighted average by Cap. 21.32x 7.37x 16.85x 0.38%

Y-o-Y evolution of P/E

Valuation ratios - P/E - Cars.com Inc.

Historical PBR trend

Valuation ratios - PBR - Cars.com Inc.

Evolution Enterprise Value / Sales

Valuation ratios - VE_REV - Cars.com Inc.

Change in Enterprise Value/EBITDA

Valuation ratios - VE_EBITDA - Cars.com Inc.


Year-on-year evolution of the Yield

Valuation ratios - Yield - Cars.com Inc.
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