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Cars.com stock: growth
CARSCars.com reported $723.24M in revenue for fiscal 2025, up 0.6% on the prior year, up 5.7% a year on average over up to five years.
Daily figure as of 13 Nov 2026
Revenue (Annual rate)
4.7%
per year from 2013 to 2025, per share 6.2%
Earnings (Annual rate)
−12.9%
per year from 2013 to 2025, per share −11.9%
Free cash flow (Annual rate)
2.7%
per year from 2013 to 2025, per share 4.2%
Growth per year by period
What reaches shareholders is growth per share: buybacks lift it, new shares dilute it.
| since 2020 | since 2015 | since 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 5.7% | 1.9% | 4.7% |
| Revenue per share | 8.1% | 3.7% | 6.2% |
| Earnings | no data | −18.6% | −12.9% |
| Earnings per share | no data | −17.5% | −11.9% |
| Free cash flow | 3.9% | −2.0% | 2.7% |
| Free cash flow per share | 6.2% | −0.3% | 4.2% |
Fiscal years at a glance
How revenue and earnings grow
- Revenue
- Earnings
- Free cash flow
Figures as a table
| Year | Revenue | Earnings | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $418.2M | $104.69M | $107.07M |
| 2014 | $495.95M | $591.6M | $88.55M |
| 2015 | $596.51M | $157.84M | $180.95M |
| 2016 | $633.11M | $176.37M | $189.45M |
| 2017 | $626.26M | $224.44M | $153.16M |
| 2018 | $662.13M | $38.81M | $149.32M |
| 2019 | $606.68M | −$445.32M | $80.23M |
| 2020 | $547.5M | −$817.12M | $121.9M |
| 2021 | $623.68M | $10.79M | $118.81M |
| 2022 | $653.88M | $17.21M | $108.8M |
| 2023 | $689.18M | $118.44M | $115.84M |
| 2024 | $719.15M | $48.19M | $149.52M |
| 2025 | $723.24M | $20.05M | $147.35M |
Revenue by segment
How Cars.com Inc. makes its money and how that has shifted. Names are as the company reports them.
- Subscription Advertising And Digital Solutions$540.8M83%
- Display Advertising$88.4M14%
- Pay Per Lead$9.4M1%
- Other$15.3M2%
“Other” combines smaller and former segments with revenue the company does not assign to a segment. Names as reported, with abbreviations spelled out for the largest companies. The company split earlier years differently. A history would not be comparable, so only 2022 is shown.
Figures as a table
| 2022 | Share 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription Advertising And Digital Solutions | $540.83M | 82.7% |
| Display Advertising | $88.4M | 13.5% |
| Pay Per Lead | $9.35M | 1.4% |
| Other | $15.3M | 2.3% |
| Total revenue | $653.88M | 100% |
Data status and sources
- Score
- Daily value of 13 Nov 2026, recalculated nightly
- Price
- Closing price of 12 Nov 2026
- Latest annual report
- Fiscal year 2025, period end 31 Dec 2025
- Source
- Financial statements, ratios and prices from Financial Modeling Prep (FMP), based on the company's reports. MEQIRI calculates the score and fair value from them.
Mandatory disclosures for this rating
- ; time horizon around 12 months
- Rated Neutral, published since 7 Nov 2026 (in the score history since 20 Mar 2026)
- Valuation signal Undervalued since 7 Nov 2026
- End-of-day prices, metrics cached for up to 24 hours
- Score and fair value are estimates from a disclosed model. They are not facts and not a price target.
- Produced by SSM Ventures UG (haftungsbeschränkt), responsible person Sven Brostmeyer, Managing Director, automatically according to the disclosed model.
- Not investment advice. Losses up to and including a total loss are possible. Personal circumstances are not considered.