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Cars.com Inc. CARS

11 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$723.2M

▲ 0.6% YoY

Net income

$20.1M

▼ 58.4% YoY

Free cash flow

$147.4M

▼ 1.5% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Cars.com Inc. provides dealers and original equipment manufacturers with a marketplace, dealer websites, trade and appraisal tools, and in-market media solutions. Its products and solutions have attracted approximately 19,500 franchise and independent dealer customers across the U.S. and Canada. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 1,700 full-time, part-time, seasonal and temporary employees. Its product suite is organized around four core capabilities: Marketplace, Digital Experience, Media Solutions, and Trade and Appraisal. Within its Digital Experience offering, it hosts websites for approximately 7,700 dealers in the U.S. and Canada. Within its Marketplace offering, it merchandised dealer and OEM inventory to 26 million average monthly shoppers in 2025.

Written from the business description in Cars.com Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 723.2M

Revenue, FY2025 · full 11-year series below

Revenue $M Net income $M

FY2025 · Revenue 723.2 · Net income 20.1

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+3.4%

+5.7%

+1.9%

Net income

+5.2%

−18.6%

EPS, diluted

+8.6%

−17.5%

Returned to shareholders

+21.1%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.7% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

3 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 8.3% · Net 2.8%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 4.1%

Gross margin—

Operating margin8.3%

Net margin2.8%

Return on assets1.8%

EBITDAUSD 89.3M

Each USD of equity produced 4 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 86.9M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 147.4

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 86.9

Dividends paid—

Net buybacksUSD 86.9M

Share of profit433.4%

Consecutive raises—

USD 86.9M in buybacks — 433% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 1.1B

EquityUSD 472.5M

CashUSD 56.2M

Gross debtUSD 451.5M

Net debtUSD 395.3M

Current ratio1.87×

Net debt stands at 84% of equity.

The 11-year record

11 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Revenue $B	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6
Operating income $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	−0.9	−0.4	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2
EBITDA $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	−0.9	−0.4	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2
Income tax $B	0.0	0.0	−0.1	0.0	−0.0	−0.1	−0.0	0.0	−0.1	0.0	·
Net income $B	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	−0.8	−0.4	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2
Free cash flow $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
EPS, diluted $	0.32	0.72	1.74	0.25	0.15	−11.74	−6.65	0.55	3.13	2.46	2.20
Dividend / sh $	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
ROE %	4.1	9.6	27.0	4.4	2.8	−104.6	−32.2	2.3	11.0	7.5	6.8
Shares out B	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.00	·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 42 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 11 of 19 fiscal years. 46 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityServices-Computer Processing & Data Preparation

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2015