Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) on Friday, plunged -0.11% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $17.66. Within the past 52 weeks, CARS’s price has moved between $15.05 and $21.24.
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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 3.60% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -54.29%. With a float of $59.14 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $65.02 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 1700 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 67.41%, operating margin of 6.77%, and the pretax margin is 6.08%.
Cars.com (CARS) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Auto & Truck Dealerships industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Cars.com is 8.65%, while institutional ownership is 91.03%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 02 ’24, was worth 218,152. In this transaction Director of this company sold 10,990 shares at a rate of $19.85, taking the stock ownership to the 90,973 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 02 ’24, when Company’s Director proposed sale 10,990 for $19.80, making the entire transaction worth $217,603.
Cars.com (CARS) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.62 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -54.29% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 23.30% during the next five years compared to 25.84% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) Trading Performance Indicators
Cars.com (CARS) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.79 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.59. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.00.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.58, a number that is poised to hit 0.56 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.33 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Cars.com (CARS)
Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) saw its 5-day average volume 0.37 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 0.41 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 89.92%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.54.
During the past 100 days, Cars.com’s (CARS) raw stochastic average was set at 47.79%, which indicates a significant decrease from 83.38% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.35% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 33.12% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $18.24, while its 200-day Moving Average is $17.95. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $17.90 in the near term. At $18.15, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $18.38. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $17.42, it is likely to go to the next support level at $17.19. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $16.94.
Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 1.14 billion based on 64,739K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 689,180 K and income totals 118,440 K. The company made 179,650 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 18,720 K in sales during its previous quarter.
