On Tuesday, Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) was -5.34% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $12.93. A 52-week range for CARS has been $9.56 – $20.47.
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When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 4.33%. With a float of $55.49 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $61.80 million.
In an organization with 1800 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 82.61%, operating margin of 7.38%, and the pretax margin is 7.44%.
Cars.com (CARS) Insider Updates
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Cars.com stocks. The insider ownership of Cars.com is 9.68%, while institutional ownership is 95.63%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 08 ’25, was worth 176,550. In this transaction Chief Product Innovation Off. of this company sold 15,000 shares at a rate of $11.77, taking the stock ownership to the 98,461 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 08 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 15,000 for $11.72, making the entire transaction worth $175,861.
Cars.com (CARS) Performance Highlights and Predictions
Going through the last 3-months fiscal report unveiled on the 9/30/2024, it has been observed that the corporation posted 0.41 earnings per share (EPS) during the time that was less than consensus figure (set at 0.45) by -0.04. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.53 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 4.33% per share during the next fiscal year.
Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Cars.com (CARS) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.82. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.05. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 5.60.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.61, a number that is poised to hit 0.48 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.21 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Cars.com (CARS)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 0.99 million. That was better than the volume of 0.8 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 76.73%.
During the past 100 days, Cars.com’s (CARS) raw stochastic average was set at 66.50%, which indicates a significant increase from 63.12% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.63 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 0.46 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $12.20, while its 200-day Moving Average is $14.13. However, in the short run, Cars.com’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $12.72. Second resistance stands at $13.19. The third major resistance level sits at $13.44. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $12.00, it is likely to go to the next support level at $11.75. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $11.28.
Cars.com (NYSE: CARS) Key Stats
There are 61,445K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 752.09 million. As of now, sales total 719,150 K while income totals 48,190 K. Its latest quarter income was 178,740 K while its last quarter net income were 7,010 K.
