CARGCarGurus, Inc.
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in, cheap against its own history, and cheap vs its sector.
Priced for a decline (~−5% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 7% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 15.7 vs a 51.2 median over 27 quarters (−69% vs median).
Sector median 16.2× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CARG's price assumes
CarGurus, Inc. trades at 15.7× earnings against 12.6× for the median Auto & Truck Dealerships name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 12.6 · 1.25× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.89
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 11%
Free cash flow yield · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 5.9%
- Growth the price implies
- −5.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −5.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +7.1% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 10.6
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 9.67
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 2.77
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
- 17.8
- Auto & Truck Dealerships median P/E15 names
- 12.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $315M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.80B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −6.5%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +7.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 15.7× today against a 51.2× median |
| 52-week range | $26.96 – $39.03 |
| Today | $28.87 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.