CARSCars.com Inc.
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though modest expectations priced in.
Priced for a decline (~−19% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 3% a year, expectations look modest.
In its normal range: P/E 17.1 vs a 25.3 median over 30 quarters (−33% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CARS's price assumes
Cars.com Inc. trades at 17.1× earnings against 12.9× for the median Internet Content & Information name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Internet Content & Information median 12.9 · 1.32× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Free cash flow yield
- 28%
Free cash flow yield · Internet Content & Information median 10%
- Growth the price implies
- −19%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −19% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +2.0% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Communication Services median P/E140 names
- 16.6
- Internet Content & Information median P/E37 names
- 12.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $150M
- Market capitalisation
- $544M
- 3-year revenue growth
- +2.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +2.0%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $6.92 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $14.43 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $30.85 |
| 52-week range | $7.58 – $13.50 |
| Today | $9.74 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Internet Content & Information
Ranks #9 of 31 by RyuScore