Cars.com Inc. (CARS)
Technology · NYSE
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Cars.com Inc. trades at USD11.97. We do not hold enough of the inputs to run a discounted cash flow on this company, so we publish no fair value for it rather than a number we would not defend.
About Cars.com Inc.
Cars.com Inc., an audience-driven technology company, provides solutions for the automotive industry in the United States. The company offers marketplace through Cars.com that allows OEMs and dealers to merchandise their inventory, as well as provides reputation management technology and digital financing tools. It also operates dealer websites to transform automotive retail processes; and trade and appraisal product, including AccuTrade, which uses demand data and diagnostic scans to determine the right trade-in offer for every VIN in minutes. In addition, the company offers media solution, such as Cars Social, allows dealers to target and serve native advertisements displaying real-time inventory to in-market car shoppers on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platform; VIN Performance Media, a machine-learning for media campaign, including audience targeting, real-time inventory, and ad placement across search, social, and display; In-Market Video, provides OEMs and dealers to pinpoint serious, ready-to-buy shoppers geographically; and proprietary in-market media solutions. The company serves local dealers, OEMs, dealer groups, and auto-adjacent companies. Cars.com Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
CARS passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
11 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$5.27M · 0.0% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$4.71M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$4.39M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$2.82M · 0.0% of book
- Paul Tudor Jones, TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL$2.08M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Which funds own CARS?
11 of the institutions we track reported a position in CARS in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
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