CARS
Cars.com Inc.
NYSE Communication Services United States
9,70 $US
-3.29% today
-19.44% YTD · -22.71% 1Y
2
Insider transactions
SEC Form 4 · AMF · BaFin — rolling 90 days
16
Hedge funds tracked
Latest available SEC 13F filings
53
/ 100
MIXED

Analysis Cars.com Inc. (CARS) — Kairos Score 53/100

Composite score aggregating 8 smart money dimensions: insiders (SEC/AMF/BaFin), hedge funds, politicians & gurus, price momentum, valuation, analyst consensus, financial health, earnings momentum. The higher the score, the more favorable the institutional signals consensus.

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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.

Key info

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CEO
Mr. Tobias Hartmann
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HQ
300 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1000, Chicago, IL, 60606, United States
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Employees
1 700
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Market cap
527 029 540,00 $US
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P/E
15.4
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Dividend yield
—

🕴️ Insider activity (90 days)

2 transactions — 0 buys and 2 sales reported by Cars.com Inc. executives.

MJ
McGovern Jr. Donald A.
2026-08-20
Sell
MA
Marks Angelique Strong
Chief Legal Officer · 2026-08-17
Sell

🏦 Hedge Funds

16 institutional funds report a position on CARS in their latest SEC quarterly filing.

FMR LLC
VANGUARD GROUP INC
BlackRock, Inc.
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

📰 Recent news

15 recent articles on CARS.

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