CARS · XBRL financial data
Cars.com financial statements, every fiscal year
The same tables from 6 filings, lined up. Matched by XBRL tag: renamed lines keep their history.
How these numbers work
- Every number comes from the company's XBRL financial data filed with the SEC, and each one links to its filing.
- Lines are matched by XBRL tag, so a line renamed between filings keeps its history.
- * marks a quarter worked out from the filing totals: the 10-K year minus the first three quarters, or a year-to-date total minus the earlier one. Fourth-quarter earnings per share is fourth-quarter net income over the fourth-quarter weighted shares.
- 0 means a filing states zero; a dash (—) means no filing states that number.
- “year only” means the 10-K gives the full year but not the quarters needed to work out the fourth. A worked-out quarter of revenue, cost of revenue or operating cash flow more than twice the company's largest quarter of the two years before is shown this way too.
- Gross profit is shown as the company reports it; a worked-out quarter must equal revenue less cost of revenue for that quarter, or it is a dash.
- Operating income can be above gross profit when the company books other operating income between the two, shown on its own line.
- Shares outstanding come from each filing's cover page, as of the date printed there.
- Quarters are fiscal: Q2 FY27 is the second quarter of the company's fiscal 2027.
Income statement
CSVFiscal years (CARS's year ends in late December)
| In millions of dollars | Dec 31, 2020 | Dec 31, 2021 | Dec 31, 2022 | Dec 31, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue from contracts with customers | 548 | 624 | 654 | 689 | 719 | 723 |
| General and administrative | 59 | 74 | 68 | 77 | 89 | 91 |
| Total operating expenses | 1,435 | 575 | 588 | 635 | 666 | 663 |
| Operating income (loss) | (887) | 48 | 66 | 54 | 53 | 60 |
| Other income (expense) | (11) | (0) | (8) | (4) | 41 | 4 |
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (119) | 2 | 5 | (100) | 14 | 14 |
| Net income (loss) | (817) | 8 | 17 | 118 | 48 | 20 |
| Earnings per share, basic USD per share | (12.15) | 0.11 | 0.25 | 1.77 | 0.73 | 0.32 |
| Earnings per share, diluted USD per share | (12.15) | 0.11 | 0.25 | 1.74 | 0.72 | 0.32 |
| Weighted average shares, basic millions of shares | 67 | 69 | 68 | 67 | 66 | 62 |
| Weighted average shares, diluted millions of shares | 67 | 71 | 70 | 68 | 67 | 63 |
Balance sheet
CSVFiscal years (CARS's year ends in late December)
| In millions of dollars | Dec 31, 2020 | Dec 31, 2021 | Dec 31, 2022 | Dec 31, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | 68 | 39 | 32 | 39 | 51 | 56 |
| Accounts receivable | 94 | 99 | 108 | 125 | 134 | 132 |
| Total current assets | 178 | 147 | 149 | 178 | 214 | 212 |
| Property and equipment, net | 41 | 43 | 45 | 44 | 41 | 35 |
| Right-of-use asset | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 16 |
| Goodwill | 0 | 26 | 103 | 147 | 143 | 167 |
| Total assets | 1,076 | 1,007 | 1,025 | 1,172 | 1,112 | 1,062 |
| Accounts payable | 17 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 33 | 28 |
| Current portion of long-term debt | 8 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 0 | — |
| Total current liabilities | 90 | 94 | 106 | 146 | 117 | 113 |
| Long-term debt | 576 | 457 | 458 | 460 | 455 | 452 |
| Lease liability, non-current | 31 | 29 | 27 | 25 | 17 | 14 |
| Total liabilities | 736 | 640 | 640 | 680 | 600 | 590 |
| Accumulated deficit | (1,184) | (1,176) | (1,128) | (1,010) | (962) | (941) |
| Total stockholders' equity | 340 | 367 | 384 | 492 | 511 | 473 |
| Total liabilities and equity | 1,076 | 1,007 | 1,025 | 1,172 | 1,112 | 1,062 |
| Common shares outstanding (cover page) millions of shares | 67 | 69 | 66 | 66 | 64 | 59 |
Cash flows
CSVFiscal years (CARS's year ends in late December)
| In millions of dollars | Dec 31, 2020 | Dec 31, 2021 | Dec 31, 2022 | Dec 31, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | Dec 31, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net income (loss) | (817) | 8 | 17 | 118 | 48 | 20 |
| Stock-based compensation | 15 | 21 | 22 | 28 | 31 | 31 |
| Net cash from operating activities | 139 | 138 | 129 | 137 | 153 | 152 |
| Purchases of property and equipment | 17 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Net cash from investing activities | (17) | (39) | (84) | (97) | (25) | (49) |
| Share repurchases | 0 | 0 | 49 | 31 | 49 | 87 |
| Repayments of long-term debt | 616 | 120 | 41 | — | — | — |
| Net cash from financing activities | (68) | (127) | (51) | (32) | (116) | (97) |
| Net change in cash | 54 | (29) | (7) | 7 | 11 | 6 |
Compare with peers
SIC 7374 and related industry codes, similar size. Each row is the latest quarter reported.
How peers are chosen
- SIC 7374 and related industry codes with public float (or, where float is missing, quarterly revenue) between 0.2x and 5x the company's.
- Each row is the latest quarter the company has reported, named in the Quarter column; when that filing is a 10-K, it is the fourth quarter, never the full year.
- * marks a quarter worked out from the filing totals: for a 10-Q, the year-to-date total less the earlier one.
- A cell reading “not reported” means the filings give no figure for that quarter alone.
| Company | Cash ($M) | Revenue, quarter ($M) | Operating cash flow, quarter ($M) | Shares outstanding | Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cars.com | 33 | 180 | 16* | 53.5M | 10-QJun 30, 2026 |
| Yext | 87 | 111 | 7.9* | 99.0M | 10-QJul 31, 2026 |
| Jamf Holding | 547 | 183 | 66* | 133.2M | 10-QSep 30, 2025 |
| EverQuote | 229 | 218 | 40* | not reported | 10-QSep 30, 2026 |
| Healthstream | 46 | 84 | 13* | 29.2M | 10-QJun 30, 2026 |
| Grid Dynamics Holdings | 304 | 114 | 16* | 80.4M | 10-QSep 30, 2026 |
| Appian | 121 | 203 | 12* | 71.8M | 10-QJun 30, 2026 |
| PDF Solutions | 115 | not reported | 16* | 42.2M | 10-QJun 30, 2026 |
| OneSpan | 51 | 64 | 16* | 36.9M | 10-QSep 30, 2026 |
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