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CarGurus (CARG) Return on Capital Employed (2017 - 2025)

CarGurus (CARG) has 9 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.09% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 13.0% year-over-year to 0.09%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.09%, down 13.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.08%, 12.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.09% in Q4 2025 per CARG's latest filing, down from 0.54% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.54% in Q3 2025 and bottomed at 0.03% in Q2 2024.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.19%, with a median of 0.17% recorded in 2024.
  • The widest YoY moves for Return on Capital Employed: up 50bps in 2025, down -13bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.21% in 2021, then crashed by -40bps to 0.13% in 2022, then grew by 9bps to 0.14% in 2023, then surged by 60bps to 0.22% in 2024, then crashed by -57bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.09% in Q4 2025, 0.54% in Q3 2025, and 0.48% in Q2 2025.