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CarGurus (CARG) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

CarGurus (CARG) has 10 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.5% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 24.0% year-over-year to 0.5%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.27%, up 10.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.22%, 6.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.5% in Q4 2025 per CARG's latest filing, up from 0.19% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.74% in Q4 2024 and bottomed at 9.18% in Q4 2023.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.33%, with a median of 0.11% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: plummeted -929bps in 2023, then soared 991bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.1% in 2021, then increased by 13bps to 0.11% in 2022, then crashed by -8335bps to 9.18% in 2023, then surged by 108bps to 0.74% in 2024, then plummeted by -32bps to 0.5% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.5% in Q4 2025, 0.19% in Q3 2025, and 0.12% in Q2 2025.