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Cars.com (CARS) EBT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed EBT Margin for 9 consecutive years, with 67.32% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, EBT Margin rose 5366.0% to 67.32% in Q3 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 36.3%, a 2468.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.96%, down 1092.0% from a year prior.
  • EBT Margin was 67.32% for Q3 2025 at Cars.com, up from 5.58% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBT Margin ranged from a high of 67.32% in Q3 2025 to a low of 1.21% in Q3 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 9.51% and a median of 6.25% in 2022 define the central range for EBT Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for EBT Margin: soared 61544bps in 2021, then plummeted -916bps in 2023.
  • Cars.com's EBT Margin stood at 2.57% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 359bps to 11.78% in 2022, then tumbled by -78bps to 2.62% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 533bps to 16.57% in 2024, then soared by 306bps to 67.32% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's EBT Margin are 67.32% (Q3 2025), 5.58% (Q2 2025), and 16.57% (Q4 2024).