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

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed FCF Margin for 9 consecutive years, with 32.1% as the latest value for Q3 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Margin fell 293.0% to 32.1% in Q3 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 40.9%, a 2266.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 20.37%, up 214.0% from a year prior.
  • FCF Margin was 32.1% for Q3 2025 at Cars.com, up from 13.26% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 35.03% in Q3 2024 to a low of 2.94% in Q2 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 18.96% and a median of 18.53% in 2022 define the central range for FCF Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Margin: soared 1317bps in 2021, then tumbled -1145bps in 2022.
  • Cars.com's FCF Margin stood at 24.13% in 2021, then dropped by -20bps to 19.31% in 2022, then decreased by -24bps to 14.63% in 2023, then plummeted by -60bps to 5.91% in 2024, then soared by 443bps to 32.1% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's FCF Margin are 32.1% (Q3 2025), 13.26% (Q2 2025), and 5.91% (Q4 2024).