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Cars.com (CARS) Retained Earnings (2017 - 2025)

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed Retained Earnings for 9 consecutive years, with -$941.5 million as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Retained Earnings fell 58817.02% to -$941.5 million in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was -$941.5 million, a 58817.02% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at -$941.5 million, down 58817.02% from a year prior.
  • Retained Earnings was -$941.5 million for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, up from -$948.9 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Retained Earnings ranged from a high of -$800000.0 in Q1 2022 to a low of -$1.2 billion in Q1 2021.
  • A 5-year average of -$894.6 million and a median of -$1.0 billion in 2023 define the central range for Retained Earnings.
  • Peak YoY movement for Retained Earnings: surged 99.93% in 2022, then plummeted 139487.12% in 2023.
  • Cars.com's Retained Earnings stood at -$2.0 million in 2021, then crashed by 56252.45% to -$1.1 billion in 2022, then increased by 10.5% to -$1.0 billion in 2023, then surged by 99.84% to -$1.6 million in 2024, then plummeted by 58817.02% to -$941.5 million in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Retained Earnings are -$941.5 million (Q4 2025), -$948.9 million (Q3 2025), and -$956.6 million (Q2 2025).