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Cars.com (CARS) Return on Assets (2017 - 2025)

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed Return on Assets for 9 consecutive years, with 0.1% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Assets rose 2.0% to 0.1% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.1%, a 2.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.01%, down 6.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Assets was 0.1% for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, down from 0.15% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Assets ranged from a high of 0.15% in Q3 2025 to a low of 0.08% in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 0.02% and a median of 0.03% in 2022 define the central range for Return on Assets.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Assets: soared 73bps in 2021, then decreased -11bps in 2023.
  • Cars.com's Return on Assets stood at 0.03% in 2021, then increased by 5bps to 0.03% in 2022, then tumbled by -371bps to 0.08% in 2023, then surged by 191bps to 0.07% in 2024, then soared by 35bps to 0.1% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Return on Assets are 0.1% (Q4 2025), 0.15% (Q3 2025), and 0.06% (Q2 2025).