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Cars.com (CARS) Return on Capital Employed (2017 - 2025)

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed Return on Capital Employed for 8 consecutive years, with 0.13% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed rose 8.0% to 0.13% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.13%, a 8.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.01%, down 4.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.13% for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, down from 0.18% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 0.18% in Q3 2025 to a low of 0.03% in Q1 2022.
  • A 5-year average of 0.06% and a median of 0.05% in 2024 define the central range for Return on Capital Employed.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: surged 94bps in 2021, then decreased -2bps in 2023.
  • Cars.com's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.04% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 90bps to 0.07% in 2022, then fell by -23bps to 0.05% in 2023, then fell by -2bps to 0.05% in 2024, then soared by 147bps to 0.13% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Return on Capital Employed are 0.13% (Q4 2025), 0.18% (Q3 2025), and 0.06% (Q2 2025).