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Cars.com (CARS) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed Return on Equity for 10 consecutive years, with 0.21% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Equity rose 6.0% to 0.21% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.21%, a 6.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.02%, down 14.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Equity was 0.21% for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, down from 0.33% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 0.33% in Q3 2025 to a low of 0.18% in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 0.06% and a median of 0.07% in 2022 define the central range for Return on Equity.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: skyrocketed 246bps in 2021, then fell -26bps in 2023.
  • Cars.com's Return on Equity stood at 0.07% in 2021, then rose by 13bps to 0.08% in 2022, then tumbled by -332bps to 0.18% in 2023, then soared by 186bps to 0.15% in 2024, then soared by 38bps to 0.21% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Return on Equity are 0.21% (Q4 2025), 0.33% (Q3 2025), and 0.13% (Q2 2025).