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

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed Return on Invested Capital for 8 consecutive years, with 0.04% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Invested Capital changed N/A to 0.04% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.04%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.02%, down 6.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Invested Capital was 0.04% for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, down from 0.13% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.6% in Q1 2021 to a low of 0.49% in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 0.13% and a median of 0.13% in 2025 define the central range for Return on Invested Capital.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: surged 150bps in 2021, then tumbled -63bps in 2023.
  • Cars.com's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.55% in 2021, then tumbled by -74bps to 0.14% in 2022, then plummeted by -442bps to 0.49% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 50bps to 0.24% in 2024, then surged by 116bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Return on Invested Capital are 0.04% (Q4 2025), 0.13% (Q3 2025), and 0.24% (Q2 2024).