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

Cars.com (CARS) has disclosed Return on Sales for 10 consecutive years, with 0.28% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales rose 12.0% to 0.28% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.28%, a 17.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.01%, down 9.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 0.28% for Q4 2025 at Cars.com, down from 0.66% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.66% in Q3 2025 to a low of 0.58% in Q4 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 0.07% and a median of 0.07% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: surged 524bps in 2021, then tumbled -66bps in 2023.
  • Cars.com's Return on Sales stood at 0.03% in 2021, then surged by 215bps to 0.08% in 2022, then crashed by -811bps to 0.58% in 2023, then soared by 129bps to 0.17% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 71bps to 0.28% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CARS's Return on Sales are 0.28% (Q4 2025), 0.66% (Q3 2025), and 0.06% (Q2 2025).