Cars.com CARS Institutional Ownership

Updated Nov 4, 2026

Cars.com Inc. (NYSE:CARS) was reported as a holding by 197 institutional investors in 13F filings for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

• Together they owned 99.10% of the outstanding stock in Q2 2026, up from 90.91% a quarter earlier.
• Total shares held in Cars.com rose 3.35% from Q1 2026, while the number of holders fell 7.94% from Q2 2025.
• Looking at the 197 holders of CARS individually, 98 added to their positions, 60 reduced their stakes and 39 left their positions unchanged.
• The aggregate institutional position in Cars.com was 55.37Mn shares at the end of Q2 2026, up 1.8Mn from the prior quarter and down 1.55Mn from a year earlier.
• As of June 30, 2026, FMR LLC held the largest stake in Cars.com with 8.38Mn shares, or 15.01% of shares outstanding.
• The largest position increases in CARS for Q2 2026 were by Two Sigma Investments, LP (+1.05Mn shares), American Century Companies Inc (+325.76K shares), LSV Asset Management (+237.45K shares), Dana Investment Advisors, Inc. (+143.37K shares) and Jain Global LLC (+142.38K shares).
• The largest position reductions in CARS for Q2 2026 were by Millennium Management LLC (-574.35K shares), Goldman Sachs Group Inc (-534.15K shares), FMR LLC (-409.77K shares), Renaissance Technologies LLC (-327.19K shares) and Susquehanna International Group, LLP (-207.71K shares).
• According to Business Quant data, the leading holders of CARS for Q2 2026 were FMR LLC (8.38Mn shares), BlackRock, Inc. (4.17Mn shares), Pale Fire Capital SE (4.01Mn shares), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (3.35Mn shares), Hill Path Capital LP (2.48Mn shares), Brown Advisory Inc (2.37Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (2.34Mn shares), Breach Inlet Capital Management, LLC (2.2Mn shares), American Century Companies Inc (2.14Mn shares) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (1.58Mn shares).