Cars.com Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

NYSE:CARS Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
02 Dec 24	SellUS$218,152	Jill Greenthal	Individual	10,990	US$19.85
27 Nov 24	SellUS$983,997	Sonia Jain	Individual	50,000	US$19.74
26 Nov 24	SellUS$89,847	Jill Greenthal	Individual	4,524	US$19.86
12 Jul 24	SellUS$339,871	T. Vetter	Individual	17,674	US$19.23
14 Jun 24	SellUS$354,910	T. Vetter	Individual	17,666	US$20.09
05 Jun 24	SellUS$205,100	Bryan Wiener	Individual	10,000	US$20.51
28 May 24	SellUS$482,087	T. Vetter	Individual	25,373	US$19.00
24 May 24	SellUS$368,137	Angelique Strong Marks	Individual	19,835	US$18.57
09 May 24	SellUS$524,875	T. Vetter	Individual	27,625	US$19.00
08 Mar 24	SellUS$299,663	Douglas Miller	Individual	16,167	US$18.54
06 Mar 24	SellUS$293,431	Douglas Miller	Individual	16,167	US$18.15
26 Feb 24	SellUS$250,880	Douglas Miller	Individual	14,000	US$17.92
15 Feb 24	SellUS$335,654	T. Vetter	Individual	17,666	US$19.00
12 Feb 24	SellUS$335,654	T. Vetter	Individual	17,666	US$19.00

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: CARS insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of CARS?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	60,457	0.0934%
Individual Insiders	956,473	1.48%
General Public	1,121,752	1.73%
Private Companies	3,500,400	5.41%
Institutions	59,100,191	91.3%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 82.04% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
15.3%	FMR LLC	9,902,394	US$172.3m	1.67%	0.01%
15.2%	BlackRock, Inc.	9,807,705	US$170.7m	-0.33%	no data
10.8%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	7,005,924	US$121.9m	-1.05%	no data
4.82%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	3,117,563	US$54.2m	1.47%	0.01%
3.9%	Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc.	2,522,908	US$43.9m	-16.9%	0.03%
3.86%	The Linda Ahmed Declaration Of Trust	2,500,400	US$43.5m	0%	no data
3.85%	Pacer Advisors, Inc.	2,493,932	US$43.4m	62,400%	0.1%
3.74%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	2,419,422	US$42.1m	0.63%	no data
2.7%	Greenvale Capital LP	1,747,000	US$30.4m	-52.9%	2.44%
2.26%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,462,312	US$25.4m	0.41%	no data
1.95%	American Century Investment Management Inc	1,261,758	US$22.0m	17%	0.01%
1.54%	Atlantic Coast Warranty Corp.	1,000,000	US$17.4m	0%	no data
1.24%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	804,483	US$14.0m	2.22%	no data
1.2%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	776,966	US$13.5m	6.73%	no data
1.06%	Northern Trust Global Investments	684,309	US$11.9m	-2.28%	no data
1.04%	Tocqueville Asset Management LP	670,433	US$11.7m	-11.6%	0.18%
1.01%	Renaissance Technologies LLC	652,100	US$11.3m	35.7%	0.02%
0.98%	First Eagle Investment Management, LLC	632,643	US$11.0m	20.1%	0.01%
0.97%	Royce & Associates, LP	625,492	US$10.9m	-7.97%	0.09%
0.93%	Border To Coast Pensions Partnership Limited	600,162	US$10.4m	0%	0.05%
0.82%	BNY Asset Management	533,042	US$9.3m	-10.6%	no data
0.8%	ArrowMark Colorado Holdings, LLC	521,000	US$9.1m	-7.13%	0.11%
0.75%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	485,190	US$8.4m	5.41%	no data
0.69%	Qube Research & Technologies Ltd	447,476	US$7.8m	38.2%	0.02%
0.68%	Russell Investment Management, LLC	438,760	US$7.6m	-27.1%	0.01%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/31 23:07
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/31 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Cars.com Inc. is covered by 13 analysts. 7 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Gary Prestopino	Barrington Research Associates, Inc.
Daniel Kurnos	Benchmark Company
Sameet Sinha	B. Riley Securities, Inc.