Insights for Carvana (CVNA) Investors

By Naomi Wentworth • Friday, March 08 10:10 • Permanent Link

With gains of 11.2%, Carvana was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $88.4 and have logged a 1.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Carvana has moved 987.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 33.6%
CVNA has an average analyst rating of hold and is 60.9% away from its mean target price of $54.94 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-4.18
Carvana has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -21.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-2.42 and its forward P/E ratio is -36.5
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 41.56 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Carvana is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.96 and an average P/B of 4.24
The company has a free cash flow of $1.1 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Carvana Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars in the United States. Its platform allows customers to research and identify a vehicle; inspect it using company's 360-degree vehicle imaging technology; obtain financing and warranty coverage; purchase the vehicle; and schedule delivery or pick-up from their desktop or mobile devices. The company also operates auction sites. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.

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