Navigating Carvana's Core Fundamentals

By Scott Lee • Sunday, September 08 07:53 • Permanent Link

Carvana marked a -5.5% change today, compared to -2.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $133.41? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Carvana Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars in the United States.
Carvana belongs to the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 22.15 and an average price to book (P/B) of 3.11
The company's P/B ratio is 30.7
Carvana has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 53.6 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $2.49 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 113.1, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $1.18
CVNA has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of -1.56, which shows the company has a fair value when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Carvana has averaged free cash flows of $-1130834666.7, which on average grew 14.0%
Carvana has moved 162.6% over the last year compared to 20.5% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 142.0%
CVNA has an average analyst rating of hold and is -10.95% away from its mean target price of $149.82 per share

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