Here Are the Facts You Need to Understand CVNA

By Harris Dyer • Tuesday, October 08 15:13 • Permanent Link

We're taking a closer look at Carvana today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved 5.0% compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:

Carvana Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars in the United States.
Carvana has moved 360.4% over the last year compared to 30.7% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 329.7%
CVNA has an average analyst rating of hold and is 18.24% away from its mean target price of $159.58 per share
Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $2.49
Carvana has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 75.8 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.24 and its forward P/E ratio is 152.2
CVNA has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 4.99, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 43.43 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Carvana is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.6 and an average P/B of 3.19
Carvana has on average reported free cash flows of $-1130834666.7 over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 14.0%

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