Analyzing Carvana's Key Metrics – A Brief Overview

By Blake Campbell • Friday, March 14 15:07 • Permanent Link

With gains of 6.6%, Carvana was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $177.71 and have logged a 2.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Carvana has moved 109.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 7.9%
CVNA has an average analyst rating of buy and is -33.73% away from its mean target price of $268.16 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.58
Carvana has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 112.5 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.35 and its forward P/E ratio is 75.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 18.8 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
The company has a free cash flow of $491.88 Million, 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. The company offers vehicle acquisition, inspection and reconditioning, online search and shopping experience, financing, complementary products, logistics network and distinctive fulfillment experience, and post-sale customer support services. It also operates auction sites. Carvana Co. was founded in 2012 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.

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