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Cars.com CARS

US equityMarket cap rank #3733Internet Content & Information

$9.45 −$0.09 (-0.94%)

Market open · Oct 8, 10:00 am ET · After hours $9.54 0.00%

Open$9.54

Prev close$9.54

Day range$9.45 – $9.61

Volume28.5K

Market cap$505.88M

P/E (TTM)16.6

Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership111.2%+0.41 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding235-2 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)32 buys / 18 sellsNet buying

Short interest13.23% of floatDays to cover 14.6 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share22.7%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$3.67M (6 inflow days, 14 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 42.2% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

FMR15.66%
BlackRock7.79%
Pale Fire Capital SE7.49%
Dimensional Fund Advisors6.26%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC5.02%
The Linda Ahmed Declaration Of Trust4.67%
Hill Path Capital LP4.63%
Brown Advisory Incorporated4.43%

By investor type

Mutual Fund74.75%
Hedge Fund12.13%
VC/PE Fund12.12%
Private Company9.01%
Individual/Insider2.43%
Public Company1.92%
Government Pension Fund0.66%
Insurance Company0.33%

Reported short interest has risen from 11.78% to 13.23% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
19 Aug 2026	Donald McGovern	Independent Director	Open Market Disposition	-8,000	$12.25	84,633
16 Aug 2026	Angelique Strong Marks	Chief Legal Officer	Open Market Disposition	-57,980	$11.94	19,585
11 Jun 2026	Sonia Jain	Chief Financial Officer	Open Market Disposition	-86,600	$9.56	75,838
4 Jun 2026	Scott Forbes	Independent Chairperson	Other Acquisition	+25,478	–	149,663
4 Jun 2026	Jill Greenthal	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+18,267	–	127,545
4 Jun 2026	Bryan Wiener	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+18,267	–	78,608
4 Jun 2026	Thomas Hale	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+18,267	–	42,384
4 Jun 2026	Donald McGovern	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+18,267	–	36,572
4 Jun 2026	Bala Subramanian	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+18,267	–	61,266
4 Jun 2026	Jenell Ross	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+18,267	–	54,669
12 Mar 2026	Jenell Ross	Independent Director	Open Market Acquisition	+1,995	$7.56	15,734
10 Mar 2026	Tobias Hartmann	Chief Executive Officer	Other Acquisition	+344,150	–	577,977
10 Mar 2026	Angelique Strong Marks	Chief Legal Officer	Other Acquisition	+64,603	–	154,407
10 Mar 2026	Sonia Jain	Chief Financial Officer	Other Acquisition	+156,267	–	267,335
10 Mar 2026	Lisa Gosselin	Chief Commercial Officer	Other Acquisition	+124,282	–	209,455
1 Mar 2026	T. Vetter	Chief Executive Officer	Sale to Issuer	-139,109	$8.54	526,821
1 Mar 2026	T. Vetter	Chief Executive Officer	Other Acquisition	+137,797	–	526,821
1 Mar 2026	Angelique Strong Marks	Chief Legal Officer	Sale to Issuer	-16,442	$8.54	53,209
1 Mar 2026	Sonia Jain	Chief Financial Officer	Sale to Issuer	-27,012	$8.54	132,098
1 Mar 2026	Sonia Jain	Chief Financial Officer	Other Acquisition	+26,536	–	132,098

From Form 4/Form 144 filings. Negative share counts are disposals (sales, gifts, or shares withheld for taxes); positive are acquisitions.

Short interest, by report

Report date	Shares short	% of float	Days to cover
15 Sep 2026	7,082,670	13.2%	14.6
31 Aug 2026	6,801,313	12.7%	13.5
14 Aug 2026	6,206,952	11.6%	8.3
31 Jul 2026	6,034,309	10.8%	8.8
15 Jul 2026	6,498,048	11.6%	10.4
30 Jun 2026	6,584,939	11.8%	7.3

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