KAR Auction Services, Inc (KAR): Price and Financial Metrics

KAR POWR Grades

• KAR scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 77.76% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for KAR is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 26 weeks.
• KAR's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 25.46% of US stocks).

KAR Stock Summary

• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -43.45%, OPENLANE INC's debt growth rate surpasses merely 6.65% of about US stocks.
• The volatility of OPENLANE INC's share price is greater than that of merely 5.49% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• OPENLANE INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 21.17%, greater than the shareholder yield of 91.98% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to OPENLANE INC, a group of peers worth examining would be SRT, ULH, HAIN, AMCX, and BIMI.
• KAR's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit OPENLANE INC's official web site, go to www.karglobal.com.

KAR Valuation Summary

• KAR's price/sales ratio is 1; this is 50% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 171 months, KAR's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for KAR.

KAR Growth Metrics

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -72.39%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at -16.32%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -44.64%.

KAR's revenue has moved down $594,200,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows KAR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	1,696	-361.5	209.2
2022-06-30	1,838.2	-183.3	214
2022-03-31	2,039.4	188.7	15.3
2021-12-31	2,251.6	413.2	66.5
2021-09-30	2,231.8	305.1	44.3
2021-06-30	2,290.2	411.2	92.4

KAR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• KAR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 58.6% of graded US stocks.
• KAR's asset turnover comes in at 0.316 -- ranking 162nd of 165 Retail stocks.
• MUSA, ROST, and NSIT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with KAR.

The table below shows KAR's key quality metrics over time.