Cars.com’s recent filing unveils that its Chief Product Innovation Off. Crawford Matthew B. unloaded Company’s shares for reported $0.18 million on Aug 08 ’25. In the deal valued at $11.77 per share,15,000 shares were sold. As a result of this transaction, Crawford Matthew B. now holds 98,461 shares worth roughly $1.33 million.
Then, Crawford Matthew B. bought 15,000 shares, generating $175,861 in total proceeds.
Before that, Vetter Thomas Alex bought 27,870 shares. Cars.com shares valued at $299,558 were divested by the CEO at a price of $10.75 per share. As a result of the transaction, Vetter Thomas Alex now holds 844,897 shares, worth roughly $11.38 million.
JP Morgan upgraded its Cars.com [CARS] rating to an Overweight from a a Neutral in a research note published recently. A number of analysts have revised their coverage, including JP Morgan’s analysts, who decreased its forecast for the stock in early August from “an Overweight” to “a Neutral”. UBS began covering CARS with “Neutral” recommendation on September 15, 2023. B. Riley Securities started covering the stock on July 20, 2023. It rated CARS as “a Buy”.
Price Performance Review of CARS
On Monday, Cars.com [NYSE:CARS] saw its stock fall -0.15% to $13.47. Over the last five days, the stock has lost -0.30%. Cars.com shares have fallen nearly -20.62% since the year began. Nevertheless, the stocks have fallen -22.27% over the past one year.
How much short interest is there in Cars.com?
A steep rise in short interest was recorded in Cars.com stocks on 2025-08-29, growing by 1.02 million shares to a total of 5.93 million shares. Yahoo Finance data shows the prior-month short interest on 2025-07-31 was 4.92 million shares. There was a rise of 17.13%, which implies that there is a positive sentiment for the stock.
The most recent change occurred on June 27, 2023 when JP Morgan began covering the stock and recommended ‘”an Overweight”‘ rating along with a $23 price target.
