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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Retail · CIK 0001170010
$52.96
+2.85% · live
Updated
$7.51B market value
From CARMAX INC's FY2026 10-K, filed Apr 15, 2026 · read the filing
CARMAX sells cars and fuel. It took in $25.88B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 1 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by accounting, with profitability worth watching, while growth and debt remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From CARMAX INC's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Profit
$500.6M → $247.3M
Free cash flow
$156.5M → $1.24B
Earnings per share
$3.26 → $1.74
Cash
$247.0M → $122.8M
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Apr 15, 2026
Deteriorated: -50.6%
$500.6M to $247.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
KMX rose 2.85% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Discretionary company tracked here moved +2.30%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 0.6 points above its sector and 3.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 6% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 5 years it grew by about 20% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $247.3M last year.
No. Sales shrank 1.8% last year.
Yes. Clearing its debt would take roughly 9.7 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.29 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $247.3M and generated $1.78B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Apr 15, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Apr 11, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Apr 15, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Apr 13, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Apr 14, 2022Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $25.88B | $26.35B | $26.54B | $29.68B | $31.90B | −1.8% |
| Cost of revenue | $23.07B | $23.46B | $23.82B | $26.88B | $28.61B | −1.6% |
| Gross profit | $2.81B | $2.90B | $2.71B | $2.80B | $3.29B | −3.2% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 10.8% | 11.0% | 10.2% | 9.4% | 10.3% | −0.2 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $2.45B | $2.44B | $2.29B | $2.49B | $2.33B | +0.7% |
| Interest expense | $110.4M | $107.9M | $124.8M | $120.4M | $94.1M | +2.3% |
| Income before tax | $383.4M | $669.4M | $641.6M | $636.8M | $1.49B | −42.7% |
| Net income | $247.3M | $500.6M | $479.2M | $484.8M | $1.15B | −50.6% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 1.0% | 1.9% | 1.8% | 1.6% | 3.6% | −0.9 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $1.74 | $3.26 | $3.04 | $3.07 | $7.15 | −46.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMXCARMAX INC · this page | 5.0/10 | 6/9 |
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Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
Holds 28,492 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
Holds 227,754 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2027
Revenue +19.5% · Profit +73.3% · Earnings per share +80.3% — against Q2 FY2026
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 4 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 3 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-04-15. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from KMX's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-02-28, filed Apr 15, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
4 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. All four had enough reported figures. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 5.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 15, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 5.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 11, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 5.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 15, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 5.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 13, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 5.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 14, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 4.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 20, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
1.65
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-2.70
Below the threshold — nothing unusual flagged
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +694.2%
$156.5M to $1.24BCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -46.6%
$3.26 to $1.74Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -50.3%
$247.0M to $122.8MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -7.5%
153.3M to 141.8MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +15.6%
$467.9M to $541.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2027 against Q2 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Sep 30, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +73.3%
$95.4M to $165.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +80.3%
$0.65 to $1.16Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -68.4%
$540.4M to $170.5MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +19.5%
$6.59B to $7.88BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +11.4%
$717.7M to $799.5MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: -5.8%
$17.82B to $16.79BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -3.9%
147.7M to 141.9MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2027 against Q1 FY2027, from the 10-Q filed Sep 30, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +29.0%
$132.2M to $170.5MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -6.4%
$854.4M to $799.5MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: -11.0%
$185.6M to $165.3MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -11.0%
$1.31 to $1.16Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 3% and 8%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 25 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 25 analysts publishing on this company, 4 say strong buy, 2 say buy, 18 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 7.6% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 14.8x — investors pay $14.8 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Nothing unusual. Its accounting patterns look like those of companies that report earnings straightforwardly.
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| ANAUTONATION, INC. | 4.7/10 | 5/9 | 3.2% | 2.3% | 8.78x | 5.15x |
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| Median of peers | 6.5/10 | — | 3.6% | 7.8% | 15.28x | -1.94x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Holds 25,398 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
Holds 33,186 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
Holds 3,696 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
Holds 3,696 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,696 shares
Holds 3,696 shares after this filing.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2027
Revenue +6.2% · Free cash flow turned negative · Cash -49.7% — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingTook on a direct financial obligation · Published results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Profit -50.6% · Free cash flow +694.2% · Earnings per share -46.6% — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue -6.9% · Profit -50.4% · Earnings per share -46.6% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue -6.0% · Profit -28.2% · Earnings per share -24.5% — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
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