CARS — what changed in the latest 10-Q
A section-by-section comparison of CARS's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-Q · 2026-05-07 vs the prior 10-Q · 2025-11-06
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +29 | −43 | ~7 | 9 |
| Market risk (Item 3) | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 0 |
| Controls & procedures | No paragraph-level changes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Risk factors | No material changes reported (points to the 10-K) | — | — | — | — |
| Other information | Text added/removed | +1 | −2 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Not shown (absent or not faithfully extractable): Legal proceedings
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
Business Overview. Cars.com Inc. is a trusted audience-powered and data-driven technology platform that simplifies buying and selling cars. The flagship Cars.com marketplace connects millions of consumers to dealerships across the U.S., powering the car buying experience with artificial intelligence…
During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we recorded $8.5 million of expense associated with a plan to reduce our operating expenses and realign our resources via an 11% reduction in workforce. These costs are comprised of one-time termination benefits, substantially all of which is related to …
We define UVs in a given month as the number of distinct visitors that engage with our platform during that month. Visitors are identified upon first visit to an individual Cars.com property on an individual device/browser combination or installation of one of our mobile apps on an individual device…
UVs decreased 11% year-over-year and Traffic decreased 6% year-over-year for the three months ended March 31, 2026, which primarily reflects pull-forward consumer demand in the prior year period leading up to the anticipated announcement of automotive tariffs, which served to elevate traffic and vis…
For the three months ended March 31, 2026, Dealer Customers increased 1% compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025, primarily due to an increase in marketplace customers, partially offset by a decrease in digital solutions customers.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-06
Cars Commerce is an audience-driven technology company empowering the automotive industry. We simplify everything about car buying and selling with powerful products powered by data and machine learning that span pretail, retail and post-sale activities – enabling more efficient and profitable retai…
We define UVs in a given month as the number of distinct visitors that engage with our platform during that month. Visitors are identified upon first visit to an individual Cars.com property on an individual device/browser combination or installation of one of our mobile apps on an individual device…
each of those unique property/browser/app/device combinations counts toward the number of UVs. Traffic is defined as the number of visits to Cars.com desktop and mobile properties (responsive sites and mobile apps). We measure UVs and Traffic via RudderStack. These metrics do not include traffic to …
UVs increased 4% and 3% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, and Traffic increased 1% for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, primarily driven by increased marketing investment along with strategic shifts to our marketing mix and optimization of …
Dealer Customers increased 1% from both September 30, 2024 and June 30, 2025 primarily due to an increase in marketplace customers.
Other information
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
During the quarter ended March 31, 2026, no director or officer of the Company adopted or terminated a "Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement" or "non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement," as the terms are defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2025-11-06
On September 15, 2025, Sonia Jain, Chief Financial Officer of Cars.com Inc. (the "Company"), adopted a trading plan to sell shares of the Company's common stock (the "Plan") intended to satisfy the affirmative defense of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act. Under the Plan, a maximum of 14,818 shar…
No other "officer" (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) or director of the Company adopted, modified or terminated a "Rule10b5-1 trading arrangement" or a "non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement" (each as defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K) during the three months ended September 30,…
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice