Avis Budget Group, Inc.
$10.03B- Market cap
- $4.48B
- Debt
- +$6.07B
- Cash
- −$519.00M
Capital structure 42% equity / 58% debt · EV / Revenue 0.86x
Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Decision snapshot: CAR stock price at discount vs LSTR $126.74 current versus $409.79 implied using P/S multiple.
Quick read
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Implied fair value · at LSTR's multiple
Implied fair value · at CAR's multiple
Snapshot Sep 10, 2026, 4:00 PM ET
Metric by metric
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Growth edge
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Operating income + D&A
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
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Trendline
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Price framework
USD market cap plus reported borrowing debt, less cash and equivalents. This EV proxy excludes investments, preferred stock and noncontrolling-interest adjustments.
Capital structure 42% equity / 58% debt · EV / Revenue 0.86x
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Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. · implied price per share
Five annual free-cash-flow observations are required for the filing-backed baseline.
LANDSTAR SYSTEM, INC. · implied price per share
Debt and bridge-cash inputs are required to translate enterprise value into equity value.
Balance sheet health
Inspect reported liquidity and leverage alongside historical financial-health checks.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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LLM-powered synthesis
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If you believe CAR can improve profitability and delever meaningfully from its current 5.6x net debt/EBITDA, then the stock could merit a re-rating toward LSTR-implied valuation because it is already cheap on P/S and EV/Revenue; if not, the negative margins and weak F-Score argue against paying up for the upside case.
On the provided P/S basis, CAR trades at 0.4x versus LSTR at 1.3x, implying a large relative valuation gap and the stated implied price of $432.51. However, CAR also carries materially weaker earnings quality and balance-sheet metrics, so the apparent upside is driven more by revenue-multiple rerating than by stronger fundamentals.
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