What is AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR)'s fair-value range?

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How is AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR)'s fair value calculated?

AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR)'s fair value is computed with several independent methods — a discounted cash flow (DCF) model, the Graham number, earnings power value (EPV), and valuation multiples (PE, EV/EBITDA, P/S, P/B) benchmarked against its industry — using data from SEC filings.

What is AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR)'s PE ratio versus its industry?

EvidInvest shows AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR)'s current and historical PE ratio alongside its sector and industry averages, so you can see whether the stock trades at a premium or discount to peers. Full breakdown at https://evidinvest.com/valuation/CAR.

Fair value · AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR) · updated 2026-10-03 · from 10-K FY2025

AVIS BUDGET GROUP trades at $111.23. That price implies 2.9× EV/EBITDA.

Cboe · delayed 15 min · as of 03:43 ET

Are those assumptions reasonable? Use CAR’s filed growth history and the AI chat to decide, then set your own inputs below — the range you build is yours.

What the price implies

EV/EBITDA: 2.9×

Prices and market caps: Cboe delayed data, at least 15 minutes delayed. Not real-time. Fundamentals from company filings. This price: Cboe · delayed 15 min · as of 03:43 ET.

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The filing behind these numbers

AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.

Revenue: $11.7B
Diluted EPS: $-25.25
Free cash flow: $-12.0B; operating cash flow − capital expenditure
Diluted shares: 35.2M; weighted average

10-K FY2025 · fiscal year ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-19 · accession 0000723612-26-000012

Trailing-twelve-month EPS also uses the quarterly 10-Qs through Q2 FY2026 (filed 2026-07-29).

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Fair Value Summary

Daily Price — CAR

$111.22 -30.4% (1Y)

Range implied by today’s price1 of 7 methods

At least two methods need a usable value to draw a range with these inputs.

Range with preset inputs

No preset range for this company yet.

Every method that could be solved backwards opens on the assumption today’s price makes, so the top range sits on the price — that is arithmetic, not a view. Change any input and it becomes yours.

We don’t tell you what CAR is worth. Every tab OPENS on what today’s price implies for that method’s key assumption; you decide whether that assumption is reasonable — the growth matrix has CAR’s filed history and the AI chat will reason it through with you — and the range you build is yours. Our presets are filed history and reference settings, never a recommendation.

Discounted cash flow

N/A

Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow.

Preset inputs — revenue-driven DCF from the latest filing

• Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow.
• WACC is at or below the terminal growth rate; the terminal value is not defined.

Implied by today’s price

Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow, so no growth rate reaches the price.

Not solvable from the price — Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow, so no growth rate reaches the price. Showing preset inputs.

This method has no key input to read out of the price. The others below do, and you set them yourself: the growth matrix shows what CAR has actually filed, and the AI chat will reason it through with you.

Your inputs

Free cash flow grows at your stage-1 rate, then your stage-2 rate, then a terminal rate; everything is discounted at your WACC.

Stage-1 growth5.0%

Yearly free-cash-flow growth for the first stage. Starts below zero so a shrinking-cash-flow case — and the rate today’s price implies — can be set.

-20.0%60.0%

Stage-1 years5 yrs

How long stage-1 growth lasts.

1 yrs10 yrs

Stage-2 growth2.5%

Slower growth after stage 1, before the terminal phase.

-20.0%30.0%

Stage-2 years5 yrs

0 yrs10 yrs

Terminal growth2.5%

Growth forever after the two stages. Above ~3% is rarely justified.

0.0%5.0%

Discount rate (WACC)3.00%

The return you require. Default is the WACC EvidInvest computed for this company. Higher discount rate, lower value.

3.00%15.00%

Net debt ($M)Debt minus cash, from the balance sheet. Subtracted from enterprise value.

Starting FCF ($M)Latest free cash flow from the filing (operating cash flow minus capex).

Shares (M)Diluted shares, from the filing.

Year by year (two-stage model, $M)

PV explicit $-128,451M · PV terminal $-2,638,346M · EV $-2,766,797M · equity $-2,775,645M

Year	Stage	FCF	Present value
1	Stage 1	$-12,577M	$-12,211M
2	Stage 1	$-13,206M	$-12,448M
3	Stage 1	$-13,866M	$-12,689M
4	Stage 1	$-14,559M	$-12,936M
5	Stage 1	$-15,287M	$-13,187M
6	Stage 2	$-15,669M	$-13,123M
7	Stage 2	$-16,061M	$-13,059M
8	Stage 2	$-16,463M	$-12,996M
9	Stage 2	$-16,874M	$-12,933M
10	Stage 2	$-17,296M	$-12,870M

Inputs from the filing

Free cash flow: $-11.4B; sum of the last four quarters
EBIT: $472.0M; latest annual
Shares: 35.3M
Total debt: $9.4B
Cash: $519.0M
Net debt: $8.8B; debt − cash

10-K FY2025 · period ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-19 · accession 0000723612-26-000012 · sec.gov

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AVIS BUDGET GROUP trades at $111.23. That price implies 2.9× EV/EBITDA.

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