The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

CPRT

Concerning the House

Copart, Inc. provides online auctions and vehicle remarketing services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Finland, Oman, the Republic of Ireland, and Bahrain. It offers a range of services to process and sell vehicles over the internet through its virtual bidding third generation internet auction-style sales technology. The company's services include online seller access, salvage estimation, estimating, end-of-life vehicle processing, transportation, vehicle inspection stations, on-demand reporting, title processing and express, loan payoff, flexible vehicle processing programs, buy it now, sales process, and dealer services. Its services also comprise services to sell vehicles through BluCar, CashForCars.com, CashForCars.ca, CashForCars.de, CashForCars.co.uk, and Cash-for-cars.ie; Copart Recycling service, which allows the public to purchase parts from salvaged and end-of-life vehicles; and copart 360, a proprietary technology that captures clear 360-degree views of interiors and exteriors of cars, trucks, and vans. In addition, it provides IntelliSeller, an automated tool leveraging its vehicle and sales data to assist its sellers in making vital auction decisions; Purple Wave Inc., that offers wholesale construction, agriculture, and fleet remarketing services through no-reserve online auctions; wholesale powersport vehicle remarketing services through live and online auction platforms. The company sells its products to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers, and exporters, as well as to the public. Copart, Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas

United States · www.copart.com

The Long Run

FY 2012–2025 · 14 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$461.37M-6.2%
Gross profit$195.92M+9.0%
Operating income$1.49B+25.0%
Net income$1.36B+33.9%
Cash from ops$1.80B+24.1%
Quotation

$29.39

+0.40 (+1.4%)

52w hi$49.97
52w lo$27.17
Vol8.14M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Sell

Our score -0.52

Short-0.67
Medium-0.54
Long-0.16

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Copart, Inc.

Industrials · Specialty Business Services

Market cap$28.31B
Enterprise value$22.75B
Trailing P/E18.25x
Forward P/E17.46x
EV / EBITDA11.60x
P / S (ttm)5.87x
Profit margin33.5%
Return on equity17.6%
Revenue growth+2.1%
Earnings growth+2.3%
Debt / equity1.06
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.55
Corr SPX0.33
Annual vol27.1%
Annual ret-22.9%
Sharpe-0.85
Max DD-57.4%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.23
Sector+0.07
Technical-0.39
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$29.18$29.68$28.85$29.398.14M
Aug 12$29.08$29.20$28.68$28.998.44M
Aug 11$29.30$29.66$29.19$29.408.29M
Aug 10$29.36$29.67$28.94$29.598.89M
Aug 7$28.71$29.86$28.70$29.667.80M