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Thomas Alex Vetter bought $300k of CARS

CEO at Cars.com Inc.. 27,870 shares at an average of $10.75, traded May 9, 2025, filed May 12, 2025.

Conviction score
57
Value
$300k
27,870 shares
Holdings after
844,897
+3% from before
From 52-week low
+4%
low $10.05, close $10.43
From 52-week high
-48%
high $20.10, as of May 9, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    CEO
    +25
  • Trade size
    $300k at market
    +14
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 3.4%
    0
  • Price context
    4% above the 52-week low; 48% below the 52-week high
    +18
  • Cluster
    No other insider buying within 14 days
    0
  • Repeat buying
    First buy in 90 days
    0
  • Track record
    Too few past buys to judge (0 with prices)
    0

What happened after comparable buys

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

CARSOct 9, 2026 · close 9.71
Since filing May 12, 2025: -10.1%SPY +35.8% · excess -45.9%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0000950170-25-068872, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 9, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+27,239$10.75$293k844,266May 12, 2025
May 9, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+631$10.68$6,739844,897May 12, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at Cars.com Inc. and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
13Weak
CARSsell10b5-1
Cars.com Inc.
Sonia Jain
Chief Financial Officer
$153k
11,400 shares
-4%
40Moderate
CARSsell
Cars.com Inc.
Matthew B. Crawford
Chief Product Innovation Off.
$329k
27,358 shares
-28%
32Weak
CARSsell
Cars.com Inc.
Matthew B. Crawford
Chief Product Innovation Off.
$177k
15,000 shares
-13%
40Moderate
CARSsell 2
Cars.com Inc.
Jill A Greenthal
director
$218k
10,990 shares
-11%
60Notable
CARSsell 2
Cars.com Inc.
Sonia Jain
Chief Financial Officer
$984k
50,000 shares
-20%
32Weak
CARSsell 2
Cars.com Inc.
Jill A Greenthal
director
$90k
4,524 shares
-4%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

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