AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC.
At today's price, AVIS BUDGET GROUP, INC. (CAR) is priced for +22.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Avis Budget's profit is driven less by rental prices than by what its cars cost to own, so the single most important number is monthly fleet depreciation, which fell from above $500 in January to the mid-$300s by March. • The business is recovering off a trough: Americas revenue grew 2.9% in the first quarter of 2026, the first growth in ten quarters, and the company raised full-year EBITDA guidance. • The defining risk is leverage stacked on a cyclical asset, with billions in vehicle-backed d
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279 institutional managers reported holding CAR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 41 opened new positions that quarter. Held by UBS, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 6.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 17% of shares outstanding (8.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CAR has cut its share count 49.5% over the past five years, spending $5.80B on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $835.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CAR over the trailing three years: 2026: 1 buy totaling $40.06M. 12 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CAR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | +1.9% | -24.0% |
| 2023-11-03 | +14.8% | -17.0% |
| 2024-02-17 | -22.9% | -9.4% |
| 2024-05-03 | +19.1% | -8.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CAR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-01 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-06-22 (items 8.01); 2026-06-12 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-06-01 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-29 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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