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CARS vs ZS

Side-by-side comparison of Cars.com Inc. (CARS) and Zscaler Inc. (ZS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CARS and ZS operate in EDP Services (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • ZS is the larger of the two at $27.28B, about 38.8x CARS ($702.5M).
  • Over the past year, CARS is down 2.6% and ZS is down 37.8% - CARS leads by 35.1 points.
  • CARS has been more active in the news (5 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for ZS).
  • ZS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 12 for CARS).
PerformanceCARS-2.65%ZS-37.75%
2025-08-11+0.00%2026-08-07
MetricCARSZS
Company
Cars.com Inc.
Zscaler Inc.
Price
$12.31+4.99%
$168.69+3.78%
Market cap
$702.5M
$27.28B
1M return
+11.75%
+14.66%
1Y return
-2.65%
-37.75%
Industry
EDP Services
EDP Services
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2017
2018
News (4w)
5
4
Recent ratings
12
25
CARS

Cars.com Inc.

Cars.com, LLC, through its subsidiaries, operates as a digital marketplace, and provides solutions for the automotive industry. Its platform connects car shoppers with sellers. The company, through its marketplace, dealer websites, and other digital products, showcases dealer inventory, elevate and amplify dealers' and automotive manufacturers' (OEMs) brands, connect sellers with ready-to-buy audience, and empower shoppers with the resources and information needed to make car buying decisions. It also offers marketplace products, such as marketplace subscription advertising and social selling services; digital solutions, including Website platform hosting, AI chat tool, digital retailing, and review and reputation management; and advertising comprising display advertising, digital advertising, and in-market audio services. As of December 31, 2020, the company served 18,372 dealer customers in 50 states, which included franchise and independent dealers, with digital and brick-and-mortar stores; and primary automakers selling vehicles in the United States. Its customers are local car dealers, OEMs, and other national advertisers. Cars.com, LLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

ZS

Zscaler Inc.

Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company provides Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, servers, operational technology, Internet of Things device secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and Internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds. It also offers Zscaler Digital Experience that measures end-to-end user experience across business applications, as well as provides an easy to understand digital experience score for each user, application, and location within an enterprise. In addition, the company provides workload segmentation solutions comprising Zscaler Cloud Security Posture Management that identifies and remediates application misconfigurations in SaaS, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service to reduce risk and ensure compliance with industry and organizational benchmarks; and Zscaler Cloud Workload Segmentation, which is designed to secure application-to-application communications inside public clouds and data centers to stop lateral threat movement, as well as prevents application compromise and reduces the risk of data breaches. Its platform modules include Zscaler Central Authority, Zscaler Enforcement Node, and Zscaler Log Servers. It serves customers in airlines and transportation, conglomerates, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications, public sector and education, technology, and telecommunications services industries. The company was formerly known as SafeChannel, Inc., and changed its name to Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008. Zscaler, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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