Company Analysis

Credit Acceptance Corporation (CACC)

Nasdaq: CACC · Personal Credit Institutions · Southfield, MI · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade6.1
◀ Past 7.2● Present 5.8▶ Future 5.0

The grade of Credit Acceptance Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.1/10
◀ Past7.240% of the headline
● Present5.835% of the headline
▶ Future5.025% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.2/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+10.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 57th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $969 million in fiscal 2016 to $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 10.2% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 1% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span10.2%bottom 41% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 36% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 36% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak1.3%top 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 5.1% a year. 37% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 200 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 77th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Credit Acceptance Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 5.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 37% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 200 sales (189 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 32% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.8/1035% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 28%: 28¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 82%: owes 82¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 71st percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Credit Acceptance Corporation earned about 28 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 82 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 50% of its family
  • return on equitytop 23% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 44% of 11 in its family; net margin 18.3%.

weight 33% of this tense · 56th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of 18.3% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of 8.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 50% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.32Btop 50% of its family
  • net margin18.3%top 32% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth8.1%top 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
3.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 32% of 11 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Hegde, Vinayak (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-11-17, 12 months (bottom 23% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 23%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (top 50%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge7 in three years among 17 peopletop 50% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.5 yearsbottom 23% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.0 yearsbottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.0/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 32% of 11 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 68th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $23 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 0.3% of its assets as net cash, top 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 45.4% of revenue (top 41%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets0.3%top 23% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue45.4%top 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 43% of 11 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 8.1% a year over the last three filed years against 10.2% over all 10, slowing (top 41% of its family); the newest year grew 7.2% (bottom 41%); capital spending grew -19.8% a year (bottom 28%) (its annual reports). Credit Acceptance Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-2.0 points a yeartop 41% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.2%bottom 41% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-19.8%bottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 38% of 11 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Credit Acceptance Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.4% below the $2.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $424 million against a prior three-year average of $357 million (bottom 41%); a net margin of 18.3% against 18.6% before (bottom 23%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-1.4%top 50% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+19%bottom 41% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-0.3 pointsbottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CACC · research, not advice