CarMax Inc. (KMX)

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CarMax Inc.'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).

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CarMax Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $16 billion in fiscal 2017 to $26 billion in fiscal 2026, up 5.6% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2026; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-02-28, CarMax Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 41% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 8 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-02-28, CarMax Inc. earned about 4 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 11 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 78 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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CarMax Inc.'s standing among 21 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $26 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 1% ranks in the bottom 40%; revenue growth of -4.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 21% (its annual reports).

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CarMax Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Barr, Keith (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-03-18, 8 months (bottom 8% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.5 years (top 42%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (bottom 19%; 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.

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CarMax Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $123 million against debt of $17 billion leaves -65% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.8% of revenue (top 29%); a gross margin of 10.8% (bottom 16%) (its annual report).

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CarMax Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -4.5% a year over the last three filed years against 5.6% over all 10, slowing (bottom 36% of its family); the newest year grew -1.8% (bottom 31%); capital spending grew 8.6% a year (top 47%) (its annual reports). CarMax Inc. 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.

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CarMax Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $26 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 4.2% above the $25 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 31% of its family); net income of $247 million against a prior three-year average of $488 million (bottom 21%); a net margin of 1% against 1.8% before (top 36%) (its annual reports).