Forensic Analysis · General / Diversified · as of Nov 10, 2026

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (CAR)

A forensic read on Avis Budget Group, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Distress

Financial health

-0.3

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-1.2%

Revenue growth

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Avis Budget Group, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -0.3, placing it in the Distress zone. 1 forensic signal was flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

-1.5%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -1.5% in the latest fiscal year, against 6.4% in FY2023, having run between -6.5% and 6.4% across FY2023–FY2025 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was $1.9B in FY2023 and ($401M) in FY2025. The capital base behind it went from $29.4B in FY2023 to $26.8B in FY2025 (-9%), while the revenue it carried went from $12.0B to $11.7B. FY2025's operating profit carried a $518M asset write-down and a $131M restructuring charge that alone took about 1.9 points off that year's return, so about 1.9 of the 7.9-point fall across FY2023–FY2025 is that charge landing in the latest year rather than the capital earning less. FY2024's operating profit carried a $2.5B asset write-down and a $37M restructuring charge that alone took about 7.2 points off that year's return; FY2024 sits between the two ends of FY2023–FY2025, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it. A non-cash write-down lowers the reported return in the year it lands.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$11.65B

Revenue Growth YoY-1.2%

Revenue CAGR (2yr)-1.5%

Net Margin-7.6%

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