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[Derby City Daily logo]( March 6, 2024 [Carvana's Trillion-Dollar Market Opportunity]( By Andy Swan Carvana (CVNA) recently surprised the market â and us â when it reported its first-ever annual profit. At LikeFolio, we're great at predicting revenue. Our social media machine detects swings in consumer demand that lead us to [winning trades](. (LikeFolio Investor subscribers just made a whopping 389% gain on one of those alerts. [And we can show you the next big winner here]( But the internal workings of a company are out of our range. We werenât expecting CVNA to go skyward like it did... CVNA Stock Price Performance, YTD But we can take a retrospective look back to see what we can learn â and how we can best play CVNA from here. Letâs start with the results: ✓ Q4 Revenue: $2.42 billion (-13% YoY)
✓ Q4 Retail Units Sold: -6% YoY
✓ FY23 Net Income: $150 million The third bullet â net income â is the major driver of investor optimism, assisted by Carvanaâs ability to generate a larger gross profit per unit than the year prior. RECOMMENDED LINK [Forget NVIDIA, Tesla, & ChatGPT â Buy Elonâs Secret âA.I. 2.0â Project Instead](
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✓ Lower the average days-to-sale by ~70 days (from its peak in 2023)
✓ Reduce the non-vehicle cost of a sale by $900 per unit Whew. The takeaway: Carvana and its team are getting better at moving and selling vehicles â so even though the total number of units sold did fall, operational improvements more than offset the weakness. This ticks off Step 2 of Carvanaâs three-step plan (driving fundamental gains in GPU and operational efficiency). Step 3: Return to Growth LikeFolio consumer data shows Carvana still has plenty of room for improvement. Stacked up against other used vehicle peers, TrueCar (TRUE) and CarMax (KMX), it sits at the bottom of the pack in Consumer Happiness at just 60% positive: Web visits do show some near-term traction, up 15% year over year, but still nowhere near where it was a few years ago. (On a two-year stack, visits are down 24%.) RECOMMENDED LINK [Weâre in the Final Inning of Americaâs First-Ever Cash Bubble... Are You Ready?](
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