KMX Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Carmax | NYSE:KMX)

CarMax sells, finances, and services used and new cars through a chain of over 250 used retail stores. It was formed in 1993 as a unit of Circuit City and spun off into an independent company in late 2002. Used-vehicle sales were 83% of fiscal 2025 revenue and wholesale about 17%, with the remaining portion composed of extended service plans and repair. In fiscal 2025, the company retailed and wholesaled 789,050 and 544,312 used vehicles, respectively. CarMax is the largest used-vehicle retailer in the US but still estimates that it had only about 3.7% US market share of vehicles 0-10 years old in calendar 2024. It seeks over 5% share. CarMax is based in Richmond, Virginia.

Carmax trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol KMX.

As of February 19, 2026, KMX stock price declined to $44.58 with 2,915,664 million shares trading.

KMX has a beta of 0.78, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. KMX has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

KMX has a market cap of $6.32 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Carmax reported $6 billion in Revenue and $.51 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $123 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.19.

In the last 3 years, KMX traded as high as $91.25 and as low as $30.26.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that KMX belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, VBR, VXF.

KMX has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -50.0% while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. However, in the short term, KMX had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +33.3% vs +4.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, KMX shares have been beat by the market, returning -5.7% compared to an SPY return of -0.2%.

KMX support price is $44.16 and resistance is $47.14 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that KMX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.