CoStar Group Inc

Chart & Performance

D1W1MN

P/E

249.24

P/S

12.63

EPS

0.33

Div Yield, %

—

Shrs. gr., 5y

2.17%

Rev. gr., 5y

14.35%

Revenues

2.74b

+11.45%

Net income

139m

-62.98%

CFO

393m

-19.80%

Earnings

Jul 21, 2025

Profile

CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate, hospitality, residential, and related professionals industries in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It offers CoStar Property that provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and student housing properties and land; CoStar COMPS, a robust database of comparable commercial real estate sales transactions; CoStar Market Analytics to view and report on aggregated market and submarket trends; and CoStar Tenant, an online business-to-business prospecting and analytical tool that provides tenant information. The company also provides Lease Comps and Analysis, a tool to capture, manage, and maintain lease data; CoStar Lease Analysis; Public Record, a searchable database of commercially-zoned parcels; CoStar Real Estate Manager, a real estate lease administration, portfolio management, and lease accounting compliance software solution; and CoStar Risk Analytics and CoStar Investment. In addition, it offers apartment marketing sites, such as ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, WestsideRentals.com, AFTER55.com, CorporateHousing.com, ForRentUniversity.com, Apartamentos.com, and Off Campus Partners; LoopNet Premium Lister; LoopNet Diamond, Platinum, and Gold Ads; LandsofAmerica.com, LandAndFarm.com, and LandWatch.com for rural land for-sale; BizBuySell.com, BizQuest.com, and FindaFranchise.com for operating businesses and franchises for-sale; Ten-X, an online auction platform for commercial real estate; and HomeSnap, an online and mobile software platform, as well as Homes.com, a homes for sale listings site. CoStar Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.

URL

https://www.costargroup.com/

IPO date

Jul 01, 1998

Employees

5,653

Domiciled in

Incorporated in

Valuation

Order:

Title USD in thousands, except ratios and share amounts	FY	FY	FY	FY	FY	FY	FY	FY	FY	FY
Title USD in thousands, except ratios and share amounts	2024‑12	2023‑12	2022‑12	2021‑12	2020‑12	2019‑12	2018‑12	2017‑12	2016‑12	2015‑12
Income
Revenues	2,736,200 11.45%	2,455,000 12.49%	2,182,399 12.26%
Cost of revenue	2,687,200	2,130,500	1,657,890
Unusual Expense (Income)
NOPBT	49,000	324,500	524,509
NOPBT Margin	1.79%	13.22%	24.03%
Operating Taxes	71,400	126,600	117,004
Tax Rate	145.71%	39.01%	22.31%
NOPAT	(22,400)	197,900	407,505
Net income	138,700 -62.98%	374,700 1.41%	369,500 26.28%
Dividends
Dividend yield
Proceeds from repurchase of equity		(26,400)	736,132
BB yield		0.07%	-2.39%
Debt
Debt current	32,000	80,000	36,049
Long-term debt	285,000	1,176,400	1,185,901
Deferred revenue			76,202
Other long-term liabilities	1,016,900	32,100	(62,201)
Net debt	(4,364,000)	(3,959,500)	(3,748,025)
Cash flow
Cash from operating activities	392,600	489,500	478,620
CAPEX		(25,300)	(58,574)
Cash from investing activities	(912,900)	(238,600)	(69,055)
Cash from financing activities	(13,700)	(3,700)	733,977
FCF	(588,300)	47,542	377,974
Balance
Cash	4,681,000	5,215,900	4,967,970
Long term investments			2,005
Excess cash	4,544,190	5,093,150	4,860,855
Stockholders' equity	2,321,600	2,190,800	1,804,610
Invested Capital	6,407,300	6,193,400	6,174,654
ROIC		3.20%	7.07%
ROCE	0.56%	3.85%	6.51%
EV
Common stock shares outstanding	407,800	406,900	397,752
Price	71.59 -18.08%	87.39 13.08%	77.28 -2.21%
Market cap	29,194,402 -17.90%	35,558,991 15.68%	30,738,275 -1.32%
EV	24,830,402	31,599,491	26,990,250
EBITDA	195,900	432,000	662,394
EV/EBITDA	126.75	73.15	40.75
Interest			32,125
Interest/NOPBT			6.12%