Tobias Hartmann - 22 Dec 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for Cars.com Inc. (CARS)

Reporting relationship: CEO-Designate
Issuer ticker: CARS
Reported as of: 22 Dec 2025
Net transaction value: $0
SEC form: 4
Accepted by SEC: 29 Dec 2025, 15:54:34 UTC
Next SEC filing: 13 Mar 2026
Source filing: View source filing
Reporting owner signature: /s/Angelique Strong Marks, as Attorney-in-Fact for Tobias Hartmann

Key filing fact

Tobias Hartmann filed Form 4 for Cars.com Inc. (CARS) on 29 Dec 2025.

Key facts

This page summarizes Tobias Hartmann's Form 4 filing for Cars.com Inc. (CARS).
2 reported transactions and 1 derivative row are listed below.
Accepted by SEC: 29 Dec 2025, 15:54.

Change

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Current net transaction value: $0.

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Evidence

Filed on Form 4

Ownership activity is grounded in SEC Form 4 disclosures.

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Reporting Owners (1)

CIK 0001688322 Primary reporting owner

Hartmann Tobias

Relationship: CEO-Designate
Address: C/O CARS.COM INC., 300 S. RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 1100, CHICAGO
Signature: /s/Angelique Strong Marks, as Attorney-in-Fact for Tobias Hartmann
Signature date: 29 Dec 2025

Reported non-derivative transactions

Shares, units, or other non-derivative securities reported in this filing.

CARS transaction

Common Stock

Award

Transaction value: $0
Shares: +233,827
Change %
Price: $0.000000
Shares after: 233,827
Date: 22 Dec 2025
Ownership: Direct
Footnotes: F1, F2

Reported derivative securities

Options, warrants, convertible securities, or similar derivative positions disclosed in the filing.

CARS transaction Derivative

Performance-Based Stock Units

Award

Transaction value: $0
Shares: +155,885
Change %
Price: $0.000000
Shares after: 155,885
Date: 22 Dec 2025
Ownership: Direct
Underlying class: Common Stock
Underlying amount: 155,885
Exercise price: $0.000000
Footnotes: F3

^* marks a reported price that did not pass the local price check.

Additional SEC filing notes

Filing notes and footnotes

Explanation of responses 3 footnotes

Footnote F1

Restricted stock units ("RSUs") granted under the Cars.com Inc. 2025 Inducement Equity Plan, subject to vesting. Each RSU represents a right to receive one share of the Company's common stock.

Footnote F2

Includes RSUs.

Footnote F3

The reported Performacne-Based Stock Units (PSUs) represent a contingent right to receive one share of the Company's common stock upon the attinment of specified Company stock performance goals and continued service through the applicable vesting dates.The PSUs have no exercise price and will settle, if earned, in shares of the Company's common stock. PSUs may vest in three equally weighted installments on the later of (i) the achievement of stock price goals (based on the 30 trading day closing price average) of $15, $16 and $17 and (ii) January 1, 2027, January 1, 2028 and December 31, 2028, respectively.

SEC remarks

1. Exhibit Index - Exhibit No. 24.1 - Power of Attorney