CoStar Group

CSGP

Real Estate - Services · Real Estate

Price

$29.78

-0.59 (-1.94%)

Market Cap

$12.16B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count rising — dilution

+6.7% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 394.2M (2021) → 420.7M (2025)

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 Mar

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+22.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+120.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$406M/ year

↑ Rising (+25% vs prior year)

12.5% of revenue

12.5x the sector average (1%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

1.4%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$1.3B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth + cash flow

CoStar Group is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 23%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

78.1%

Premium pricing power — 78.1% gross margin

Operating Margin

0.3%

Thin — 0.3% operating margin

ROCE

0.0%

Weak — 0.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+21.3%

Fast-growing sales (21.3% YoY)

EPS YoY

-79.9%

Earnings shrinking (-79.9% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

EPS Consistency

2/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

2090%

Turns 2090% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

-9.6%

Burning cash (-9.6%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.13

Conservative — low debt load (0.13)

Interest Cover

N/A

Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

473.2x

Expensive — P/E 473.2

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward

+459.8

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (473.2 → 13.3)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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