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Poland's largest independent distributor of automotive spare parts and accessories to repair workshops across Central and Eastern Europe.
Poland's largest independent distributor of automotive spare parts and accessories to repair workshops across Central and Eastern Europe.
Buys parts from manufacturers and sells to independent workshops, earning the distribution margin, and wins on speed: workshops order from a large central stock and expect delivery within hours. Own-brand parts earn more than third-party brands. The founding Oleksowicz family controls it.
In one line: Poland's largest auto-parts distributor, like a European O'Reilly/AutoZone for the trade.
Moat: narrow (scale, distribution). Largest CEE distribution network and warehouse density gives fastest parts availability to workshops.
Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland · Founded: 1990 · Employees: 5,961
Size Inter Cars (CAR.WA) is a Poland Consumer Discretionary company (Auto Parts: OEM) with a market value of $3.83B, the 26th largest of 83 Poland companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at PLN 1,060 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 38.0%, against -13.1% for the median peer and +14.3% for the Poland market (cap-weighted) — highest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 11.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.3%); the operating margin is 6.3% (peer median 7.2%).
Valuation It trades at 13.9× forward earnings against a peer median of 12.4× (9th most expensive of 19).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 9% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +18%, so the hurdle is -9 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 1.7 points above its cost of capital (10.0% WACC).
Next results Next results expected around 12 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | PLN 22.5B | PLN 21.2B | PLN 19.5B | PLN 18.0B | PLN 15.3B |
| Revenue growth | — | +9% | +8% | +18% | — |
| Gross profit | PLN 6.47B | PLN 6.00B | PLN 5.49B | PLN 5.08B | PLN 4.50B |
| EBITDA | PLN 1.70B | PLN 1.38B | PLN 1.23B | PLN 1.18B | PLN 1.24B |
| Net income | PLN 952M | PLN 806M | PLN 721M | PLN 700M | PLN 746M |
| Free cash flow | PLN 57.7M | -PLN 68.6M | -PLN 275M | -PLN 38.1M | -PLN 388M |
| Capital expenditure | PLN 643M | PLN 520M | PLN 465M | PLN 365M | PLN 177M |
| Total debt | PLN 4.11B | PLN 4.23B | PLN 3.71B | PLN 3.11B | PLN 2.79B |
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| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inter Cars CAR.WA | $3.83B | +38% | +12% | 6% | 13.9× | 9.5% |
| LKQ LKQ | $5.06B | -31% | -3% | 7% | 9.3× | 0.0% |
| Auto Partner APR.WA | $928M | +26% | +67% | 8% | 12.2× | -5.0% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | CAR.WA | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +8.8% | -6.5% | 4th highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +38.0% | -13.1% | highest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -3.1% | -31.8% | highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +11.5% | +7.3% | 8th highest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 6.3% | 7.2% | 9th lowest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 13.9× | 12.4× | 9th most expensive of 19 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 9.5% | 0.5% | 4th most demanding of 18 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +18.3% | +8.8% | 3rd highest of 17 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | -8.8 pp | -8.5 pp | 9th least demanding of 17 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +1.7 pp | +0.9 pp | 8th highest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 10.8× | 5.0× | 3rd most expensive of 11 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.0× | 0.4× | 2nd most indebted of 12 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inter Cars CAR.WA | Poland | $3.83B | +38% | +12% | 6% | 13.9× | 9.5% | +18.3% |
| Fulin Precision 300432.SZ | China | $3.84B | -47% | +95% | 5% | 20.2× | n/a | n/a |
| Jtekt 6473.T | Japan | $3.82B | -1% | +4% | 5% | 11.4× | 1.2% | +9.1% |
| Toyoda Gosei 7282.T | Japan | $3.81B | +26% | +13% | 7% | 9.8× | 0.5% | +9.7% |
| ZCZL Industrial Technology 601717.SS | China | $3.80B | -19% | -1% | 8% | 6.3× | -9.8% | +9.4% |
| Garrett Motion GTX | United States | $3.72B | -31% | +7% | 15% | 9.9× | -6.9% | +3.4% |
| Bethel Automotive Safety Systems 603596.SS | China | $3.70B | -11% | +21% | 10% | 16.0× | 7.0% | +31.7% |
| Linamar LNR.TO | Canada | $3.63B | -9% | +9% | 9% | 7.1× | -8.4% | +12.0% |
| Aumovio AMV0.DE | Germany | $3.57B | -12% | -6% | -6% | n/a | 10.2% | n/a |
| Atmus Filtration Technologies ATMU | United States | $4.13B | -9% | +13% | 17% | 16.2× | 8.1% | +7.4% |
| Zhejiang Yinlun Machinery 002126.SZ | China | $3.53B | -39% | +28% | 7% | 23.0× | 14.6% | +19.9% |
| Gentex GNTX | United States | $4.19B | -15% | +8% | 19% | 9.9× | -4.7% | +8.5% |
| CIE Automotive CIE.MC | Spain | $3.46B | -11% | +4% | 14% | 8.5× | -6.7% | +6.5% |
| Koito Manufacturing 7276.T | Japan | $4.27B | -6% | +6% | 6% | 13.3× | -0.8% | +6.1% |
| Sensteed Hi-Tech 000981.SZ | China | $3.36B | -42% | -15% | -39% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Anhui Zhongding Sealing Parts 000887.SZ | China | $3.32B | -3% | +9% | 8% | 15.1× | 3.8% | +11.4% |
| Ningbo Joyson Electronic 600699.SS | China | $4.44B | -27% | -6% | 5% | 21.9× | -1.1% | +5.0% |
| Exide Industries EXIDEIND.NS | India | $3.20B | -2% | +13% | 8% | 21.7× | 27.5% | +11.7% |
| NHK Spring 5991.T | Japan | $3.18B | -14% | +3% | 6% | 9.8× | 5.2% | +7.4% |
| Valeo FR.PA | France | $3.00B | -15% | -2% | 4% | 7.3× | -8.2% | +4.9% |
| Suzhou Inovance Automotive 301656.SZ | China | $4.95B | -31% | +28% | 1% | 676.0× | n/a | n/a |