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Sixt SESIX2.DECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Germany · EUR·Financials›Finance/Rental/Leasing

German car rental and mobility-services company renting vehicles and offering car-sharing and subscription services worldwide.

≈ A German Hertz/Avis, generally viewed as better-runMomentum strong 71
Mkt cap
$3.67B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
42%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$3.03M
20-day average traded
P/B
1.67×
price to book
ROE
15.0%
delivered
Implied ROE
15.8%
what the price asks
Official | Implied
BBB / BBB+
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
6 days
12 Nov 2026
Close · EUR€75.40
1D-1.1%
1W+1.1%
1M+9.3%
3M+6.0%
6M+4.5%
YTD+6.5%
1Y+1.8%
ATR %2.4%
52w lowhigh3.6% off high

What Sixt does

German car rental and mobility-services company renting vehicles and offering car-sharing and subscription services worldwide.

Earns daily rental fees plus insurance, extras and one-way charges added to each booking. The main cost is the fleet, bought from carmakers and sold again after a short time, so used-car resale values matter. The listed shares are non-voting preference shares; the Sixt family controls the voting ordinary shares.

In one line: A German Hertz/Avis, generally viewed as better-run.

Products and services

  • Car rental
  • Car subscription (Sixt+)
  • Corporate/business travel mobility
  • Ride-hailing/mobility app

Customers

  • Business travelers
  • Leisure travelers
  • Corporate fleet customers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financials/Consumer discretionary
  • Car rental & mobility
  • Vehicle rental, leasing & mobility…

What could go right

  • Business/leisure travel recovery
  • US market expansion

What could go wrong

  • Used-car residual value risk on fleet disposals
  • Travel-demand cyclicality

Moat: narrow (brand, scale, distribution). Strong premium brand and airport/city location network across Europe/US, but a capital-intensive, fleet-residual-value-exposed business.

Headquarters: Pullach, Germany · Founded: 1912

Named competitors

Sixt at a glance

Size Sixt (SIX2.DE) is a Germany Financials company (Finance/Rental/Leasing) with a market value of $3.67B, the 86th largest of 205 Germany companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at €75.40 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 4.5%, against -12.5% for the median peer and +2.6% for the Germany market (cap-weighted) — 3rd highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 7.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.0%); the operating margin is 9.3% (peer median 29.9%).

Valuation It trades at 1.67× book value against a peer median of 1.39× (8th most expensive of 20).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 15.8%; Sixt delivers 15.0%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Credit Sixt has 4 bonds outstanding ($2.00B), rated BBB by the agencies and trading like BBB+ at a weighted spread of 99 bp.

Next results Next results expected around 12 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026SIX2.DE 106Peer median 89
Six months, rebased to 100: Sixt against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Sixt financials

Reported figures in EUR; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue€4.46B€4.28B€4.00B€3.62B€3.07B
Revenue growth—+7%+11%+18%—
Gross profit€2.24B€2.18B€2.09B€1.89B€1.65B
EBITDA€679M€690M€597M€643M€625M
Net income€304M€286M€244M€335M€386M
Free cash flow€35.6M-€174M€990M-€151M-€266M
Capital expenditure€89.5M€86.0M€89.9M€61.3M€64.8M
Total debt€4.50B€3.62B€3.13B€3.30B€2.51B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Sixt competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

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Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Sixt is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

0%10%20%20×40×8253BFH3360WSCPFSIHUDCO3769IREDA029780M&MFINMANAPPURAMENVALICHSGFINSLM82528572HTGCPOONAWALLASIX2.DEReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Sixt is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%20%40%0%20%40%8253BFH3360WSCPFSIHUDCO3769IREDAM&MFINENVASLM8252HTGCPOONAWALLASIX2.DEROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Sixt is the large dot.

Sixt competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (SIX2.DE vs HTZ vs CAR)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Sixt SIX2.DE$3.67B+4%+7%15%1.67×15.8%
Hertz Global HTZ$585M-64%+3%n/an/an/a
Avis Budget CAR$4.20B-18%-1%n/an/an/a

How Sixt compares with its peers

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.

Sixt against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureSIX2.DEPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+9.3%+0.9%2nd highest of 21
6-month return+4.5%-12.5%3rd highest of 21
Return on equity15.0%12.4%7th highest of 20
Price / book1.67×1.39×8th most expensive of 20
Trailing P/E11.6×10.8×9th most expensive of 18
ROE the price implies15.8%12.2%9th most demanding of 20
ROE delivered15.0%13.8%7th highest of 18
Bond spread99 bp244 bptightest of 8

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Sixt SIX2.DEGermany$3.67B+4%+7%15%1.67×15.8%15.0%
Credit Saison 8253.TJapan$3.62B-10%+10%9%0.73×6.3%9.2%
Bread Financial BFHUnited States$3.87B+17%+2%16%1.13×12.2%15.9%
Far East Horizon 3360.HKHong Kong$3.44B-25%+1%8%0.45×4.5%7.6%
WillScot WSCUnited States$3.42B-33%-3%-7%3.75×35.8%-7.1%
PennyMac Financial Services PFSIUnited States$3.41B-28%+4%6%0.78×10.2%5.6%
Housing & Urban Development HUDCO.NSIndia$3.39B-30%+22%22%1.39×31.5%21.7%
GMO Payment Gateway 3769.TJapan$3.98B+6%+13%22%5.02×32.4%21.5%
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency IREDA.NSIndia$3.31B-18%+17%14%2.18×42.4%14.4%
Samsung Card 029780.KSSouth Korea$3.30B-21%+11%7%0.51×4.2%n/a
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services M&MFIN.NSIndia$4.12B-15%+15%14%1.41×23.7%13.8%
Manappuram Finance MANAPPURAM.NSIndia$3.23B+3%+5%7%1.90×33.0%n/a
Avis Budget CARUnited States$4.20B-18%-1%n/an/an/an/a
Enova International ENVAUnited States$4.22B-1%+20%27%2.72×26.6%26.8%
LIC Housing Finance LICHSGFIN.NSIndia$3.12B-9%-1%14%0.67×11.6%14.3%
SLM SLMUnited States$3.10B-25%-6%25%1.55×13.8%24.7%
Marui 8252.TJapan$3.09B-7%+8%12%2.12×7.1%12.4%
Blue Owl Technology Finance OTFUnited States$4.36B-13%+95%5%0.58×4.9%4.8%
ACOM 8572.TJapan$4.38B-12%+7%9%0.96×5.6%9.3%
Hercules Capital HTGCUnited States$3.06B0%+40%16%1.32×10.4%15.7%
Poonawalla Fincorp POONAWALLA.NSIndia$4.42B+4%+77%9%3.02×47.4%9.2%

Sixt bonds and credit

Sixt has 4 bonds outstanding with $2.00B face value. The agencies rate it BBB; its bonds trade like BBB+. Weighted yield 3.97%, a spread of 99 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Sixt's main competitors?
Named competitors: Hertz Global (HTZ), Avis Budget Group (CAR), Europcar (private) (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Credit Saison (8253.T), Bread Financial (BFH), Far East Horizon (3360.HK), WillScot (WSC), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Housing & Urban Development (HUDCO.NS).
Is Sixt expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 1.67× against a peer median of 1.39×, 8th most expensive of 20 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 15.8%; Sixt delivers 15.0%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Sixt stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +4.5% against -12.5% for the median peer; over one year +1.8%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.