CVNA · Forward model · Wholesale sales and revenues
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Wholesale sales and revenues
Wholesale vehicles sold - overwhelmingly trade-ins Carvana does not retail - plus ADESA wholesale marketplace fees; $1,343M in 2026 Q2, 18.2% of revenue. Volume is a by-product of retail transaction volume and of the ADESA auction business, so wholesale units track retail units with a wider amplitude. Monetisation is blended revenue per wholesale vehicle, because the reported revenue line includes marketplace revenue that Carvana's own disclosed per-unit metric explicitly excludes by footnote.
Latest: $3.36B (2031Q2E)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2023Q1 | $618M |
| 2023Q2 | $777M |
| 2023Q3 | $610M |
| 2023Q4 | $499M |
| 2024Q1 | $657M |
| 2024Q2 | $720M |
| 2024Q3 | $786M |
| 2024Q4 | $678M |
| 2025Q1 | $863M |
| 2025Q2 | $1.02B |
| 2025Q3 | $1.18B |
| 2025Q4 | $988M |
| 2026Q1 | $1.08B |
| 2026Q2 | $1.34B |
| 2026Q3E | $1.51B |
| 2026Q4E | $1.26B |
| 2027Q1E | $1.52B |
| 2027Q2E | $1.69B |
| 2027Q3E | $1.88B |
| 2027Q4E | $1.57B |
| 2028Q1E | $1.87B |
| 2028Q2E | $2.06B |
| 2028Q3E | $2.29B |
| 2028Q4E | $1.89B |
| 2029Q1E | $2.25B |
| 2029Q2E | $2.47B |
| 2029Q3E | $2.73B |
| 2029Q4E | $2.25B |
| 2030Q1E | $2.66B |
| 2030Q2E | $2.90B |
| 2030Q3E | $3.19B |
| 2030Q4E | $2.62B |
| 2031Q1E | $3.09B |
| 2031Q2E | $3.36B |
Assumptions & reasoning
- Fourteen quarters of the disclosed 'Wholesale sales and revenues' line, copied from the shareholder letters. Nothing here is apportioned or estimated.
- The price per unit is blended and derived, not disclosed: $1,343M over 105,052 wholesale vehicles is $12,784, against the $10,633 Carvana publishes for wholesale vehicles alone. The $226M difference is marketplace revenue that footnote 3 excludes from the per-unit figure. It is arithmetically implied by two disclosed numbers, so it is reported here as a residual and never promoted to a vertical of its own.
- Seasonality [Q1 0.99, Q2 1.04, Q3 1.10, Q4 0.87] is the most pronounced of the three lines, because trade-in supply and auction throughput peak with the spring and summer selling season and collapse in the holiday quarter. The Q4 trough is the reliable part - the weakest quarter in every year-window measured, on a within-quarter spread of 0.045. The Q3 factor is the shakier one: across all ten available ratios its spread is 0.165, because the ADESA marketplace inside this line has been scaling all through the window, so part of the apparent third-quarter lift is ramp rather than season.
- The units in the driver are the deseasonalised 101,012 rather than the printed 105,052, for the same reason as retail: the engine reapplies the 1.04 second-quarter factor itself.
- Wholesale grew 44.4% in units and fell 1.1% in revenue per vehicle in the same quarter. This line adds volume, not price, which is why the price drift starts negative and only recovers to a nominal 0.3% a quarter.
- The 11.76% margin is disclosed wholesale gross profit of $158M over $1,343M of wholesale revenue. No capital expenditure is assigned here: Carvana discloses no capex split, and the reconditioning and inspection capacity it is actually building serves the retail line.