$CVNA

Ernie Garcia III

Carvana

Founder, Chairman & CEO • Since 2012 • Consumer Discretionary

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

72/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $827M → $889M (+7.5% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (net income): $210M → $1.4B (+570.0% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

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Overview

Ernie Garcia III is the founder, chairman & ceo of Carvana since 2012. Carvana is a Consumer Discretionary company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, founded in 2012, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

Ernie holds the chief executive role at Carvana with the title Founder, Chairman & CEO — in post since 2012. This page is the concise leadership record for Carvana in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format. Ernie Garcia III is a founder of the company — a distinction shared by only a minority of the chief executives in this index.

At a Glance

Sector: Consumer Discretionary
Ticker: $CVNA
Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona
Founded: 2012
CEO since: 2012
Index: S&P 500 (#86 of 500)