CarMax: 44 Stores, Sales Trends & Growth 2026

Growth

CarMax against its category

The biggest tracked US car dealers chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks CarMax's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

#	Chain	YoY share
1	C CarMax	+0.3%
2	T Toyota	-1.3%
3	H Honda	+8.8%
4	M Mercedes-Benz	+13.1%
5	L Lexus	-1.7%
6	B BMW	+11.6%
7	H Hyundai	+7.9%
8	F Ford	+6.6%
9	K Kia	+10.0%
10	S Subaru	-1.9%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

Store footprint

Store map

44 tracked CarMax locations across 17 US states.

Tracked stores by state

Virginia 7
Georgia 6
Maryland 6
Florida 4
North Carolina 4
Texas 3
California 2
New York 2
South Carolina 2
Delaware 1
Idaho 1
Illinois 1
Kentucky 1
Nevada 1
Tennessee 1
Utah 1
Wisconsin 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at CarMax

Tracked chains CarMax customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.