CBRE vs CVNA Comparison

CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, providing brokerage, leasing, facilities and project management, valuation, mortgage services, and investment management to occupiers and investors across every major property type. The firm in its current form traces its lineage to a 1998 merger of CB Commercial with UK-based Richard Ellis International, whose own history goes back to London in the 1770s. Today, CBRE employs more than 140,000 people serving clients across more than 250 markets in over 100 countries.

Carvana Co is an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars. The company derives revenue from used vehicle sales, wholesale vehicle sales and other sales and revenues. The other sales and revenues include sales of loans originated and sold in securitization transactions or to financing partners, commissions received on VSCs and sales of GAP waiver coverage. The foundation of the business is retail vehicle unit sales. This drives the majority of the revenue and allows the company to capture additional revenue streams associated with financing, VSCs, auto insurance and GAP waiver coverage, as well as trade-in vehicles.