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Copart, Inc. (CPRT)

Online vehicle auctions and salvage yards, 62% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending July 31, 2026, filed September 29, 2026. Ranked 26 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Within reach now

22%

End of 2028

32%

Employees, annual report

11,900

Leading staffing pattern

Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five

  • Now22%
  • End of 202730%
  • End of 202832%
  • End of 203033%

What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures

  • Stays with people 67%
  • Becomes checking a model's work 22%
  • Handed over with lighter checks 11%

Copart states approximately 11,900 full and part-time employees at July 31, 2026, 62% in the U.S. and 38% in its International segment, running online vehicle auctions from its yards, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at motor vehicle wholesaling, where auto auctions are counted, by description (c).

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 22% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 17% people work and 50% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

11,900 employees as of July 31, 2026 (stated). The filing states approximately 62% of employees located in the U.S. (about 7,400) and 38% in the International segment (about 4,600).

The filing: “As of July 31, 2026, we had approximately 11,900 full and part-time employees, of which approximately 62% were located in the U.S. and 38% were located within our International segment.”

The workforce as industry patterns

PatternShareReason, from the filing
Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers100%The filing describes online vehicle auctions and salvage services run from its yards for insurance companies and other sellers, with no count by kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at motor vehicle wholesaling, where auto auctions are counted, by description (c).

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 11,900 full and part-time employees, about 7,400 in the U.S. (1,300 in management roles and above) and 4,600 international (400 in management); no union share is stated.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

What the filing says about AI

9 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names its own AI tools, Co.ai for total loss determination and salvage valuation using machine learning and computer vision and IntelliSeller for minimum bid values and re-auction timing, and generative AI among the tools of threat actors.

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

PeriodEmployeesFiledFiling
2026-07-3111,9002026-09-2910-K
2025-07-3111,6002025-09-2610-K
2024-07-3111,7002024-09-3010-K
2023-07-3110,2002023-09-2810-K
2022-07-319,5002022-09-2710-K
2021-07-318,6002021-09-2710-K
2020-07-317,6002020-09-2810-K
2019-07-317,3272019-09-3010-K
2018-07-316,0262018-10-0110-K
2017-07-315,3232017-09-2810-K
2016-07-314,8442016-09-2810-K
2015-07-314,2672015-09-2510-K
2014-07-314,1792014-09-2910-K
2013-07-313,8752013-09-3010-K
2012-07-312,9812012-10-0110-K
2011-07-312,8252011-09-2810-K
2010-07-312,8342010-09-2310-K
2009-07-312,7132009-09-2910-K
2008-07-312,9752008-09-2910-K
2007-07-312,5362007-10-0110-K
2006-07-312,1332006-10-3110-K
2005-07-312,4212005-10-1410-K
2004-07-312,2352004-10-1410-K
2003-07-312,7762003-10-1710-K
2002-07-312,5322002-10-2910-K
2001-07-312,0782001-10-0310-K405
2000-07-311,8032000-10-2610-K405
1999-07-311,3631999-10-1810-K405
1998-07-311,1811998-10-1410-K405
1997-07-311,0501997-10-2810-K
1996-07-311,0301996-10-2810-K

Limits of this reading

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-405731, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.

The report on Copart, Inc., $29

This page as a document to keep, with what it does not show: the share within reach at every date on three paces and two reliabilities, a typical workforce of this shape at the stated headcount role by role and task by task (the industries' staffing, never the company's roster), where to start, what changes for the people and what they would learn, every sentence in the filing that names AI, the headcount by year, the companies read with the same leading pattern, the method and a citation line. To print or save as a PDF, open again in your browser for a year.

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Questions about this company

How much of Copart, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
An estimated 22% now and 32% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Copart, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
How many people does Copart, Inc. employ?
11,900 as of July 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending July 31, 2026 states. About 62% in the U.S.
What kinds of work make up Copart, Inc.'s workforce?
Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 17% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
What does Copart, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
9 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 1, 1, 1, 4, 4 and 9 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
How is this estimated?
Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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