Company Analysis

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (CVGI)

Nasdaq: CVGI · Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories · New Albany, OH · filing with the SEC since 2004
Grade2.5
◀ Past 2.0● Present 2.6▶ Future 3.0

The grade of Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
2.5/10
◀ Past2.030% of the headline
● Present2.640% of the headline
▶ Future3.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

2.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
1.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2023-02-02.

weight 33% of this tense · 18th percentile among 36 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2023-02-02); a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2020-03-16) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
2.1/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 5 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 21st percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $662 million in fiscal 2016 to $649 million in fiscal 2025, down 0.2% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 33% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.2%bottom 13% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 18% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 28% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak33.2%bottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 1.5% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 20th percentile among 27 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 30% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

2.6/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -17%: lost 17¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 66%: owes 66¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. lost about 17 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 17 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.3% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 39% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 24% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 47% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 33% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
2.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 26% of 35 in its family; net margin -3.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 26th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $649 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 31% by size; a net margin of -3.5% ranks in the bottom 27%; revenue growth of -6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 21% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$649Mbottom 31% of its family
  • net margin-3.5%bottom 27% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-6.0%bottom 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
0.6/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 6% of 27 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026.

weight 22% of this tense · 6th percentile among 27 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Ruppel, David (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-11-12, under a month (bottom 2% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.1 years (bottom 9%); 13 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 8%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge13 in three years among 11 peoplebottom 8% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed4.1 yearsbottom 9% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the recordunder a monthbottom 2% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 37% of 35 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash from operations less capital spending is 5.2% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 10.5% (bottom 24%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue5.2%top 50% of its family
  • gross margin10.5%bottom 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 30% of 34 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -6% a year over the last three filed years against -0.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 28% of its family); the newest year grew -10.3% (bottom 10%); research spending grew 5.3% a year (top 35%); capital spending grew -18.5% a year (bottom 17%) (its annual reports). Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Global Seating at $287 million (44%), Global Electrical Systems at $203 million (31%), Trim Systems and Components at $159 million (24%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-5.8 points a yearbottom 28% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-10.3%bottom 10% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending5.3%top 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-18.5%bottom 17% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
1.6/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 16% of 33 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 16th percentile among 33 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $649 million in fiscal 2025 came in 6.7% below the $695 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 23% of its family); net income of $23 million against a prior three-year average of $142 thousand (bottom 6%); a net margin of -3.5% against -0.2% before (bottom 20%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-6.7%bottom 23% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 6% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.3 pointsbottom 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CVGI · research, not advice