Company Analysis

Visteon Corporation (VC)

Nasdaq: VC · Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories · Van Buren Township, MI · filing with the SEC since 2000
Grade5.3
◀ Past 3.7● Present 6.5▶ Future 5.4

The grade of Visteon Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.3/10
◀ Past3.730% of the headline
● Present6.540% of the headline
▶ Future5.430% 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?

3.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

3 warning events since 2017; the latest 2022-02-23.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 36 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Visteon Corporation's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2017-12-15); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2022-02-23) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
3.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Visteon Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span2.0%bottom 22% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 1% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 47% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak19.4%top 43% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.1% a year. 22% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 19 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 27 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Visteon Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 22% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 19 sales (14 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 33% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 43% 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?

6.5/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 13%: 13¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 54%: owes 54¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 64th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Visteon Corporation earned about 13 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 16 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 54 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 24% of its family
  • return on equitytop 21% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 44% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 41% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
6.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 40% of 35 in its family; net margin 5.3%.

weight 33% of this tense · 60th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Visteon Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 28% by size; a net margin of 5.3% ranks in the top 24%; revenue growth of 0.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 33% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$3.77Btop 28% of its family
  • net margin5.3%top 24% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth0.1%bottom 33% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
7.3/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 27% of 27 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2015.

weight 22% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 27 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Visteon Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lawande, Sachin (CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2015-07-01, 11.4 years (top 20% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.9 years (top 9%); 7 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (bottom 48%; 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 charge7 in three years among 19 peoplebottom 48% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.9 yearstop 9% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record11.4 yearstop 20% 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?

5.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

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

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 35 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Visteon Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $771 million against debt of $283 million leaves 14.4% of its assets as net cash, top 17% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10.9% of revenue (top 16%); a gross margin of 14.1% (bottom 33%); research spending of 5.8% of revenue (top 48%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets14.4%top 17% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue10.9%top 16% of its family
  • gross margin14.1%bottom 33% of its family
  • research spending against revenue5.8%top 48% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.7/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 43% of 34 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 57th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Visteon Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.1% a year over the last three filed years against 2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 49% of its family); the newest year grew -2.5% (bottom 25%); research spending grew 3.9% a year (top 38%); capital spending grew 23.7% a year (top 8%) (its annual reports). Visteon Corporation reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Instrumentcluster at $1.7 billion (46%), Audioandinfotainment at $508 million (14%), Climatecontrols at $500 million (13%), and 3 more; 3 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.9 points a yearbottom 49% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-2.5%bottom 25% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending3.9%top 38% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending23.7%top 8% 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
3.2/10

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

bottom 32% of 33 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 33 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Visteon Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.9% below the $3.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 41% of its family); net income of $201 million against a prior three-year average of $329 million (bottom 32%); a net margin of 5.3% against 8.4% before (bottom 23%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-3.9%bottom 41% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-39%bottom 32% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.1 pointsbottom 23% 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

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