Aptiv (APTV)
Consumer Discretionary · $9.3B market cap · SEC CIK 0001521332
fundamentals score out of 100
Next reports on Oct 28, 2026, before the open, with analysts expecting $1.35 in earnings per share.
The case for APTV
- Free cash flow of 16.5% of its market value a year: a lot of cash for the price.
- Current assets cover the near-term bills 2.0 times over.
- Price/sales of 0.5× is lower than 94% of Consumer Discretionary companies.
The case against
- Revenue fell 5.4% year over year.
- Earnings per share down 75.8%.
- Down 48.9% over the past year.
- Pricey at 42.2× earnings, against a long-run market average nearer 20×.
- Return on equity of only 2%.
- Stability is weak (35/100): beta 1.33, 3.4 years of cash flow to clear its debt, a 52% swing over the year.
What the score is made of
Each factor is half a curve over reported figures and half a rank among the other Consumer Discretionary companies (momentum is judged against fixed thresholds only), and the five are blended by weight. It describes the last filing and the current price. It is not a forecast.
| Valuewhat you pay for the earnings, sales, assets and cash | 63 |
|---|---|
| Growthhow fast revenue and earnings are moving, this year and over five | 25 |
| Profitabilityhow much of the revenue becomes profit, and how much of that is cash | 22 |
| Momentumhow the price has behaved lately | 5 |
| Stabilityhow violently it moves, what it owes and what it pays you | 35 |
- Each factor except momentum is half fixed thresholds, half rank among the 48 Consumer Discretionary companies.
Key numbers
| Price / earnings | 42.2× |
|---|---|
| Price / book | 1.48× |
| Price / sales | 0.5× |
| Revenue growth (YoY) | -5.4% |
| EPS growth (YoY) | -75.8% |
| Gross margin | 20% |
| Operating margin | 6% |
| Net margin | 1% |
| Return on equity | 2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.61× |
| Current ratio | 2.02 |
| Dividend yield | none |
| Beta | 1.33 |
| 52-week range | $42.99 – $88.93 |
| Position in that range | 4% of the way up |
| 3-month return | -31.6% |
| 1-year return | -48.9% |
Five years of financials, as filed
Pulled from Aptiv's XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. Italic rows are derived from the rows above.
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $20.4B | $19.7B | $20.1B | $17.5B | $15.6B |
| Operating income | $1.2B | $1.8B | $1.6B | $1.3B | $1.2B |
| Net income | $165M | $1.8B | $2.9B | $594M | $590M |
| Operating cash flow | $2.2B | $2.4B | $1.9B | $1.3B | $1.2B |
| Capital expenditure | $656M | $830M | $906M | $844M | $611M |
| Total assets | $23.4B | $23.5B | $24.4B | $21.9B | $18.0B |
| Total liabilities | $13.9B | $14.4B | $12.6B | $12.8B | $9.4B |
| Shareholder equity | $9.2B | $8.8B | $11.5B | $8.8B | $8.3B |
| Cash | $1.6B | $1.6B | $1.6B | $1.5B | $3.1B |
| Long-term debt | $7.5B | $7.8B | $6.2B | $6.5B | $4.1B |
| Free cash flow | $1.5B | $1.6B | $990M | $419M | $611M |
| Operating margin | 5.8% | 9.3% | 7.8% | 7.2% | 7.6% |
| Net margin | 0.8% | 9.1% | 14.7% | 3.4% | 3.8% |
| Diluted shares | 221M | 257M | 283M | 271M | 271M |
Share count is down 18.6% over 4 years. Buybacks have been shrinking the pie.
What Aptiv says it does
In December 2024, Old Aptiv (as defined below), a public limited company formed under the laws of Jersey on May 19, 2011, completed its previously announced reorganization transaction (the "Transaction," or the "reorganization transaction"), in which Old Aptiv established a new publicly-listed Jersey parent company, Aptiv Holdings Limited ("New Aptiv"), which is resident for tax purposes in Switzerland. As a result of the Transaction, all issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Old Aptiv were exchanged on a one-for-one basis for newly issued ordinary shares of New Aptiv. Following consummation of the Transaction, holders of Old Aptiv shares became ordinary shareholders of New Aptiv, Old Aptiv became a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Aptiv and New Aptiv was renamed "Aptiv PLC." The previous publicly-listed Jersey parent company, which was an Irish tax resident, is referred to as "Old Aptiv" throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K.…
Risk factors APTV lists in its 10-K
- Engineering, design and development
- Industry consolidation and disruptive new entrants
- Volume, net of contractual price reductions
- Selling, General and Administrative Expense
- Net Gain on Equity Method Transactions
- Adjusted Operating Income by Segment
- Acquisitions, Divestitures and Other Transactions
- Sale of Interest in Majority Owned Russian Subsidiary
- Motional Joint Venture Funding and Ownership Restructuring Transactions
- Debt Modifications and Extinguishments
- Aggregate Principal Amount (in millions)
- Guarantor Summarized Financial Information
- Significant Accounting Policies and Critical Accounting Estimates
- Acquisitions and Other Transactions