Visteon (VC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thu, April 23, 2026 astatine 9:49 AM CDT 41 min read

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Thursday, April 23, 2026 astatine 9 a.m. ET

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Sachin S. Lawande

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Jerome J. Rouquet

• Head of Investor Relations — Chris Doyle

Sachin S. Lawande: Thank you, Chris, and bully morning, everyone. Visteon Corporation delivered a coagulated commencement to the twelvemonth with archetypal 4th income coming up of our expectations. Net income were $954 million, up 2% twelvemonth implicit year, contempt little manufacture and lawsuit conveyance production. New merchandise launches and lawsuit recoveries much than offset the anticipated headwinds from little BMS volumes and conveyance discontinuations astatine Ford. Growth implicit marketplace successful the 4th was 3%. Adjusted EBITDA was $104 million, broadly successful enactment with our expectations. During the quarter, we saw elevated semiconductor costs, portion the associated recoveries from customers are expected to beryllium weighted much to the aboriginal portion of the year.

Adjusted escaped currency travel was antagonistic $23 million, chiefly driven by mean seasonality and higher inventory levels. We proceed to support a beardown equilibrium expanse with nett currency of $385 million, providing ample flexibility to execute our superior allocation strategy. New concern wins were conscionable implicit $1 billion, led by cockpit domain controllers and integer clusters. A cardinal item was our high-performance compute triumph with SAIC successful China, a 3rd lawsuit for AI-based astute cockpit systems, reinforcing our first-mover vantage successful this emerging technology, akin to our aboriginal enactment with SmartCore. Q1 was a engaged 4th for operations: 20 launches crossed 11 automakers, including connected respective high-profile vehicles, underscoring our continued execution excellence successful a dynamic proviso concatenation environment.

Finally, we proceed to instrumentality superior to shareholders. During the quarter, we returned $40 cardinal done stock repurchases and dividends. Overall, the 4th reflects a bully commencement to the twelvemonth with beardown execution crossed each parts of our concern and continued advancement connected our strategical priorities.

Sachin S. Lawande: Turning to leafage three. This leafage shows our Q1 income show by region, representing a coagulated commencement to the twelvemonth with balanced planetary lawsuit demand. In the Americas, request for cockpit electronics was strong, driven by ramp-up of precocious launched products, including caller show programs with Nissan and GM. We besides benefited from one-time lawsuit recoveries related to anterior EV measurement declines. Offsetting these were the anticipated headwinds from conveyance discontinuations astatine Ford and little BMS volumes owed to changes successful EV policies and incentives. In Europe, we benefited from beardown ramp-ups connected respective palmy conveyance programs.