Financial Contrast: Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) and Pinewood Technologies Group (OTCMKTS:PINWF)

Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) and Pinewood Technologies Group (OTCMKTS:PINWF) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Volatility & Risk

Visteon has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinewood Technologies Group has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Visteon and Pinewood Technologies Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Visteon	0	3	12	0	2.80
Pinewood Technologies Group	0	0	0	0	0.00

Visteon presently has a consensus target price of $132.92, suggesting a potential upside of 14.76%. Given Visteon’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Visteon is more favorable than Pinewood Technologies Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Visteon and Pinewood Technologies Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Visteon	$3.79 billion	0.82	$201.00 million	$8.21	14.11
Pinewood Technologies Group	$53.40 million	6.96	$66.32 million	N/A	N/A

Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than Pinewood Technologies Group.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

99.7% of Visteon shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Visteon shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Visteon and Pinewood Technologies Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Visteon	5.99%	15.93%	7.63%
Pinewood Technologies Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Visteon beats Pinewood Technologies Group on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Visteon

Visteon Corporation, an automotive technology company, designs, manufactures, and sells automotive electronics and connected car solutions for vehicle manufacturers worldwide. The company provides instrument clusters, including analog gauge clusters for 2-D and 3-D display-based devices; information displays that integrate a range of user interface technologies and graphics management capabilities, such as active privacy, TrueColor enhancement, local dimming, cameras, optics, haptic feedback, and light effects; and infotainment and connected car solutions, including scalable Android infotainment for seamless connectivity, as well as onboard artificial intelligence-based voice assistants with natural language understanding. It offers wired and wireless battery management systems; power electronics units; and telematics control units to enable secure connected car services, software updates, and data. In addition, the company provides SmartCore, an automotive-grade, integrated domain controller; SmartCore Runtime, a middleware enabling communication between domains and apps to be shown on any display; SmartCore Studio, a PC-based configuration tool to generate hypervisor configurations; and body domain modules, which integrate various functions, such as central gateway, body controls, comfort, and vehicle access solutions, into one device. Visteon Corporation was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Van Buren, Michigan.

About Pinewood Technologies Group

Pinewood Technologies Group PLC is an automotive software provider. The Company is engaged in the dealer management software business. Pinewood Technologies Group PLC, formerly known as Pendragon PLC, is based in United Kingdom.