Visteon (VC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026 at 9 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

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

TAKEAWAYS

  • Annual Net Sales -- $3.77 billion, reflecting a 3% decrease year over year, primarily due to headwinds in the US battery management systems (BMS) and lower Chinese market sales.
  • Displays Sales Growth -- Approximately 20% increase over the prior year, driven by advanced display demand and customer launches.
  • Record Adjusted EBITDA -- $492 million, equaling 13.1% of sales, the highest margin achieved in company history.
  • Adjusted Free Cash Flow -- $292 million for the year, conversion ratio of nearly 60% from EBITDA, highlighting operating efficiency.
  • New Business Wins -- $7.4 billion in 2025, a 20% increase over 2024, with displays and SmartCore making up about 75% of total wins.
  • Capital Deployment -- Over $120 million allocated to M&A and shareholder returns in 2025, plus $180 million invested in CapEx and M&A supporting new program launches and vertical integration.
  • Segment Strategy -- Notable $500 million new business secured with Toyota, and largest digital program win in the two-wheeler segment with Honda (approximately $400 million lifetime value, launches beginning in 2027).
  • Geographic Performance -- 5% market growth in the Americas despite an 8% BMS sales headwind; 11 percentage points of market outperformance in Europe; flat sales in rest of Asia, with growth in India and Southeast Asia offset by Japan.
  • Q4 Sales -- $948 million, positively impacted by $30 million from a customer claim on a US EV program; discrete headwinds included fire at Novelis (Ford) and cyberattack at JLR.
  • Q4 Adjusted EBITDA -- $110 million, margin of 11.6%, with normalized margin (excluding one-time items) at approximately 12.5%.
  • 2026 Sales Guidance -- Revenue expected in range of $3.63 billion-$3.83 billion; “low single-digit” customer-weighted production decline baked into the outlook.
  • 2026 Adjusted EBITDA Guidance -- $455 million-$495 million with a midpoint margin of 12.8%, reflecting a 30 basis point improvement over normalized 2025 margins.
  • 2026 Adjusted Free Cash Flow Guidance -- $170 million-$210 million (conversion around 40% at the midpoint); capital expenditures planned at $150 million.
  • Dividend Increase -- Quarterly dividend raised to $0.375 per share, a 36% increase, totaling approximately $40 million annually.
  • Memory Cost Inflation -- 2026 guidance assumes a year-over-year increase in memory costs equating to approximately 2% of sales, with active customer recovery efforts.
  • Vertical Integration Progress -- Company accelerated insourcing and manufacturing capabilities, including in-molded brackets, expanded optical bonding, and in-house automotive cameras.

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RISKS

  • US BMS Volume Expected to Decline by Nearly 50% -- Management stated 2026 BMS volume in the Americas will drop by almost half year over year, presenting a material headwind.
  • Program Discontinuations at Ford -- 2026 outlook reflects lost sales from discontinued vehicle models with no successor content.
  • Memory Chip Supply Tightness -- Sachin S. Lawande said, “the supply is gonna be tight everybody in all industries. Right? And automotive will also have the same situation.”
  • Pricing and Customer Recoveries -- 2026 guidance embeds a net sales headwind of ~2% from typical pricing reductions and lower commercial recoveries not fully offset by tailwinds.

SUMMARY

Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) highlighted record profitability and strong cash flow generation for 2025, with new business wins outpacing prior years and accelerating diversification across products and geographies. Management introduced 2026 guidance reflecting anticipated headwinds from a sharp downturn in US BMS volumes, discontinued Ford programs, and industry-wide memory cost inflation. The 2026 outlook incorporates flat to modest sales growth and stable EBITDA margins, with an inflection to higher revenue growth anticipated as these discrete obstacles abate post-2026 and as large-scale program wins, particularly in displays and AI-driven cockpit solutions, contribute. Execution against vertical integration and disciplined capital allocation underpin continued margin resilience, while capital returns to shareholders are slated to increase meaningfully.

  • Company expects the majority of new program launches and revenue ramp to occur in the back half of 2026, particularly from initiatives with Toyota and in China.
  • High performance compute system and AI cockpit offerings are gaining traction, evidenced by new wins in China with Cherry and Geely, and expanded capabilities for Cognito AI.
  • Management stated, “We have assumed a roughly 3% penetration of EVs with our customers. I,” characterizing this assumption as conservative and suggesting potential sales upside if market conditions improve.
  • M&A pipeline remains robust, with up to $300 million potential deployment in 2026 focused on technology/capability accretive, bolt-on targets intended to enhance software and engineering capabilities.
  • Currency movements and customer recoveries related to prior semiconductor supply disruptions are modest factors impacting 2026 sales projections.
  • The company completed a $100 million pension de-risking in Q4 and ended the year with a net cash position of $472 million, supporting financial flexibility for growth and shareholder returns.
  • Investor Day is scheduled for June 25, 2026, where long-term growth and value-creation strategies will be detailed.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

  • BMS (Battery Management System): Electronic system managing and protecting rechargeable vehicle batteries, crucial for electric vehicles.
  • SmartCore: Visteon's integrated cockpit domain controller, consolidating multiple electronic control units into one system.
  • High Performance Compute (HPC) System: Advanced cockpit platform enabling complex tasks such as AI workloads and real-time vehicle data processing.
  • SDV (Software Defined Vehicle): Automotive design paradigm where vehicle functions, features, and user experiences are delivered and updated through software.
  • Cognito AI: Visteon’s proprietary in-cockpit AI assistant system, supporting multimodal interaction (voice and vision).
  • Adjusted Free Cash Flow: Cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures and certain non-recurring items, excluding impact of financing and accounting changes.
  • Commercial Recoveries: Negotiated payments from customers to offset extraordinary supplier or input cost increases (e.g., semiconductor shortages).

Full Conference Call Transcript

Sachin S. Lawande: Thank you, Chris, and good morning, everyone. Overall, we delivered a strong performance in 2025, several industry challenges. Net sales for the year were $3,768 million, coming in largely as we expected at the beginning of the year. From a product perspective, displays will stand out with sales growing approximately 20% year over year, reflecting strong customer demand for larger and advanced displays as well as our execution capabilities. Growth over market was muted in 2025 because of two well understood factors we have discussed throughout the year. First, battery management systems continued to be a headwind as EV demand in the US was softer than originally anticipated.

And second, in China, our results were impacted by ongoing shift in market dynamics, including the continued loss of share by global OEMs. These two factors negatively impacted GOM by about seven percentage points. From a profitability standpoint, 2025 was a record year, Adjusted EBITDA reached $492,000,000 or 13.1% of sales, representing the highest level in the company's history. We also generated very strong adjusted free cash flow reflecting disciplined execution and continued focus on cost and capital efficiency. New business activity was another highlight of the year. We delivered a record $7,400,000,000 of new business wins, surpassing our prior peak. Finally, a strong balance sheet and cash generation continue to provide significant flexibility.

During the year, we deployed more than $120,000,000 towards M&A and shareholder returns while maintaining a strong net cash position. Turning to page three.

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Sachin S. Lawande: Before I go deeper into our 2025 results, I want to take a step back and briefly update you on the strategic work underway to build Visteon Corporation’s next phase of growth. While the majority of the benefits will come later, some of these initiatives are expected to show results in 2026. We are diversifying our customer base by expanding our presence with specification automakers, have historically been underrepresented at Visteon. In 2025, we secured another $500,000,000 of new business with Toyota.

Building on the momentum from prior year, and launched new products with Toyota, Mahindra, Tata, and Maruti Suzuki We expect revenue from these OEMs to begin growing in 2026 and to ramp steadily over the next several years making them an important driver of our future growth. At the same time, software defined vehicles are now extending into other parts of the broader mobility ecosystem particularly commercial vehicles and two wheelers. While we have served these adjacent markets in the past, the changes driven by this trends are making them significantly more attractive growth opportunities while also helping us diversify our exposure. In 2025, nearly 15% of our new business wins came from two wheeler and commercial vehicle manufacturers.

Compared to about 4% of our sales today. A particularly important milestone was winning the largest digital program in the two wheeler industry, approximately $400,000,000 in lifetime revenue with Honda. Launches for this program are scheduled to begin in 2027. Our manufacturing footprint and cost structure have long been a competitive advantage for Visteon, To further strengthen this advantage, we have increased vertical integration in manufacturing, to simplify the supply chain and capture incremental value. In 2025, we accelerated the insourcing of the molding of metal brackets used for large displays using an advanced lightweight textile molding process. We are the only tier one supplier that has this capability in house in the industry.

We have also increased our optical bonding capacity in various plants, Finally, we began manufacturing automotive cameras to complement our in house surround vision software enabling a complete end to end solution. More broadly, investing in the business remains a top capital allocation priority. In 2025, we deployed approximately $180,000,000 across CapEx and M&A to support new program launches technology development, and vertical integration initiatives. Advancing our technology portfolio and aligning it closely with market trends is a key element of our strategic priorities. Today, I would like to highlight two emerging product trends in particular, advanced displays based on OLED technology, and AI in the cockpit.

In 2025, nearly 50% of our new business wins were for displays, surpassing 2024 record levels and positioning this product for sustainable revenue growth. Importantly, we secured significant OLED display wins with luxury OEMs, in establishing Visteon's leadership in this segment of the auto market. While TFT displays will represent the bulk of the automotive market for displays, OLED displays will have greater share in the luxury vehicles. AI technology is advancing at an extraordinary pace Newer AI models deliver significantly higher intelligence, with far fewer parameters, enabling AI to move from the cloud to device based architectures, an essential shift for automotive applications. We are addressing this opportunity through two complementary offerings.

First is our high performance compute hardware which provides the processing headroom and architectural required to run AI workloads in the vehicle. Early in 2025, we secured a win with Cherry in China and more recently, follow on business with Geely as they expand this architecture into the Lincoln co brand building on our Zika win in 2024. These are the most advanced cockpit systems in the industry, and are scheduled to launch in the 2026 reflecting both the pace of innovation our ability to execute alongside our customers. Second is Cognito AI, our in house AI based smart assistant for the cockpit.

Over the past year, we expanded Cognito AI to support multimodal AI, combining large language models with vision models, allowing the system to interpret visual information such as road signs and symbols, alongside voice interaction, to deliver more contextual and intelligent driver experiences. Following CES, we have seen growing customer interest and deeper technical collaboration Together, our high performance compute systems and Cognito AI positions Visteon at the forefront of bringing AI into the automotive cockpit. Turning to page four. This slide provides more color on a original sales performance for the year. In the Americas, our sales were impacted by lower customer vehicle production, and by the steep drop in production of EVs at GM and Celanus.

DMS sales took a further step down in Q4 after the expiration of the EV tax credit and resulted in a full year headwind of about 8% to our 2025 Americas sales. Offsetting these headwinds were a strong growth in digital clusters, displays, and infotainment programs at Ford, VW, Toyota, and Nissan on vehicles such as the Bronco, Tarok, Camry, and the Murano. With a strong performance in cockpit electronics, we were able to deliver a 5% growth of our market in this region despite the significant reduction in BMS sales. Europe was a standout market for us despite lower customer vehicle production, and the cybersecurity related disruption at JLR, one of our larger customers in the region.

Our strong performance was driven by the ramp up of newly launched products, mostly large displays in digital clusters, with Audi, Ford, and Renault delivering an outstanding 11 growth over market in this region. We also benefited from our recently acquired engineering services businesses, which is an important strategic capability we are building starting in Europe. In rest of Asia, our sales were essentially flat as our growth in India and Southeast Asia were offset by declines with some customers in Japan. Our market outperformance in the region was driven by two wheeler programs with Honda, Royal Enfield, and TVS. We also benefited from a recently launched digital cluster program with Mitsubishi that is going on multiple car lines.

Finally, as expected, sales in China declined year over year resulting in a significant headwind to our overall growth over market performance. The underperformance in China was largely driven by continued market share loss among global OEMs, and to a lesser extent, by vehicle mix and our product transition at Geely. Encouragingly, we delivered sequential sales growth in the fourth quarter supported by new product launches, including a new cockpit domain controller with Geely. Overall, we delivered 2% growth over market globally despite EV headwinds in the US and the ongoing challenges in China. This performance reflects the strength and diversification our product and customer portfolio, which has enhanced our ability to navigate market volatility.

The strategic initiatives outlined earlier are expected to further strengthen the resilience of the business. Turning to page five. Our 2025 operational performance reflected strong execution and global reach, with new products launched on 86 vehicle models across 19 vehicle manufacturers. These launches were well distributed geographically underscoring balanced growth across all major regions. From a product perspective, approximately one third of the launches were for large displays and SmartCore programs, aligned with the industry's accelerating shift towards software defined vehicles. The launch mix also showed increasing momentum in hybrid vehicles, which performed particularly well in 2025 as well as in commercial vehicles and two wheelers.

Several key fourth quarter launches are highlighted on this page, In China, we launched a new digital cluster on the refreshed Toyota Corolla and Corolla Cross models. The Corolla has been a long standing success for Toyota in the Chinese market, and the updated versions offered with both ICE and hybrid powertrains introduce enhanced smart features designed to reinforce Toyota's position this highly competitive segment. We also launched a center information display on the Mazda CX-5 SUV a key element of Mazda's return to growth plan for 2026. This launch supports both ICE and hybrid variants of the wake in the China market.

In addition, we introduced a SmartCore system with Zeeker, further strengthening our position with Chinese OEMs adopting more advanced corporate architectures. In India, we introduced a fully integrated SmartCore based corporate system on Mahindra’s XUV 7XO featuring three twelve inch displays. The centralized compute system offers state of the art SDV capabilities including surround view, telematics, streaming media, OTA, ADAS visualization, besides advanced infotainment capabilities. Other fourth quarter launches included instrument clusters with Ford in North America, and Tata in India.

In summary, we delivered strong operational performance in 2025, launching a high number of new products, aligned with key industry growth drivers, including the shift to software defined vehicles, increasing adoption of large displays, and rising demand for hybrid vehicles that sets us up for continued growth. Turning to page six. We delivered a record $7,400,000,000 of new business wins in 2025, 20% higher than 2024. This performance is particularly impressive given the slower OEM port activity during the year, especially in Europe and the US, as automakers adjusted to shifting market dynamics around electrification, and increased competition from Chinese OEMs. Displays and SmartCore performed exceptionally well, reflecting the continued acceleration of the software defined vehicle trend across the industry.

Together, they accounted for approximately three quarters of our total wins. We also continued to build momentum in high performance compute system for the cockpit securing a second customer, Cherry, in China. We also secured significant wins in large format digital clusters to support the growth of ADAS and the increasing need to present safety critical information directly in the driver's line of sight. Turning now to the fourth quarter, we secured approximately $1,700,000,000 of new business wins and finishing the year on a strong note. A key highlight was a center information display program for a large full size ICE pickup in North America. Serving both commercial and retail customers.

This is a flagship high volume platform and underscores how OEMs continue to prioritize the cockpit as a critical area of differentiation even in pickups and trucks. We also won an integrated and infotainment system on a high volume global SUV and truck platform for a Japanese OEM, where we displaced an incumbent supplier. This win highlights our ability to deliver integrated cockpit system sets scale and compete effectively on both technology and cost, In China, we secured a driver display program for an entry level sedan with Toyota, and expanded our high performance compute system on the Lincoln co vehicle at Geely. Overall, the breadth of our cockpit product portfolio continues to create meaningful growth opportunities for the company.

The product and regional diversity of our new business wins positions us well to navigate industry challenges and drive continued growth. Turning to page seven. Let me close with a look at how we are thinking about 2026 and how it sets the path for our next stage of growth. For 2026, we expect sales to be in the range of 3.6 to five to $3,825,000,000. Starting on the left hand side of the slide, there are two specific headwinds we anticipate to impact 2026 both of which we expect will be largely behind us as we move into 2027. First, US EV production is expected to be lower following the reset in demand.

As a result, we are assuming that BMS volume in the Americas will decline by nearly 50% year over year. Second, Ford discontinued several vehicle models in 2025 where we had content, and there are no successful programs for those vehicles. In addition, we expect net pricing, foreign exchange, and other commercial items represent roughly a 2% headwind which is broadly in line with normal pricing dynamics. Jerome will walk through these items in more detail. Offsetting these pressures, the right hand side of the slide highlights the building blocks of our next stage of growth, which begin to take shape in 2026. In China, we expect sales to grow modestly, lower customer vehicle production.

We have two high performance compute SmartCore programs launching with domestic Chinese OEMs along with cockpit domain controller and display programs with German OEMs launching in the second half of the year. While we have been conservative in our estimates, there is potential upside if the upper segment of the vehicle market performs well as indicated by January market trends. Our strategic initiatives also begin to contribute in 2026. We have multiple program launches during the year, including several with Toyota, continued growth in India, and further expansion in two wheeler and commercial vehicles. These launches reflect the strategic work we discussed earlier, and help set the foundation for sustainable growth.

The final bar on the slide represents the net impact of program activity across the remainder of our customer portfolio. This includes new program launches and production ramps across a broader customer base such as the panoramic display and cluster with Audi, digital clusters on multiple Renault vehicles, and new displays with Nissan and Mercedes that more than offset normal program roll offs. It should be noted that it excludes the specific headwinds and the strategic growth drivers we have already discussed. Separately, the supply of memory chips is tight throughout the industry, and we are working closely with suppliers to mitigate the gaps and develop alternative drop in replacements.

While the situation is still evolving, we expect that we will be able to cover customer demand applying similar playbook as with prior semiconductor shortages. Overall, 2026 represents an important year. While sales are impacted by temporary headwinds, the second half of the year begins to reflect the progress we have made in executing our growth strategy. That positions us for a return to top line growth as we move into 2027 and 2028. With that, I will turn the call over to Jerome. Thank you, Sachin. Before getting into the details of the quarter and our outlook,

Jerome J. Rouquet: I want to briefly step back and look at our financial performance over the past few years as it provides important context for how we have managed the business through a dynamic environment. Over this period, we have grown sales by more than 800,000,000, or 28%, despite our customer production declining by 13%. We have more than doubled adjusted EBITDA, and extended margins by over 500 basis points. Importantly, this margin progression has been steady and consistent, reflecting disciplined execution across pricing, cost structure, and operational performance. We have also generated strong cash flows.

Adjusted free cash flow totaled 1,000,000,000 over this period, with an average conversion rate of approximately 42% driven by EBITDA growth and the sustained focus on working capital discipline and capital efficiency. While not shown on this slide, our return on invested capital remains in the high teens, well above our cost of capital and above our peer group, reflecting the quality of returns we are generating from our investment investments in the business. Taken together, these results demonstrate our ability to expand margins and generate cash even as volumes, mix, and regional dynamics have shifted. Turning to page 10.

Sales for the fourth quarter were $948,000,000 coming in above our expectations, primarily driven by customer recoveries related to program shortfalls. In the quarter, sales benefited by 30,000,000 related to a customer claim on an EV program in the US. Of which a portion was used to settle supplier obligations. From a product perspective, displays continue to be the main growth driver year over year, while battery management systems were down following the expiration of the EV tax credit in the US. We also experienced several discrete headwinds in the quarter, including the Novelis fire impacting Ford and the cyber attack at GLR, both of which were known headwinds going into the quarter.

There was no impact on the volumes, related to the potential Nexperia supply risk we referenced on the last call. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was 110,000,000 representing a margin of 11.6% and came in slightly above the midpoint of our guidance. One time items in the quarter represented a modest headwind as elevated warranty expense and some costs associated with resourcing away from the Nexperia more than offset the EBITDA benefit from the customer claim I mentioned previously. When excluding these onetime items, adjusted EBITDA margins approximately 12.5% on a normalized basis, reflecting continued commercial discipline and underlying cost performance.

Adjusted free cash flow was strong, coming in at 77,000,000 supported by robust EBITDA levels and continued discipline in working capital management and capital efficiency. During the quarter, we returned capital to shareholders through $50,000,000 of share repurchases and 7,000,000 through our quarterly dividend, which we initiated in the third quarter. Our net cash position was 472,000,000 at the end of the quarter. Turning to Page 11. For the full year, sales were $3,768,000,000 down $98,000,000 or 3% year over year. Customer production was down 1% for the year, while currency was neutral. Pricing was a headwind of 4%. This includes our normal annual price reductions of 2% which are consistent with historical levels as well as lower customer recoveries.

The reduction in recoveries reflects the unwind of prior year semiconductor inflation.

Sachin S. Lawande: Revenue, offsetting headwinds from lower BMS volumes, In 2025, we delivered another record year for both our lower sales in China, and normal program roll offs. through disciplined cost execution. adjusted EBITDA dollars and margins. Pricing and lower customer recoveries were offset We delivered end to end product cost improvements including supplier cost reductions and vertical integration initiatives and drove productivity gains across engineering and SG&A. Throughout the year, we actively managed our cost structure in line with market conditions, enabling us to improve margins while continuing to invest in strategic growth initiatives. For the full year, the net impact from favorable one timers including elevated one time commercial recoveries was just under 30,000,000.

Excluding these items, normalized adjusted EBITDA margins are in the mid 12% range for the full year. Before moving on to cash flow, I want to highlight our voluntary decision to change the methodology used to calculate our valuation allowance on US deferred tax assets. While there are two methodologies available that are acceptable under US GAAP, the methodology we will be using going forward enhances transparency and reduces complexity while also aligning with industry norms. We have reflected this accounting change in our US GAAP tax expense for the past three years in the 10-K. This change impacts the presentation of US GAAP taxes but does not affect cash taxes or underlying economics of the business.

Additional details are included in the 10-Ks. Turning to Page 12. In 2025, we generated $292,000,000 of adjusted free cash flow reflecting continued strength in the underlying earnings profile of the business. Trade working capital was a source of cash for the year, driven by lower sales and inventory reductions. Cash taxes increased year over year due to increased profitability, the timing of tax payments and some level of discrete items. Interest was a net positive as income generated on our cash balances more than offset interest payments on debt. Other changes primarily reflect ongoing pension contributions and timing of cash flows. Capital expenditures were $133,000,000 for the year, or 3.5% of sales, illustrating the capital discipline of the company.

This included continued investments in vertical integration as well as the purchase of land in India in the fourth quarter to support growth in this market. Taken together, our conversion ratio from EBITDA to adjusted free cash flow was nearly 60%. In total, we deployed approximately 275,000,000 of capital. This included both organic and inorganic investments, the return of approximately $72,000,000 of cash to shareholders through share repurchases and the initiation of a quarterly dividend. During the fourth quarter, we completed 100,000,000 pension derisking by transferring pension related assets and liabilities to an insurance company. This transaction had a noncash impact to net income of negative 7,000,000.

Also in the fourth quarter, S&P upgraded Visteon to BA1, reflecting expanded margins strong free cash flow generation, a conservative financial policy, and sustainable demand for advanced cockpit technologies. Turning to page 13. Turning to our 2026 outlook. Starting with sales, we expect revenue in the range of $3,625,000,000 to 3,825,000,000.000 As Sachin discussed, we begin to see the benefits of our strategic growth initiatives in 2026 with more meaningful acceleration into 2027 and beyond laying the foundation for sustainable annual top line growth beginning in 2027. At the same time, 2026 includes several discrete headwinds, including lower BMS sales and the discontinuations of certain programs at Ford, with both items largely behind us as we go into 2027.

Our outlook is primarily based on the January S&P forecast. Customer weighted production is expected to be down in the low single digits. Against this backdrop, we expect Visteon growth of a market to be in the low single digits, This is below our long term expectations due to the discrete headwinds in 2026 that positions us for stronger growth going forward as those headwinds roll off and our strategic initiatives accelerate. Before moving to EBITDA, let me provide some additional perspective on the commercial dynamics embedded in our outlook. Recognizing that this remains a dynamic area.

There are several items that reduce sales year over year including normal annual pricing to customers, lower customer recoveries related to semiconductor and supply chain disruptions from prior years, as well as the non recurrence of certain commercial recoveries recognized in 2025. Partially offsetting these declines, we expect recoveries related to more recent semiconductor dynamics, including memory related costs. We also anticipate a modest tailwind from currency. On a net basis, we expect these various items to represent approximately a 2% headwind to sales year over year. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between 455 to 495,000,000. At the midpoint of guidance, margins are 12.8%.

As we have highlighted previously, our 2025 results included a net benefit of just under 30,000,000 above our normal run rate. Of that amount, we expect about only 10,000,000 to repeat in 2026, resulting in a 20,000,000 year over year headwind. Excluding this factor, we expect adjusted EBITDA dollars to be roughly flat year over year despite lower sales reflecting the underlying strength of the business and our continued operational focus. Compared to normalized margins of 12.5% in 2025, our guidance incorporates a 30 basis point improvement. Included in our guidance are ongoing benefits from cost discipline, emerging savings from vertical integration, and product costing initiatives.

These are offset by increased investments in the business to support product development, including in AI and vertical integration. This outlook also incorporates an increase in memory cost with a year over year cost increase, representing approximately 2% of sales. We are in active discussions with our customers to pass along these costs and we have incorporated in our guidance a modest amount of potential timing mismatch between cost incurred and customer recoveries. These discussions are ongoing, and given their sensitive nature, we will not be providing additional details at this time. Turning to cash flow, we expect adjusted free cash flow of approximately $170,000,000 to $210,000,000 representing a conversion rate of approximately 40% at the midpoint.

We currently anticipate working capital will be a slight use of cash as we increase inventory levels. Capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $150,000,000 or about 4% of sales, which includes the build out of a second manufacturing facility in India, as well as support of upcoming program launches, and continued investments in vertical integration. Overall, our 26 guidance reflects a business executing with discipline, maintaining margin expansion on a normalized basis, generating strong cash flow, and continuing to invest in the growth initiatives that support the next phase of our top line growth. As usual, we are not providing formal quarterly guidance, but I did want to share some directional insight before moving on.

We expect first quarter sales to be the lowest of the year reflecting the industry production profile for 2026. Continued depressed BMS volumes and launches that are weighted towards the back half of the year. From a profitability standpoint, Q1 EBITDA will be negatively impacted by lower volumes as well as higher memory cost. Recognizing that not all customer recoveries agreements will be finalized by the end of the first quarter. Turning to page 14. In 2026, we expect to have more than half $1,000,000,000 of cash available to deploy. This amount represents a combination of cash on hand and cash that we expect to generate during the year.

We will continue to be guided by the same disciplined capital allocation framework, prioritizing investment in the business while returning excess capital to shareholders. Starting with investments in the business, this remains our top priority. As discussed earlier, we expect to allocate approximately 150,000,000 to capital expenditures in 2026 positioning the business for future growth and supporting vertical integration initiatives. In addition to CapEx, we continue to see meaningful opportunities for M&A Our focus remains on expanding capabilities through engineering services, while also selectively evaluating opportunities to enhance our technology portfolio. While the ultimate level of investment will depend on how the transactions progress during the year, M&A deployment could be up to two times our annual CapEx investment levels.

As always, we will remain disciplined and prioritize strategic fit and financial returns. Even after funding these growth investments, we expect to maintain significant capacity to return capital to shareholders. First, we are increasing our quarterly dividend to $0.375 per share, representing an increase of 36%. This reflects our confidence in the durability of our cash flow and equates to approximately 40,000,000 on an annual basis. In addition, we intend to remain active in share repurchases. At a minimum, we will offset dilution with the intent to be more opportunistic depending on market conditions and the pace of M&A activity.

At the end of 2025, we had 75,000,000 remaining under our existing authorization, and we expect to revisit this level as the year progresses. To round out the cash flow picture, we have a modest amortization requirement on our debt facility, representing 18,000,000 of cash outflow in 2026. Taken together, our capital allocation plan for 2026 reflects a balanced and flexible approach continuing to invest in growth, returning capital to shareholders, and maintaining balance sheet strength as the business continues to transition and scale. Turning to page 15. Before we conclude, want to highlight our upcoming investor day, which will be held on June 25 in New York City.

We look forward to sharing more detail on our long term outlook including how the strategic initiatives we have discussed today translate into growth and value creation over the coming years. We hope many of you will be able to join us. Thank you for your time today, I would like now to open the call for your questions.

Operator: At this time, if you would like to ask an audio question, please press star then the number one on your telephone keypad. Again, that is star and the number one. Your first question is from the line of Luke L. Junk with Baird. Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Maybe

Sachin S. Lawande: just to start with, Sachin, hoping we could just

Jerome J. Rouquet: dig into the DRAM exposure a little bit more relative to the product portfolio, maybe just to scale that 2% impact to guidance both across portfolio and then kind of what that represents from a cost standpoint? And then maybe qualitatively, if you could also just speak to supply the supplier side of this and your ability to get in front of this, and I am just curious from a timing standpoint, you know, were you working on this relative relatively earlier versus when this became more known in financial markets?

Sachin S. Lawande: Sure. Sure. So in terms of

Sachin S. Lawande: the use of memory, look, as you can imagine, we use memory chips in virtually all of our products. And we use different types of memories. You know, they have DRAM for sure, but different types of DRAMs, but also flash memory. Now the memory supply and that landscape looks different than the logic chips that we have had issues with in the past. As you probably know, almost 90 plus percent of the market is made up of essentially three suppliers, including Samsung, Kynix, and Micron. And we work with all of them, and we have a long standing relationship with these suppliers and a very strategic one.

We started to work with them towards the end of last year As you might know, the memory industry typically plans for a about a 10% growth in demand each year. But towards the second half, I would say more in the third quarter of last year, the demand signals from the rest of the industry, not automotive, but consumer electronics, data centers, etcetera, indicated that the demand in 2026 was going to be closer to about 50% and not the traditional 10% or so, thereabouts that industry was accustomed to. So the main fallout of all of that is that the supply is gonna be tight everybody in all industries. Right? And automotive will also have the same situation.

So what we are doing in response to that and we started on this journey last year itself and I believe earlier than many the industry, we started to work with our suppliers to secure the capacity for the full year. So that is something that, we have already made a lot of progress with. And we should be I would say, in a better position than most to be able to get those capacity reservations secured. Now even with that, where we see gaps, we are developing alternate pin to pin compatible drop in replacements. Similar to what we did with the logic chip shortages.

And also evaluating new suppliers There are some new suppliers not many, but some that are emerging mostly in China. And we started engaging with them late last year and have already secured some supply from these emerging suppliers. So net, if I look at our full year demand for this year, should largely be able to cover customer demand There may be some timing impacts that we have to manage. Even that, I think as we work with our suppliers, we should be able to largely mitigate.

Now on the cost side, as Jerome mentioned, we have a increase in cost in this memory chips on account of our, you know, historical relationship with the suppliers and the early engagement that we have, I believe we will be in a in a good position to have a good cost despite the increase, which we will expect to recover from our customers similar to, you know, the last semiconductor prices. So now to answer your other question about specifically how much is it, we would rather not provide any breakdown of our materials mainly for competitive reasons. The increase that as Jerome mentioned represents about two of our sales probably as much as we can share for now.

Luke L. Junk: Got it. I really appreciate color there, Sachin. For my follow-up, just want to dig in to the kind of the weighting of revenue this year. So very much appreciate the comment about first quarter sales and the impacts there. Just want to think about weighting the first half versus the second half this year as well, given the impacts from Ford and BMS are seem pretty immediate stepping into the year versus your launch cadence picking up into the back half?

And then maybe if we could just walk at a high level into 2027 as well as some of these transient have not seemed like they should drop out and that launch cadence maybe should more fully read through. Thank you.

Jerome J. Rouquet: Hey. Good morning, Luke. I will I will start, and then I will hand over to Sachin for '27. So, for '26, we have a as we had anticipated, we have a second half, which is going to be slightly better. Than the first half of the year, and that is really, due to the, launches that we have, that are, more back loaded. Towards the end of the year. And we have got that in China, We have got that with our key strategic initiatives. Including Toyota, that will really ramp up in Q3 and in some cases for Toyota in Q4. So overall, we have got about a 3% improvement in the second half versus the first half.

When IHS was, I think, close to 2%. So we are doing slightly better than the market in the in the second half versus the first half. Related to Q1, we do think that Q1 will be, the lowest, quarter of the year.

Jerome J. Rouquet: On

Jerome J. Rouquet: the back of two things. The first one is the fact that IHS as well is guiding towards a decline year over year of about three to 4%. So we will have this reflected, in our sales. And we do see as well at this point pretty low level of BMS sales as we are going into, into the first quarter. So, that will obviously impact our Q1 sales, which will be, as I said, the lowest of the year.

Sachin S. Lawande: Thanks. Thanks, Jerome. Before I get into the 2027 topic, I would like to just briefly touch upon our performance in 2025 and our two for '26. Because I think the dynamics there have a significant bearing on how we think about 2027. and the other was BMS. Combined, So if you think about 2025, we have we had two major headwinds. One was China, represented about seven percentage points of headwinds And we were able to offset that through new product launches, mainly in North America and Europe, twenty five. those And if you were to do exclude headwinds and the one timers, that represents about seven percentage points of growth over market.

Now when you look at 2026, especially in the walk that we have provided for our sales, we have BMS again as a headwind. Perhaps we might be a little more conservative than the for sure, S&P four's outlook. But nonetheless, we have BMS, and we have the discontinued vehicles at four. That we mentioned earlier. But China is no longer headwind. Now offsetting these are all two new product launches mainly in Europe and in Asia, particularly in China, However, most of the high value launches are in the 2026 to about five percentage points.

Now as we go into 2027, although we will not provide specific financial targets on this call here today, By the way, we will do that in much fulsome treatment in our investor day in June. What I can say is that we expect a top line sales growth since the headwinds both China and BMS, would largely be behind us. Well as this discontinued vehicles topic.

And the growth that we will have from the new product launches, especially high performance compute systems in China, as well as displays and other products and the products we are making in the adjacent markets and our strategic initiatives should bring us back to our mid to high single digit growth over market in 2027 and drive top line growth. So I hope that gives a much sort of broader context on current performance as well as what we expect in 2027.

Luke L. Junk: Yep. Thank you very much. I will leave it there.

Operator: Thank you. Your next question is from the line of Shreyas Patil with Wolfe Capital.

Shreyas Patil: Thanks a lot for taking my question. Maybe just a quick clarification on your

Shreyas Patil: commentary around memory. So just is your memory exposure equivalent to 2% of revenues? Or are you expecting an increase in memory costs? That is equal to 2%? Of sales. Yeah. What

Sachin S. Lawande: what we have mentioned, the 2% is specifically regarding the increase. In the cost that we anticipate this year.

Shreyas Patil: Okay. Thank you. And then maybe, you know, looking at the bridge the revenue bridge that you provided earlier, you are pointing to your traditional customers driving about two points of top line

Shreyas Patil: line

Shreyas Patil: line growth. That is about $75,000,000 Just curious what you are seeing in terms of launch activity broadly this year amongst those OEMs from some of the other suppliers that have reported, it does seem like '26 is a somewhat lighter year. For launch activity, particularly in North America and Europe. Is that similar to what you are seeing? And would that be a contributing positive if you are thinking about 2027?

Sachin S. Lawande: Yeah. So, Shreyas, I think we are seeing a little bit of a different perspective than some of our other peers perhaps. We have a significant amount of launch activity in Europe related to displays As you might remember, we have fun a high level of displaced business A lot of it has come from Europe, in the past couple of years. And that is turning into revenue especially in the 20 launches in China. And so what has happened in China is after sort of a reset with many of our international OEMs, not just the domestic OEMs. They have been launching new vehicles to compete in that you know, highly competitive market.

And this seems to be the year, again, second half, this seems to be the year that they are introducing new vehicles And I think the timing also might actually work out very well if you have seen even the early numbers from January in China, the market seems to be tilting in favor of more higher priced vehicles with all of the changes with respect to policies and pricing, etcetera, that have happened in that market. And we think, you know, that might actually help our mobile customers, but also our domestic customers like Geely. They have some high performance compute launches that we discussed earlier. With domestic OEMs, and they go into the more premium flagship vehicle models.

So I we do see a very healthy launch activity this year.

Shreyas Patil: And

Sachin S. Lawande: me, that is really signals again this STV trend now. Complemented by this AI trend. Starting to really drive some momentum.

Shreyas Patil: Okay. Great. And maybe just one last one on the M&A pipeline you mentioned, I think it is about $300,000,000 or so. Maybe you could just unpack the how the what is kind of in that in that pipeline are the size of the companies that you are looking at And maybe the you know, how should we think about the timeline for when you could you could execute on those deals? Thank you.

Jerome J. Rouquet: Yeah. Let me start, and I will hand over to Sachin as well. So we have not really given a number. The chart may indicate that it could be as much as twice the amount of CapEx we have for '26. But we will see how it goes. We are quite ambitious in 2026 given the pipeline that we have And the criterias that we have got in mind for M&A remain the same as the ones that we have talked about in the past.

The first one is that we want to have M&A that are bolt on by design, and that by that, we mean we want to look at fairly small acquisitions so that we can tuck them in our existing business pretty quickly. The second criteria is that we want to have technology slash capability accretive. To what we are doing today, augmenting essentially the platform that we have from a software standpoint. And that includes as well engineering services.

And as you know, we have already done two acquisitions and we are, considering as well further And then the third criteria that we have always considered as well is the fact that we want to have as much as possible these businesses being margin accretive from day one. So that we do not get a return that is going to be, in five or even ten years. So kind of the three criterias that we have selected, in the past and that we are still continuing to apply as we look at, this pipeline of acquisition. 2026. And maybe just to add to what Jerome has said, you know, without

Sachin S. Lawande: necessarily getting into any specifics about sizes of the companies, etcetera, that we are looking at. One thing to keep in mind, Shreyas, is if you look at our journey, of integrating more and more of the ECUs, we have gone from integrating the cluster and the IBI into CDC, not the HPC integrates even more ECUs including body control, gateways, plus additional rear seat entertainment, passenger side, entertainment as well. And now with the regulations in ADAS, in particular, in Europe, is also expected to follow-up in China. We see that ADAS is gonna be more of a table stakes almost features and something that we can look forward to in integration in a one of our future products.

So we continue to look for opportunities where we can bring in those technology elements in house that can allow us to take cost out and integrate more of the content in our systems. So that should give you some sense of the kind of the companies we are looking at, none of which are a big transactions. As Jerome mentioned, we prefer to focus on technology capabilities so that we can then integrate it in a better manner. With in our systems.

Shreyas Patil: Okay. Thanks.

Operator: Your next question is from the line Lupitae Macaulay with TD Cowen.

Lupitae Macaulay: Great. Thanks. Good morning, everyone.

Lupitae Macaulay: A first question, just going back to Slide seven and the revenue bridge. On the 2% headwinds from discontinued vehicles, I am curious whether you have content in some of the competing vehicles to the vehicles that are being discontinued and whether it is an assumption for some pickup of revenue there? Or are you kind of more assuming that, that headwind does not get recovered or recouped by other competing vehicles might have content on. Yeah. I think yes. The answer is yes. We do we have

Sachin S. Lawande: content in that sort of a very broad cross section of vehicles at that OEM. But at least as yet, we are not necessarily seeing the benefit Now that does not mean it may not happen. It could. Still early in the year. And we do not have full visibility into the OEM's plans. Given the fairly significant you know, volume of vehicles that those represented, we do expect that they would try to fill that hole with some other vehicles, which in if that were to happen, then we would, I guess, benefit from it.

Operator: So

Sachin S. Lawande: we have we are not seeing that as yet, we have not included that in our outlook. If it does happen, then it might provide some tailwind.

Jerome J. Rouquet: And I would add, Sachin, that we have used broadly IHS, in fact, for

Jerome J. Rouquet: this discontinued vehicle, but as well just for overall Ford volume going into '26.

Lupitae Macaulay: That is very, very helpful. And just as a second question,

Lupitae Macaulay: strong bookings in 2025, that is great to see. Sachin, I was hoping

Lupitae Macaulay: you had a target to share for bookings in 2026. And then if you kind of look at the last few years average booking, it does seem to support maybe a mid to high single digit revenue growth algorithm for the company in the medium term. I think I heard you say, Sachin, to an earlier question that you may even

Jerome J. Rouquet: get to that level as early as next year. Just hoping you kind of talk a little bit about

Lupitae Macaulay: the implications of bookings for the company's growth in the medium term.

Sachin S. Lawande: Yeah. Very good question. And if you think about, you know, the 2025 performance in particular, the things I would like to highlight. One are displays, which we did really well across the board, if you look at our displacements, they have were spread over Europe, North America, and also Asia. And those programs typically have a shorter lead time in terms of development and launch. Than the cochlear electronics programs. Those fundamentally with more software it takes longer to launch those systems. So that is one factor. The other thing is that about 15% of our wins were on you know, two wheelers and commercial vehicles. And two wheelers in particular also have fairly short time to market.

So that is really the reason where why we feel that the infection of, you know, these wins turning into revenue and contributing to our growth of our market. Will be fairly earlier than traditional, you know, and or historical sort of averages in terms of time. And in terms of just outlook, for this year, in particular, for new business wins, the pipeline of new opportunities is pretty robust. I am I am very happy to see that given this environment where a lot of the customers that we have, especially outside of China, still in some sort of form or the other in terms of trying to get their portfolio adjusted. We still see a very robust pipeline.

Again, thereby displaced, but also more for the domain controllers. And a emerge opportunity, which is very exciting. Is this AI dedicated ECUs for AI to bring AI into cockpits without necessarily re architecting the whole vehicle. This is starting in China. And we are very excited and optimistic about it. And has the potential to come across, you know, into other regions fairly quickly.

Lupitae Macaulay: That is very helpful. Thank you.

Operator: Your next question is from the line of Tom Narayan with RBC Capital Markets.

Tanaseo: Hi. This is Tanaseo on for Tom. Thanks taking the question. So on the last call, I think you guys mentioned a roughly 20% volume reduction for BMS in 2026. And it looks like that number has since jumped up to 50% So it sounds like you guys are still anticipating BMS to show some recovery in 2027. But is there anything you can give us on your longer term planning around BMS? And where you think it could get up to maybe as a percentage of revenue?

Sachin S. Lawande: Absolutely. So let me give you this the way we think about BMS. So especially in the US, first of all, I would start by saying that it is very difficult to forecast what EVs will do this year in particular first full year without all the incentives, But we can look at Q4 for as one data point, not necessarily sufficient, but at least that is what we have in front of us. So even with the pull ahead that occurred, due to the expiry of the incentive, we saw a

Sachin S. Lawande: market

Sachin S. Lawande: Penetration of about just over 5% of EVs in the US in Q4. Now as we think about 2026, we do believe it will start very soft in the sense that Q1 is probably going to be the low point of EV sales in the US for continuing from the effects of the pull ahead in last year. And then Q2 onwards slowly recover. Now the question is to what level? Now what we have assumed in our outlook is very conservative number. We have assumed a roughly 3% penetration of EVs with our customers. I mentioned Q4 was over 5%. For the full year, it was over seven So it feels like our 3% is fairly conservative.

S&P has a 30% lower 2026 than 2025. And if you look at you know, our numbers, it is closer to 50% drop year over year. So there could be some upside if we are found to be too conservative here, but given everything, we felt it would be prudent to be a little bit more on the conservative side.

Now if you about 2027 and going forward, the improvements that we see in the cost of EVs and continuing focus on those wire customers, in particular GM, we believe that the market should recover modestly from the lows of 2026 We will we will we will wait for a little longer to exactly what that could look like, but we believe it could be a very modest improvement and a steady growth from there.

Tanaseo: Okay. Gotcha. Thank you. I guess on a on a slightly higher level, it looks like you guys have pretty strong growth over market in Europe in 2025. I was wondering if you could give us a sense of whether you see any opportunities to capture additional business wins, especially from the Chinese domestic export into Europe?

Sachin S. Lawande: Yes. And we do see a lot of positives from the Chinese OEMs activity in Europe not just with them directly, but also with European OEMs who are responding to the competitive threat by essentially uplifting the capabilities in the cockpits. Now we also have been able to win business in Europe, the Chinese OEMs, and we expect to able to do more of that as we go forward. So to us, you know, Europe represents a interesting data point where the growth of the Chinese OEMs sales actually helps the business in terms of driving more content in the cockpit.

So we expect to see the dynamic not just limited to Europe, but in other regions there you see higher activity of the China OEMs.

Shreyas Patil: And to your point, we do anticipate Europe to also

Sachin S. Lawande: contribute more in terms of new business opportunities this year as well.

Tanaseo: Okay. Great. Thank you.

Operator: Your next question is from Joe Spak with UBS. Thanks.

Joe Spak: I guess I wanted to go back to better understand some of the

Joe Spak: memory commentary. And I know you are going to be you are you are talking about being limited here in what you are going to say. But in the overall bridge, you are talking about recoveries, pricing, FX being a 2% year over year headwind. Now you have the old recoveries, right, that is that is you know, probably lower year over year as you sort of indicated from the original semiconductor challenges, Price is sort of minus two. FX looks like it is probably a positive. So I guess to get to that overall minus two, and I and if I take in the context your you know, the increase is about 2% of sales.

It looks like you are assuming very little in terms of actual recoveries on memory. Is that is that about right? And maybe just a comment on you know, sourcing here because it sounds like you are doing a lot of work I know a lot of the automakers are doing work as well, and there is some directed by. So you know, who is really responsible for what? Yeah. Let me take the first question.

Jerome J. Rouquet: Joe, good morning. So the buckets that you described are the right ones. We have got in this 2% annual pricing We have got, what I would call the legacy or the reduction in recoveries related to the prior chip shortage that are coming down. And then we have got on a positive side, recoveries for the new memory tensions that are going on as well as some modest, effects.

Maybe just to be very clear on the memory, we are we have baked in our assumptions that we will be recovering the majority of these costs And, when I said the majority is that we are fully intending to recover everything, but there will be some level of timing that we have accounted for between the cost incurred and the customer recoveries. And we will, as I mentioned, we will see that Q1 and that is probably going to be as well a shearing effect all the way to till the end of the year on that topic. But these are the four full buckets, and we are absolutely intending to recover the memory cost increases through our customer

Sachin S. Lawande: And to your other question, Joe, you know, the OEMs activities are more related to understanding the situation and engaging with the suppliers. I do not believe that they have direct sourcing, at least not with us. So in our case, we do virtually all of the sourcing of memories directly ourselves.

Joe Spak: Okay.

Joe Spak: But I guess on if the guidance also sort of assumes that you know, you are re recovering it all just with some timing mismatches. Then it mean, it is also you know, rough numbers. Is that fair to sort of say that is like a 20 to 30 basis point hit to your margins this year?

Jerome J. Rouquet: We have not given any specific. It is embedded in this 2%, so I would take that 2% as kind of the essential piece of the work As I said, in fact, if you decompose maybe these buckets, if you think about it, annual pricing as well as say, legacy semiconductor recoveries will be fully offset by the efficiencies that we are generating in the business. Will be offsetting the memory cost increases to the majority will have some level of leakage, but nothing major. And then you have in that bucket as well, as I said, the effects. Which is a pretty small number.

Overall, when we look at our business, and that is pretty valid in fact for the last two years, and it will be still valid as well for twenty six. The dilution of, recoveries has an impact of about 0.5 percentage points on the on recoveries. So on EBITDA. Sorry. So that is kind of the dilution that you see, over the years. Coming from that buck. Good. Okay. Maybe just one quick one just to follow-up on the

Joe Spak: the capital deployment and the M&A. And I know those are gradiated bars, you said the M&A could be you know, twice the CapEx or $300,000,000 or if I look at M&A to buyback, that is like a two to one ratio And if you add up, you know, CapEx, the dividend, the debt, like, it looks like there is about you know, 300,000,000 total left there. So I guess I am just I am just wondering, like, if

Operator: if

Joe Spak: and I know there is ranges here, but if the M&A outlay goes up to that 300,000,000, does that mean there is little left for buyback?

Jerome J. Rouquet: Yeah. These the slide shows, in fact, that buyback would be in the $100 plus million. Right. Our priority is going to be really focusing on, obviously, investing in the in the business with the CapEx. As well as focusing on these acquisitions. Obviously, the excess is going to go to dividend and as well share buybacks, but we do want to remain opportunistic in terms of the buyback. So that is really the key point as well. And we will, we will update you as we go, throughout the year.

Operator: Okay.

Joe Spak: Thank you.

Shreyas Patil: Thank you.

Jerome J. Rouquet: Thank you. This concludes our earnings call for the fourth quarter.

Lupitae Macaulay: And full year of 2025.

Jerome J. Rouquet: Thank you for participating in today's call and your ongoing interest in Visteon.

Lupitae Macaulay: Thank you.

Operator: This concludes Visteon Corporation’s fourth quarter 2025 result earnings call. You may now disconnect.

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