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World's largest maker of automotive safety systems—airbags and seatbelts—supplying nearly all major automakers globally.
World's largest maker of automotive safety systems—airbags and seatbelts—supplying nearly all major automakers globally.
Wins supply contracts for specific car models years before production, then ships parts as those cars are built, so revenue follows global vehicle output. Spun off its electronics and radar business as Veoneer in 2018 to focus on passive safety, the airbags and seatbelts that act in a crash.
Moat: narrow (scale, customer qualification, IP / patents). Global scale and decades of crash-safety engineering IP make it the default safety-system supplier.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden · Founded: 1997 · Employees: 64,300
Size Autoliv (ALV) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Auto Parts: OEM) with a market value of $8.89B, the 837th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $123.47 on 6 Nov 2026.
Performance Over six months the shares gained 1.5%, against -10.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 21 in its peer set.
Growth Revenue grew 4.3% over the last twelve months (peer median +6.2%); the operating margin is 9.9% (peer median 7.7%).
Valuation It trades at 11.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 22.2× (5th cheapest of 21).
Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 3% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +8%, so the hurdle is -5 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
Capital Return on invested capital runs 9.3 points above its cost of capital (10.5% WACC).
Short interest Short interest is 5.9% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).
Next results Next results expected around 29 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).
| TTM | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $11.1B | $10.8B | $10.4B | $10.5B | $8.84B |
| Revenue growth | — | +4% | -1% | +18% | — |
| Gross profit | $2.10B | $2.03B | $1.89B | $1.78B | $1.36B |
| EBITDA | $1.53B | $1.50B | $1.39B | $1.27B | $929M |
| Net income | $623M | $735M | $647M | $488M | $423M |
| Free cash flow | $729M | $716M | $479M | $409M | $127M |
| Capital expenditure | $413M | $441M | $580M | $573M | $585M |
| Total debt | $2.09B | $2.32B | $2.07B | $2.04B | $1.92B |
The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.
| Company | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autoliv ALV | $8.89B | +2% | +4% | 10% | 11.0× | 2.6% |
| Continental CON.DE | $15.8B | +2% | -35% | n/a | 12.1× | -0.2% |
| Mobis 012330.KS | $22.3B | -18% | +4% | 6% | 8.3× | -1.0% |
| Toyoda Gosei 7282.T | $3.81B | +26% | +13% | 7% | 9.8× | 0.5% |
| Tokai Rika 6995.T | $1.57B | 0% | +5% | 5% | 9.9× | -4.6% |
Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.
| Measure | ALV | Peer median | Rank in peer set |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-month return | +11.2% | +1.3% | 5th highest of 21 |
| 6-month return | +1.5% | -10.9% | 7th highest of 21 |
| Distance from 52-week high | -6.6% | -29.3% | 4th highest of 21 |
| Revenue growth (TTM) | +4.3% | +6.2% | 9th lowest of 21 |
| Operating margin | 9.9% | 7.7% | 9th highest of 21 |
| Forward P/E | 11.0× | 22.2× | 5th cheapest of 21 |
| Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) | 2.6% | 9.6% | 5th least demanding of 16 |
| Growth delivered (Del g) | +7.7% | +7.7% | 8th highest of 16 |
| Hurdle (Req g minus delivered) | -5.2 pp | -2.6 pp | 6th least demanding of 16 |
| ROIC minus cost of capital | +9.3 pp | +1.6 pp | 2nd highest of 21 |
| EV / EBITDA | 7.0× | 10.4× | 4th cheapest of 13 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.2× | 1.1× | 6th most indebted of 13 |
| Company | Market | Market cap | 6M return | Revenue growth | Op. margin | Forward P/E | Req g | Delivered g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autoliv ALV | United States | $8.89B | +2% | +4% | 10% | 11.0× | 2.6% | +7.7% |
| Niterra 5334.T | Japan | $9.01B | +5% | +16% | 19% | 9.9× | 4.0% | +11.3% |
| HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA HLE.DE | Germany | $8.26B | -7% | -1% | 5% | 34.7× | 2.4% | +6.1% |
| Allison Transmission ALSN | United States | $9.65B | -6% | +71% | 20% | 11.0× | 2.6% | +7.7% |
| UNO Minda UNOMINDA.NS | India | $8.11B | +16% | +19% | 8% | 53.6× | 46.9% | +25.0% |
| Donaldson DCI | United States | $9.77B | -2% | +5% | 16% | 19.5× | 8.3% | +6.4% |
| Aisin 7259.T | Japan | $9.78B | -14% | +6% | 4% | 10.0× | -0.3% | +7.7% |
| Huayu Automotive Systems 600741.SS | China | $7.87B | -11% | +1% | 3% | 7.9× | -15.5% | +6.6% |
| Trelleborg TREL-B.ST | Sweden | $10.1B | +19% | +2% | 19% | 22.9× | 9.6% | +2.6% |
| Huizhou Desay SV Automotive 002920.SZ | China | $7.12B | -23% | +12% | 7% | 17.5× | n/a | n/a |
| Ningbo Tuopu 601689.SS | China | $11.7B | -26% | +11% | 9% | 29.9× | 15.3% | +35.4% |
| Cummins India CUMMINSIND.NS | India | $11.9B | -25% | +15% | 19% | 43.5× | 39.5% | +22.7% |
| Anhui Jianghuai Automobile 600418.SS | China | $6.48B | -60% | +23% | -2% | 44.4× | n/a | n/a |
| Zhejiang Sling Intelligent Drive 301550.SZ | China | $6.34B | +14% | +7% | 19% | 230.9× | n/a | n/a |
| Wanxiang Qianchao 000559.SZ | China | $6.24B | -22% | -4% | 8% | 36.7× | 21.2% | +4.2% |
| Kuang-Chi Technologies 002625.SZ | China | $6.05B | -52% | -7% | 20% | 21.6× | n/a | n/a |
| Sona BLW Precision Forgings SONACOMS.NS | India | $5.94B | +56% | +42% | 17% | 63.7× | 48.2% | +23.6% |
| Schaeffler SHA0.DE | Germany | $5.83B | -45% | -1% | 2% | 18.4× | 10.7% | +13.3% |
| Brembo BRE.MI | Italy | $5.62B | -11% | -3% | 7% | 13.7× | 17.3% | +10.9% |
| Lear LEA | United States | $5.31B | -21% | +4% | 4% | 6.9× | -1.3% | +6.4% |
| Jiangsu Xinquan Automotive Trim 603179.SS | China | $5.07B | +5% | +12% | 6% | 33.5× | n/a | n/a |