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Adient PLC (NYSE:ADNT) lost one bull and gained another Wednesday as analysts digested the auto supplier's guidance cuts and prospects for recovery.
The Rating
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Longbow Research analysts Anthony Deem and Brian Bollenbacher upgraded Adient from Neutral to Buy and set a $68 price target.
The Thesis
As far as Longbow is concerned, Adient's 2020 guidance reduction derisks the margin outlook and limits downside ahead of “material improvement in 2019 earnings” driven by a turnaround in the firm’s specialty sales and marketing segment.
The analysts forecast $200 million in SS&M’s 2020 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization compared to a $116-million loss in the first half of this year.
“Catalysts are cost-driven and include eliminating premium freight, commodity cost recovery, supply availability and manufacturing efficiencies on a greater launch cadence,” Deem and Bollenbacher said in a Wednesday note. “Margin expansion and free cash flow improvements from de-emphasized lower margin/highly capital intensive SS&M are positives.”
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At the same time, Adient intends to reduce a two-year SS&M backlog by about $200 million and realize “solid” opportunities in seating.
“ADNT is confident the historical win rate of 90 percent on [the] incumbent seating business is intact and the cadence of programs coming up for renewal is consistent too,” the analysts said.
By Longbow’s assessment, Adient should reverse its two-year low-single digit declines and instead post organic growth beyond 2019 driven by the industry’s shift toward larger vehicles, 2-percent compound annual growth in production and share gains in China.
Price Action
Adient shares were down 0.74 percent at $56.20 at the time of publication Wednesday.
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