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Autoliv Q3 2025 earnings summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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Q3 2025 earnings summary17 Oct, 2025

Executive summary

  • Achieved record third-quarter sales, operating income, and EPS, driven by strong demand and operational efficiencies in Americas, Europe, and Asia, with cost reductions and tariff compensation recovery.

  • Organic sales growth was 3.9%-4%, with notable outperformance in India, Americas, and Asia ex-China, and strong performance with Chinese OEMs.

  • Strategic investments in China included a new R&D center, a joint venture with HSAE, and a partnership with CATARC to advance safety technologies and standards.

  • Margin expansion resulted from operational improvements, supplier compensation, and successful tariff recovery.

  • Continued significant shareholder returns through increased dividends and share repurchases.

Financial highlights

  • Q3 2025 net sales reached $2,706 million, up 5.9%-6% year-over-year; gross profit was $522 million (19.3% margin).

  • Adjusted operating income rose 14% to $271 million (10.0% margin); operating income up 18% to $267 million.

  • Adjusted diluted EPS grew 26% to $2.32; diluted EPS up 31% to $2.28.

  • Operating cash flow was $258 million, up 46% year-over-year; free operating cash flow reached $153 million.

  • Dividend per share increased 21% to $0.85; $100 million in share repurchases in Q3.

Outlook and guidance

  • Full-year 2025 guidance: organic sales growth around 3%, adjusted operating margin 10-10.5%, operating cash flow ~$1.2 billion, and capex at ~4.5% of sales.

  • Global light vehicle production expected to grow 1.5% in 2025; Q4'25 expected to be the strongest quarter with continued outperformance in China and India.

  • Assumes no major changes in tariffs, trade restrictions, or macroeconomic environment for the remainder of 2025.

How will China investments improve overall LVP outperformance?
Future impact of efficiency gains on operating margin?
Mitigation strategy for new tariffs/trade restrictions?
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Q4 margin headwinds: temporary or structural?
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Autoliv, Inc., develops, manufactures, and supplies passive safety systems to the automotive industry in Europe, the Americas, China, Japan, and rest of Asia. The company offers passive safety electronic products, including occupant weight sensors and electronic control units; frontal airbags; side-impact airbag protection systems that include door-mounted and roof-mounted side-curtain airbags for head protection and seat mounted torso airbags; seatbelts; steering wheels; inflators; bumper and structural components; retractors. Autoliv, Inc. was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

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