Financial Contrast: Visteon (NASDAQ:VC) and ChargePoint (NYSE:CHPT)

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

Volatility and Risk

ChargePoint has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visteon has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for ChargePoint and Visteon, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ChargePoint	3	6	1	0	1.80
Visteon	0	5	9	0	2.64

ChargePoint currently has a consensus price target of $8.63, suggesting a potential upside of 37.80%. Visteon has a consensus price target of $124.42, suggesting a potential upside of 8.80%. Given ChargePoint’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ChargePoint is more favorable than Visteon.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

37.8% of ChargePoint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of ChargePoint shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Visteon shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares ChargePoint and Visteon”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ChargePoint	$411.22 million	0.36	-$220.20 million	($9.33)	-0.67
Visteon	$3.77 billion	0.81	$201.00 million	$8.21	13.93

Visteon has higher revenue and earnings than ChargePoint. ChargePoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Visteon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares ChargePoint and Visteon’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ChargePoint	-53.55%	-276.06%	-20.17%
Visteon	5.99%	15.93%	7.63%

Summary

Visteon beats ChargePoint on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ChargePoint

ChargePoint Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides electric vehicle (EV) charging networks and charging solutions in the North America and Europe. The company serves commercial, such as retail, workplace, hospitality, parking, recreation, municipal, education, and highway fast charge; fleet, which include delivery, take home, logistics, motor pool, transit, and shared mobility; and residential including single family homes and multi-family apartments and condominiums customers. ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.

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.