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

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

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares ChargePoint and Visteon”s gross 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	0.77	$201.00 million	$8.21	13.17

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%

Risk and Volatility

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

37.8% of ChargePoint shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.7% of Visteon shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of ChargePoint shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Visteon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings 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 presently has a consensus price target of $8.63, indicating a potential upside of 38.62%. Visteon has a consensus price target of $124.42, indicating a potential upside of 15.03%. Given ChargePoint’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ChargePoint is more favorable than Visteon.

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.