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Kongsberg Automotive ASA

KOA.OL
45
Auto - Parts · Consumer Cyclical
Also trades as: 0HW0.L
Price
kr 2.12
-0.03 (-1.40%)
Market Cap
kr 1.98B
Exchange
Oslo Stock Exchange
Winston Score
45
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.
Data as of Aug 12, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

Share count falling — buybacks

13.0% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 1.07B (2021) → 929.4M (2025)

Kongsberg Automotive ASA is a Norwegian company that makes parts and systems for vehicles. Its main products include gear shifters, seat comfort systems, fluid transfer systems, and driver control components. It sells these parts to large automakers — called OEMs — like Volkswagen, Ford, and Stellantis, making it a supplier deep inside the global automotive supply chain.

The company earns money by manufacturing and selling these components directly to vehicle makers under long-term supply contracts. It operates across Europe, North America, and Asia, with dozens of production facilities worldwide, and generates roughly $1 billion in annual revenue. Its main competitive advantage is its engineering relationships with major automakers, but those same relationships create risk — if a key customer cuts orders or shifts to a new platform, revenue can drop quickly. The bigger long-term challenge is the transition to electric vehicles, which changes which components cars need and could reduce demand for some of Kongsberg Automotive's traditional products.

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Quality

Gross Margin
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
5.0%
Thin — 5.0% operating margin
ROCE
2.9%
Weak — 2.9% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
-50.6%
Shrinking sales (-50.6% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
5/8 quarters
Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
280%
Turns 280% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
-1.6%
Burning cash (-1.6%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.67
Moderate — manageable debt (0.67)
Interest Cover
1.97x
Dangerous — barely covers interest (2.0x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
105.0x
Expensive — P/E 105.0

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+28.5
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (105.0 → 76.5)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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