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Great management team and great prospects. Auto-parts is pretty much a long-term growth business. Attractive area to be in. Historically is pretty highly correlated with housing recovery. At the same time you have emerging-market growth. This company is involved in 3 key areas including 1) fuel efficiency 2) electronic architecture in cars and 3) active safety such as electronic scanning radar for lane departure warning systems, which is still a high margin business. Trades at the discount to the sector because of a pretty ugly history.
This has technology that optimizes the powertrain. That’s important, because you have all these regulations that come out on vehicle emissions globally, and thinks this one is being grouped in with the North American peak auto fears, but most of their revenue is from outside of North America, and they have powerful tailwinds from regulatory standards coming out. Also, they make about 5X more on electric vehicles. (Analysts' price target is $60.)