CIE Automotive Valuation

Is CIE undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

5/6

Valuation Score 5/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of CIE when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: CIE (€25.4) is trading below our estimate of fair value (€58.26)

Significantly Below Fair Value: CIE is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for CIE?

Key metric: As CIE is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for CIE. This is calculated by dividing CIE's market cap by their current earnings.
What is CIE's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio9.7x
Earnings€312.10m
Market Cap€3.04b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does CIE's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for CIE vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average23x
GEST Gestamp Automoción
8.3x25.7%€1.5b
LGT Lingotes Especiales
21.7x16.3%€67.8m
600699 Ningbo Joyson Electronic
17.9x18.0%CN¥22.3b
SUNDRMFAST Sundram Fasteners
44.3x21.7%₹242.0b
CIE CIE Automotive
9.7x10.0%€3.0b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: CIE is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (9.7x) compared to the peer average (23x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does CIE's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Auto Components Industry?

1 CompanyPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
CIE 9.7xIndustry Avg. 9.2xNo. of Companies8PE0816243240+
1 CompanyEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
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Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: CIE is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (9.7x) compared to the European Auto Components industry average (9.2x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is CIE's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

CIE PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio9.7x
Fair PE Ratio10.7x

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: CIE is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (9.7x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Earnings Ratio (10.7x).


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst CIE forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Current€25.40
€32.73
+28.9%
8.0%€35.11€26.00n/a9
Nov ’25€24.35
€33.40
+37.2%
8.3%€35.50€26.00n/a9
Oct ’25€25.60
€33.58
+31.2%
8.6%€36.23€26.00n/a9
Sep ’25€27.15
€33.58
+23.7%
8.6%€36.23€26.00n/a9
Aug ’25€26.60
€33.58
+26.2%
8.6%€36.23€26.00n/a9
Jul ’25€26.00
€33.36
+28.3%
9.0%€36.23€26.00n/a9
Jun ’25€28.05
€32.95
+17.5%
9.7%€36.23€26.00n/a9
May ’25€24.90
€32.17
+29.2%
10.7%€36.23€26.00n/a9
Apr ’25€26.60
€31.92
+20.0%
10.1%€35.50€26.00n/a9
Mar ’25€24.86
€31.92
+28.4%
10.1%€35.50€26.00n/a9
Feb ’25€24.54
€31.73
+29.3%
10.1%€35.50€26.00n/a9
Jan ’25€25.72
€31.62
+22.9%
10.6%€35.50€26.00n/a9
Dec ’24€25.90
€31.36
+21.1%
10.4%€35.50€26.00n/a10
Nov ’24€24.30
€31.36
+29.0%
10.4%€35.50€26.00€24.3510
Oct ’24€25.64
€31.99
+24.8%
8.9%€35.50€26.50€25.6010
Sep ’24€27.68
€31.99
+15.6%
8.9%€35.50€26.50€27.1510
Aug ’24€28.46
€31.99
+12.4%
8.9%€35.50€26.50€26.6010
Jul ’24€28.00
€31.66
+13.1%
8.5%€35.00€26.50€26.0010
Jun ’24€26.88
€31.29
+16.4%
8.7%€35.00€26.50€28.0510
May ’24€27.32
€30.44
+11.4%
8.6%€33.40€24.50€24.9010
Apr ’24€26.50
€30.44
+14.9%
8.6%€33.40€24.50€26.6010
Mar ’24€27.72
€30.20
+9.0%
8.8%€33.40€24.50€24.869
Feb ’24€28.00
€29.86
+6.6%
10.0%€34.20€23.00€24.5410
Jan ’24€24.06
€29.35
+22.0%
8.4%€34.20€24.00€25.7210
Dec ’23€24.18
€29.35
+21.4%
8.4%€34.20€24.00€25.9010
Nov ’23€25.50
€29.67
+16.4%
8.3%€34.20€24.00€24.3010

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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