Adient plc
boothcheck covers Adient plc (ADNT) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 25, 2026.
• Seats are the single largest and bulkiest thing bolted into a car, and the 10-K describes Adient as ⟦a global leader in complete seat assembly and one of the largest in all major seating components including seating foam, metal structures, seat covers and seat mechanisms⟧, split across the Americas at 47% of revenue, EMEA at 33% and Asia at 21%. • The defining risk is that this scale converts to almost no profit: the trailing operating margin is negative at -0.6% and even the through-cycle fig
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276 institutional managers reported holding ADNT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 28 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 5.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (5.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
ADNT has cut its share count 16.8% over the past five years, spending $490.00M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $425.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at ADNT over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 16 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ADNT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-04 | -9.0% | +13.7% |
| 2023-08-03 | +4.2% | -21.4% |
| 2023-11-18 | -15.1% | +1.0% |
| 2024-02-08 | -5.9% | -7.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ADNT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-21 (items 1.01, 2.03); 2026-08-13 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-08-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-10 (items 5.02); 2026-05-20 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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