For new and old investors, taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals.
Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.
Different than value or growth investors, momentum-oriented investors live by the saying “the trend is your friend.” This investing style is all about taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock’s price or earnings outlook. Employing factors like one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, the Momentum Style Score can indicate favorable times to build a position in high-momentum stocks.
Autoliv, headquartered in Stockholm, is one of the leading players in automotive safety, specializing in passive safety systems. Operating primarily through its subsidiaries — Autoliv AB and Autoliv ASP — the company is at the forefront of designing and manufacturing critical safety components such as airbags, seatbelts, steering wheels, and advanced inflator technologies. Autoliv’s offerings extend to battery cable cutters and pedestrian protection systems, with a growing emphasis on mobility safety solutions. Through its new Mobility Safety Solutions unit, the company also addresses emerging needs in connected safety services and protective technologies for riders of powered two-wheelers.
ALV sits at a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), holds a Momentum Style Score of B, and has a VGM Score of A. The stock is up 3.2% and up 0.3% over the past one-week and four-week period, respectively, and Autoliv, Inc. has gained 19.1% in the last one-year period as well. Additionally, an average of 788,767 shares were traded over the last 20 trading sessions.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company’s earnings. For ALV, three analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.43 to $9.31 per share for 2025. ALV boasts an average earnings surprise of 7.9%.
ALV should be on investors’ short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.
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