What does Autoliv do?

Autoliv designs and builds the safety equipment in cars that protects people during a crash, such as airbags, seatbelts, and steering wheels. It sells these parts to carmakers in the Americas, Europe, China, and the rest of Asia. It also makes safety products for commercial vehicles and for people who ride motorcycles and bikes.

What is Autoliv's fair value?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Autoliv's most-likely fair value is about $174, versus a recent price near $110. A margin-of-safety estimate, not a price target. Analysis, not advice.

Consumer Cyclical · Auto Parts · ALV

What Autoliv Does & How It Makes Money (ALV)

Updated October 2026 · reflects Autoliv's latest reported financials

Swedish maker of car airbags, seatbelts, and passive safety systems. Autoliv makes money by supplying airbag modules, seatbelts, inflators, steering wheels and related safety components to car manufacturers, which build them into new vehicles.

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How Autoliv makes money

Autoliv makes money by supplying airbag modules, seatbelts, inflators, steering wheels and related safety components to car manufacturers, which build them into new vehicles.

What Autoliv does

Autoliv, Inc. is a Stockholm-based automotive supplier focused on passive safety, meaning equipment that protects people when a crash happens. Its main products are airbag modules and components for frontal, side-impact and pedestrian protection, along with seatbelts, steering wheels, inflators and battery cut-off switches. Car manufacturers are its main customers, and it serves them across the Americas, Europe, China and the rest of Asia. Founded in 1953, the company has also moved into wider mobility safety. That includes passive safety systems for commercial vehicles and safety solutions for motorcycle and bike riders. Because it sells mostly to carmakers, its business depends on how many vehicles those carmakers produce.

Products & services

Frontal and side-impact airbag systems
Seatbelts
Steering wheels
Airbag inflators
Pedestrian protection systems
Battery cut-off switches

What is Autoliv worth?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Autoliv's most-likely value is about $174 versus a recent price near $110 (59% below fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$110) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.

Verdict: Fairly priced — no edge

Owner-earnings fair value · recent price ≈ $110

Fair value (most likely)

$174

Range

$141–$228

No-growth floor

$110

Price

~$110

Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.

Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →

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