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title: "Research Alert: CFRA Raises Opinion On Gentex Corporation Shares To Strong Buy From Buy"
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description: "CFRA has upgraded its opinion on Gentex Corporation shares from Buy to Strong Buy, maintaining a 12-month target of $32. The upgrade follows GNTX's in-line Q4 earnings, with analysts noting improved margins and increased cash returns to shareholders. GNTX's gross margin rose to 34.8% in Q4, and the company repurchased $319M of stock in 2025, alongside $107M in dividends. Despite a 17% decline in 2025, CFRA sees a mean reversion opportunity for this high-quality auto supplier with strong financials."
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# Research Alert: CFRA Raises Opinion On Gentex Corporation Shares To Strong Buy From Buy

12:15 PM EST, 01/30/2026 (MT Newswires) -- CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows:

We keep our 12-month target of $32, based on a 2027 P/E of 14.2x, a justified discount to GNTX's five-year average P/E of 17.0x. We maintain our EPS estimates of $2.00 for 2026 and $2.25 for 2027. Following GNTX's in-line Q4 earnings, we are raising our opinion on the shares to Strong Buy from Buy. In our opinion, GNTX isn't getting enough credit for recent margin improvement and increased cash returns to shareholders. GNTX's gross margin has steadily increased in each of the past four quarters to 34.8% in Q4 (+230 bps Y/Y) and it bought back $319M of stock in 2025, an increase of more than 50% from the $206M it repurchased in 2024, in addition to the $107M of cash returned to shareholders in the form of dividends (current dividend yield is 2.1%). We see a mean reversion opportunity in this high-quality auto supplier which possesses industry-leading gross margins and $151M of net cash, noting the stock's 17% decline in 2025 (vs. +16% for the S&P 500), which made it one of the industry's worst-performing names.

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