Commercial Vehicle Group
CVGIMarket price data through November 12, 2026.
Performance
Nov 2021 – Nov 2026
Track record
How this pick has done since Benson first called it.
- Benson Return
- -2%
- How much this stock is up since Benson first picked it — measured from the price at the time of that first pick, not from today.
- First pick price
- ~$4
- Roughly what one share cost when Benson first picked this stock. This is the starting line for the Benson Return.
- Tracking since
- April 2026
- The month this stock first became a Benson pick.
- Tracking duration
- 7 months
- How long Benson has been tracking this pick.
About Commercial Vehicle Group
Commercial Vehicle Group makes the seats, wiring, and interior parts that go inside big trucks, construction machines, and military vehicles. You can think of it as the company that builds the insides of the machines that build everything else. It sells to vehicle makers in North America, Europe, and Asia through three businesses: seating, electrical wiring, and interior trim.
The case for and against
Both sides of the story, in plain English.
- Sales Surge
Sales jumped 36.5% to 208.1 million dollars this quarter, and all three businesses grew at once. Interior parts for big rigs grew the most, up nearly 72%. Wiring grew 30% thanks to new contracts and more demand from construction equipment, and the company is still working with Zoox, Amazon's self driving taxi company. Management raised its full year sales forecast to between 755 and 775 million dollars.
- Back in Black
A year ago CVGI lost 6.8 million dollars in this quarter. This time it earned a 5.6 million dollar profit. Years of closing plants and cutting costs are paying off. It now keeps about 13.5 cents of every sales dollar after making its products, up from 10.5 cents. Paying down debt also cut its interest bill to 3.4 million dollars from 4.1 million.
- Profit Fine Print
That headline profit had help. It included a 4.1 million dollar one time accounting gain and a 3.1 million dollar gain from selling assets. Take out the one time items and the business earned only about 1.2 million dollars, or three cents a share. Over the past full year the company still lost money, about 3 cents on every dollar of sales.
- New Captain
CEO James Ray is stepping down. David Ruppel is taking over. He ran a 700 million dollar transportation business at the electrical parts maker Littelfuse. Changing leaders in the middle of a turnaround adds risk, and the costs of the handoff already led management to lower the top of its full year core profit forecast to 29 million dollars from 31 million. The company still rises and falls with truck orders, and it is still working to bring its debt down.
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