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Largest AutomotiveTech Public Companies in Germany
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche and Daimler Truck.
 | Mercedes-Benz Group is a premium automotive original equipment manufacturer, selling around 2 million passenger cars, including its Chinese joint venture, and just under 400,000 vans per year. The company's financial profile improved significantly following the spinoff of Daimler Truck in 2021. Unlike most automotive OEMs, Mercedes operates under its brand alone. In 2024, 14% of its passenger cars sold were top end (G Class, Maybach, AMG, S Class), 59% were core (C and E Class), and 27% entry (A and B Class). In volume terms, Asia and Europe are Mercedes' largest markets, each at just under 40% of 2024 vehicle sales, followed by North America at 16%. | $60 | +4% | $57B | $125B | 0.8x | 7.7x | ||
| Volkswagen is the second-largest automotive original equipment manufacturer by vehicle sales globally, selling 9 million vehicles in 2024. Its four vehicle segments core (Volkswagen, SEAT, Skoda, and VW commercial), progressive (Audi, Lamborghini, and Bentley), sports luxury (Porsche), and Traton commercial vehicles (Traton, Scania, Navistar, MAN, and VW truck and bus) contribute 43%, 20%, 11% and 14% to group revenue, respectively. It also has a vehicle software business (Cariad), batteries, power engineering production, and financial services. | $107 | +2% | $54B | $188B | 0.5x | 3.2x | ||
| BMW is a premium passenger car and motorcycle original equipment manufacturer, home to the brands BMW, Mini Cooper, Rolls-Royce, and BMW Motorrad. BMW sold 2.7 million vehicles in 2024 (2.5 million were passenger cars). In terms of sales volumes, Europe and Asia are BMW’s largest regions, contributing 40% and 37%, respectively. BMW's core competence is in the "affordable" luxury channel, with limited exposure to high-end priced vehicles. | $86 | -1% | $52B | $130B | 0.8x | 5.7x | ||
| Porsche designs, engineers, and manufactures premium cars synonymous with its racing history heritage, engineering mastery, sporty design, and driving experience. Porsche is uniquely positioned in that its brand is associated with luxury, but it produces cars on a much larger scale than its superluxury peers. Porsche sold 311,000 vehicles in 2024 at an average price of EUR 129,000. Europe, North America, mainland China including Hong Kong, and the rest of the world accounted for 36%, 28%, 18%, and 18% of volume in 2024, respectively. Ninety-two percent of revenue is generated from the sale of cars and related services, with the remainder from the captive finance arm. Porsche’s equity is tightly held with Volkswagen owning 75.4% and Porsche SE (the Porsche/Piech family) owning 12.5%. | $55 | +13% | $50B | $53B | 1.3x | 7.6x | ||
| Daimler Trucks is the largest global truck and bus original equipment manufacturer, producing around 500,000 trucks per year. It has the dominant share of the highly concentrated North American truck market, at just under 40%, with its brands Freightliner and Western Star. It also has a large share, just below 20%, of the European truck market with its Mercedes-Benz brand offering. Its segments of Trucks North America, Trucks Mercedes-Benz, Trucks Asia, and Daimler Buses contribute 41%, 33%, 11% and 9% to revenue, respectively; however, Trucks North America contributes disproportionately (64%) to EBIT. An in-house financial services arm supports these businesses. Daimler spun out of Mercedes-Benz in December 2021. | $48 | +3% | $37B | $55B | 1.0x | 10.3x | ||
| Knorr-Bremse AG is engaged in the development, production, marketing, and servicing of Automotive parts. It operates its business activities in two divisions: Rail Vehicle Systems and Commercial Vehicle Systems. Its product portfolio comprises Braking, entrance, and HVAC systems; power electric and control technology; digital solutions; couplers; signal systems; pneumatic braking systems; energy supply and distribution systems; wiper and wash systems; and others. Majority of revenue is from Rail Vehicle System. Its geographical segments are Europe/Africa, North America, South America, and Asia-Pacific. | $117 | +24% | $19B | $21B | 2.3x | 14.1x | ||
| Porsche Automobil Holding SE is an automotive holdings company. The company's core investment is a controlling stake in Volkswagen AG. Through this stake, Porsche SE has an interest in passenger and luxury car manufacturers which include Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, SKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Porsche; motorcycles under the Ducati brand name; and commercial vehicles under Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania, and MAN. In addition to the automobile manufacturers, this core investment provides Porsche Automobil exposure to the Volkswagen Financial Services financing business. Porsche SE also has a minority stake in technology company INRIX, a company that provides connected-car services and real-time traffic information. | $37 | -4% | $11B | $17B | 5.4x | 5.0x | ||
| HELLA GmbH & Co KGaA is a manufacturer of lighting and electronic components and systems for the automotive industry. The company also produces complete vehicle modules, air-conditioning systems, and vehicle electrical systems in its joint-venture companies, as well as products for specialist vehicles. Further, Hella operates a trade organisation for automotive parts, accessories, diagnosis, and services in Europe. The company is controlled through a pooled family majority shareholding in the group. The company has three reportable segments which are Lighting, Electronics and Lifecycle Solutions. The company generates majority of the revenue from Lighting segment. | $84 | -15% | $9B | $9B | 1.0x | 7.2x | ||
| Aumovio is a global tier-one automotive parts supplier, holding number one, two, or three market share positions across most of its portfolio. Operating segments include safety and motion (SAM)(38% of revenue in 2024), architecture and network solutions (ANS)(28%), autonomous mobility (AM)(17%), user experience (UX)(16%), and contract manufacturing (1%). By far its largest product by revenue contribution is brake systems (SAM), which accounts for around a quarter of group revenue, followed by control units (ANS), display solutions (UX), and radars (AM) – a product offering skewed toward hardware. Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and other countries contribute 51%, 21%, 25% and 3% to revenue, respectively. | $46 | -- | $5B | $3B | 0.1x | 1.8x | ||
| ADS-TEC Energy PLC produces, develops, and markets battery-buffered EV charging systems infrastructure, battery storage systems, and cloud-based services that enable the customer to control and manage the system. ADSE generates revenue mainly through the sale of its products, services, and Big-LinX. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Germany. | $11 | -18% | $852M | $853M | 23.2x | (327.4x) | ||
| Innoviz Technologies Ltd is a provider of solid-state LiDAR and perception solutions that feature technological breakthroughs across core components and bring enhanced vision and superior performance to enable safe autonomous driving at a mass scale. The company provides a complete and comprehensive solution for OEMs and Tier-1 partners that are developing and marketing autonomous driving vehicles to the passenger cars and other relevant markets, such as robotaxis, shuttles, delivery vehicles, buses and trucks and other industries that require 3-dimensional high resolution sensors. Company's solutions can enable safe autonomy for industries like logistics, drones, robotics, construction and other industrial applications, agriculture, smart city, smart infrastructure, security and mapping. | $1 | -52% | $173M | $147M | 2.7x | (2.7x) | ||
| XCHG Ltd is engaged in designing, manufacturing and selling Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers and EV charging solutions, which include the DC fast chargers named the C6 series and the C7 series, the battery-integrated DC fast chargers which is Net Zero Series (NZS), as well as accompanying services. Its integrated solution, combining proprietary charging technology, energy storage technology, and accompanying services significantly improves EV charging efficiency and unlocks the value of energy storage and management. Its NZS solution enables fast charging at low power locations or vis-a-vis aged grid infrastructures (which typically are not compatible with fast charging equipment) with no site improvements or grid upgrades needed. | $1 | -55% | $49M | $46M | 1.8x | (1.4x) | ||
| Delticom AG operates as a German online tyre retailer and automotive accessories company. It operates in one segment and focuses on selling tyres, automotive accessories. | $3 | +2% | $43M | $122M | 0.2x | 5.3x | ||
| Next e GO NV designs and manufactures battery electric vehicles for the urban environment, with focus on convenience, reliability and affordability. It has developed a disruptive solution for producing its electric vehicles using proprietary technologies and low cost MicroFactories. | -- | -- | $9K | $9K | - | - | ||
| Median | $48 | +0% | $10B | $13B | 1.0x | 5.3x |
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