Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP)

Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) — VMCI valuation read

Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) carries a VMCI composite of 57/100, 7 points above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 50. Among mid-cap names, that gap places SMP in the top third on the five-pillar weighting (Value 35%, Quality 30%, Integrity 15%, Growth 12%, Risk 8%).

The SMP insider tape has been silent for the past 30 days on Form 4. Where executives neither buy nor sell, the bull and bear cases lean harder on filings cadence and the next earnings line.

**Investor frame.** Value reads SMP trades at 26.0x earnings, 44% above the Consumer Cyclical median of 18.0x, which compresses or extends through the 11.0x EV/EBITDA versus a Consumer Cyclical 12.0x. Quality: ROIC of 18.0% sits 8.0pp above the Consumer Cyclical median (10.0%). Risk: net debt to EBITDA of 1.4x leaves covenant headroom, the line to track on Standard Motor Products, Inc.'s next 10-Q.

SMP fell 3.8% over the trailing 7 days, with a +2.0% read on a 30-day basis.