VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., April 25, 2019 — Visteon Corporation (NASDAQ: VC) today announced first-quarter 2019 results, reporting net income attributable to Visteon of $14 million or $0.49 per diluted share, compared with $65 million or $2.11 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2018.

First-quarter 2019 sales were $737 million, compared with $814 million in the first quarter of 2018. The decrease of $77 million is primarily due to unfavorable vehicle production volumes, customer pricing net of design changes, and unfavorable currency, partially offset by new business. Gross margin for the first quarter of 2019 was $66 million, compared with $129 million in the first quarter of 2018. The decrease is primarily due to lower sales, launch challenges with a curved center information display, inefficiencies associated with a plant transfer in Mexico, and timing of engineering expense.

During the first quarter, global vehicle manufacturers awarded Visteon new business of $1.4 billion in lifetime sales. New business win growth was driven by next-generation digital products, primarily all-digital clusters, advanced displays and SmartCore^™. U.S.-based vehicle manufacturers accounted for half of the first-quarter total.

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First Quarter in Review

Sales totaled $737 million and $814 million during the first quarter of 2019 and 2018, respectively. On a regional basis, in the first quarter of 2019 Europe accounted for 33 percent of sales, the Americas 24 percent, China Domestic 14 percent, China Export 9 percent, and Other Asia-Pacific 20 percent.

Gross margin for the first quarter of 2019 and 2018 was $66 million and $129 million, respectively. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure as defined below, was $41 million for the first quarter of 2019, compared with $104 million for the same quarter last year. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 5.6 percent for the first quarter of 2019, 720 basis points lower than the same period in the prior year.

For the first quarter of 2019, net income attributable to Visteon was $14 million or $0.49 per diluted share, compared with $65 million or $2.11 per diluted share for the same period in 2018. Adjusted net income, which excludes restructuring charges and discontinued operations, was $15 million or $0.53 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2019, compared with $64 million or $2.08 per diluted share for the same period in 2018. The company had 28.5 million of diluted shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2019, and is authorized to purchase an additional $400 million of shares through Dec. 31, 2020.

Cash and Debt Balances

As of March 31, 2019, Visteon had cash totaling $435 million. Total debt as of March 31, 2019, was $404 million.

For the first quarter of 2019, cash provided from operations was $4 million and capital expenditures were $37 million. Total Visteon adjusted free cash flow, a non-GAAP financial measure as defined below, for the first quarter was a use of $30 million, compared with $48 million provided during the first quarter of 2018.

Full-Year 2019 Outlook

Visteon updated its full-year 2019 guidance, with sales in the range of $2.90 billion to $3.00 billion, adjusted EBITDA in the range of $245 million to $270 million, and adjusted free cash flow in the range of $45 million to $70 million.

Conference Call and Presentation

Today, Thursday, Apr. 25, at 9 a.m. ET, the company will host a conference call for the investment community to discuss the quarter’s results and other related items. The conference call is available to the general public via a live audio webcast.

The dial-in numbers to participate in the call are:

U.S./Canada: 866-411-5196

Outside U.S./Canada: 970-297-2404

(Call approximately 10 minutes before the start of the conference.)

The conference call and live audio webcast, related presentation materials and other supplemental information will be accessible in the investors section of Visteon’s website. A news release on Visteon’s first-quarter results will be available in the news section of the website.

A replay of the conference call will be available through the company’s website or by dialing

855-859-2056 (toll-free from the U.S. and Canada) or 404-537-3406 (international). The conference ID for the phone replay is 6797470. The phone replay will be available for one week following the conference call.

Forward-looking Information

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "will," "may," "designed to," "outlook," "believes," "should," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "intends," "estimates," "forecasts" and similar expressions identify certain of these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and conditions but rather are subject to various factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: (1) conditions within the automotive industry, including (i) the automotive vehicle production volumes and schedules of our customers, (ii) the financial condition of our customers and the effects of any restructuring or reorganization plans that may be undertaken by our customers or suppliers, including work stoppages, and (iii) possible disruptions in the supply of commodities to us or our customers due to financial distress, work stoppages, natural disasters or civil unrest; (2) our ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; including our ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on terms acceptable to us; our ability to comply with financial and other covenants in our credit agreements; and the continuation of acceptable supplier payment terms; (3) our ability to satisfy pension and other post-employment benefit obligations; (4) our ability to access funds generated by foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures on a timely and cost-effective basis; (5) our ability to execute on our transformational plans and cost-reduction initiatives in the amounts and on the timing contemplated; (6) general economic conditions, including changes in interest rates, currency exchange rates and fuel prices; (7) the timing and expenses related to internal restructuring, employee reductions, acquisitions or dispositions and the effect of pension and other post-employment benefit obligations; (8) increases in raw material and energy costs and our ability to offset or recover these costs, increases in our warranty, product liability and recall costs or the outcome of legal or regulatory proceedings to which we are or may become a party; and (9) those factors identified in our filings with the SEC (including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2018).

Caution should be taken not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, which represent our view only as of the date of this release, and which we assume no obligation to update. The financial results presented herein are preliminary and unaudited; final financial results will be included in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2019. New business wins and rewins do not represent firm orders or firm commitments from customers, but are based on various assumptions, including the timing and duration of product launches, vehicle production levels, customer price reductions and currency exchange rates.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information

This press release contains information about Visteon's financial results which is not presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). Such non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled to their closest GAAP financial measures at the end of this press release. The provision of these comparable GAAP financial measures for 2018 is not intended to indicate that Visteon is explicitly or implicitly providing projections on those GAAP financial measures, and actual results for such measures are likely to vary from those presented. The reconciliations include all information reasonably available to the company at the date of this press release and the adjustments that management can reasonably predict.