Industry: Auto Parts

Sector: Consumer Cyclical

Sypris Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of truck components, oil and gas pipeline components, and aerospace and defense electronics primarily in North America and Mexico. It operates in two segments, Sypris Technologies and Sypris Electronics. The Sypris Technologies segment supplies forged, machined, welded, and heat-treated steel components for the commercial vehicle, off highway vehicle, recreational vehicle, automotive, industrial, light truck, and energy markets. This segment also offers drive train components, including axle shafts, transmission shafts, gear sets, steer axle knuckles, and other components for automotive, truck, and recreational vehicle manufacturers. In addition, the segment provides value added operations for drive train assemblies; and manufactures pressurized closures, insulated joints, and other fabricated and specialty products for oil and gas pipelines and related energy markets. The Sypris Electronics segment offers electronic manufacturing services, such as circuit card and full box build manufacturing, high reliability manufacturing, systems assembly and integration, design for manufacturability, and design for specification work for aerospace and defense electronics markets. This segment also provides circuit card assembly services for electronic sensors and systems, including radar systems, tactical ground stations, navigation systems, weapons systems, and targeting and warning systems; and value-added solutions, such as low-volume prototype assembly and high-volume turnkey manufacturing. The company also offers engineering design and repair or inspection services. In addition, it sells its engineered product under the Tube Turns brand. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Sypris Solutions Inc is evaluated using Mavefund's quality framework: growing earnings, durable profit margins, conservative leverage, strong return on equity, and disciplined share repurchases.