Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP)
Aftermarket auto parts maker, two thirds abroad. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 145 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
16%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
5,700
Leading staffing pattern
Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now16%
- End of 202724%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 70%
- Becomes checking a model's work 25%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
Standard Motor Products’ approximately 5,700 employees, 3,800 of them abroad and 2,900 in production, make engine management and temperature control parts, read as one motor vehicle parts pattern.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 16% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 14% people work and 57% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 1,900 of 5,700 employees are in the United States and 3,800 abroad, by the filing.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 5,700 people, with 1,900 people in the United States and 3,800 people in Mexico, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, China and Hong Kong.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): engine management and temperature control parts for the aftermarket made in plants in Mexico, Poland and elsewhere, with about 2,900 production employees of 5,700, motor vehicle parts. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 5,700 employees, 1,900 in the U.S.; about 2,900 production employees; about 94 UAW-represented employees in Kansas and 1,300 in Mexico represented by works councils or unions; joint venture employees excluded.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Lear Corporation (LEA, 164,300 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028
- Aptiv PLC (APTV, 140,000 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028
- Adient plc (ADNT, 65,000 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028
- Autoliv, Inc. (ALV, 64,300 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028
- BorgWarner Inc. (BWA, 37,500 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028
- Dana Incorporated (DAN, 26,900 employees)17% now, 30% by 2028
- Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. (CPS, 22,000 employees)16% now, 28% by 2028
- Dauch Corp. (DCH, 18,000 employees)17% now, 29% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI five times, as a competitive risk: competitors adopting AI faster, and the need to invest in AI capabilities.
- “These factors may allow our competitors to: respond more quickly than we can to new or emerging technologies, such as the identification of potential uses and successful adoption of artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies, and changes in customer requirements by devoting greater resources than we can to the development, promotion and sale of automotive products and services; engage in more...”
- “Furthermore, if we do not invest in or effectively use AI capabilities, or if competitors leverage these technologies more successfully, our competitive position could suffer.”
- “Furthermore, artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies are increasingly being used in our industry.”
- “The use of AI-based solutions by our business partners could lead to the public disclosure of confidential and proprietary business information (including personal data) in contravention of our policies, contractual requirements and applicable data protection laws.”
- “The use of AI tools by our customers, suppliers and business partners may also increase our vulnerability to cybersecurity incidents.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20255median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,700 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,600 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 5,200 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,900 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,000 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,300 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,200 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,400 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,200 | 2018-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,100 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,400 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,400 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 3,400 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 3,500 | 2013-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 3,400 | 2012-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 1,900 | 2011-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,000 | 2010-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,300 | 2009-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,000 | 2008-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 3,000 | 2007-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 3,000 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 3,000 | 2005-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 3,500 | 2004-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 2,200 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 3,300 | 2002-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 3,400 | 2001-04-02 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 3,600 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 3,700 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 4,400 | 1998-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 4,200 | 1997-04-03 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 3,470 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 3,300 | 1995-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 3,450 | 1994-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Joint venture employees are outside the count, as the filing states.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000093389-26-000012, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Standard Motor Products, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Standard Motor Products, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Standard Motor Products, Inc. employ?
- 5,700 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 33% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Standard Motor Products, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 14% people work and 57% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Standard Motor Products, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 5 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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