Lear Corporation (LEA)

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Lear Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Lear Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $19 billion in fiscal 2016 to $23 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2.5% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Lear Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 3.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 45% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 23 sales (4 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Lear Corporation earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 10 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 65 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Lear Corporation's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $23 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 1.9% ranks in the bottom 47%; revenue growth of 3.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 47% (its annual reports).

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Lear Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Scott, Raymond E (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-11-16, 8 years (top 43% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.3 years (top 24%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 27%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Lear Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.0 billion against debt of $2.7 billion leaves -11.3% of its assets as net cash, top 47% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.3% of revenue (bottom 33%); a gross margin of 6.5% (bottom 16%) (its annual report).

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Lear Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 3.6% a year over the last three filed years against 2.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 34% of its family); the newest year grew -0.2% (bottom 34%); research spending grew 1.7% a year (bottom 48%); capital spending grew -4.2% a year (top 48%) (its annual reports). Lear Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Seating at $17 billion (74%), E Systems at $6.0 billion (26%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Lear Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $23 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5.5% below the $25 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 32% of its family); net income of $437 million against a prior three-year average of $469 million (top 50%); a net margin of 1.9% against 2.1% before (top 41%) (its annual reports).