Company Analysis

LG Display Co. Ltd. (LPL)

NYSE: LPL · Electronic Components, NEC · Seoul, KR · filing with the SEC since 2004
Grade3.4
◀ Past 5.0● Present 2.3▶ Future 3.4
1 est.

The grade of LG Display Co. Ltd.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.4/10
◀ Past5.030% of the headline
● Present2.340% of the headline
▶ Future3.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
9.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 92nd percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

LG Display Co. Ltd.'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).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
2.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 4 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 29th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

LG Display Co. Ltd.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from KRW 28384 billion in fiscal 2015 to KRW 26615 billion in fiscal 2024, down 0.7% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 29% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.7%bottom 29% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 29% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 29% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak28.6%bottom 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
2.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 7.4% a year. 3% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 29th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, LG Display Co. Ltd.'s diluted share count grew about 7.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 3% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 13% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

2.3/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
1.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -30%: lost 30¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 75%: owes 75¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 14th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, LG Display Co. Ltd. lost about 30 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 8 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 75 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 23.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 4% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 13% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 25% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
1.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 18% of 12 in its family; net margin -9.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 18th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

LG Display Co. Ltd.'s standing among 12 graded names in its industry family: revenue of KRW 26615 billion in fiscal 2024 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of -9.1% ranks in the bottom 13%; revenue growth of -3.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin-9.1%bottom 13% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.8%bottom 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
4.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.8/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 10 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned
family median, 10 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: LG Display Co. Ltd.'s leadership is put at 4.8 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 10 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

3.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
1.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 16% of 12 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 16th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

LG Display Co. Ltd.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2024): cash of KRW 2022 billion against debt of KRW 14550 billion leaves -38.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 4% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.1% of revenue (bottom 21%); a gross margin of 9.7% (bottom 15%); research spending of 5.4% of revenue (bottom 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-38.1%bottom 4% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue1.1%bottom 21% of its family
  • gross margin9.7%bottom 15% of its family
  • research spending against revenue5.4%bottom 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 50% of 12 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 50th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

LG Display Co. Ltd.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2024: revenue grew -3.8% a year over the last three filed years against -0.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 32% of its family); the newest year grew 24.7% (top 12%); research spending grew 5.8% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew -12.1% a year (bottom 32%) (its annual reports). LG Display Co. Ltd. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-3.1 points a yearbottom 32% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth24.7%top 12% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending5.8%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-12.1%bottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.6/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 46% of 12 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 46th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

LG Display Co. Ltd.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of KRW 26615 billion in fiscal 2024 came in 47.7% above the KRW 18021 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 5% of its family); net income of KRW 2409 billion against a prior three-year average of KRW 1480 billion (bottom 21%); a net margin of -9.1% against -6.6% before (bottom 21%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace47.7%top 5% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-63%bottom 21% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-2.4 pointsbottom 21% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton LPL · research, not advice