Lear (LEA)

• Market cap: $5.17B
• 1 day: -1.23%
• 5 days: -1.04%
• 1 month: -0.10%
• 3 months: 0.03%
• 6 months: -16.30%
• Year to date: 3.91%
• 1 year: -28.69%
• 5 years: -19.20%
• 10 years: -12.61%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories

About: Lear Corp designs, develops, and manufactures automotive seating and electrical systems and components. The company has two reporting segments Seating and E-Systems. Seating components include frames and mechanisms, covers (leather and woven fabric), seat heating and cooling, foam, and headrests. Automotive electrical distribution and connection systems and electronic systems include wiring harnesses, terminals and connectors, on-board battery chargers, high-voltage battery management systems. The company earns most of its revenue from the seating segment.

Employees: 173,700

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

3.4% more ownership

Funds ownership: 98.42% [Q3] → 101.83% (+3.4%) [Q4]

1% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 138 | Existing positions reduced: 139

10% less funds holding

Funds holding: 427 [Q3] → 385 (-42) [Q4]

13% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $6.05B [Q3] → $5.24B (-$813M) [Q4]

32% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 59 | Existing positions closed: 87

37% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $24M | Put options by funds: $38.3M

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $102 6% upside
• Avg. target: $115 19% upside
• High target: $143 48% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 1 20%
• neutral: 4 80%
• negative: 0 0%

Evercore ISI Group Chris McNally 38% 1-year accuracy 3 / 8 met price target	14% upside $110	In-Line Maintained	10 Feb 2025
UBS Joseph Spak 50% 1-year accuracy 7 / 14 met price target	6% upside $102	Neutral Maintained	7 Feb 2025
Wells Fargo Colin Langan 28% 1-year accuracy 10 / 36 met price target	7% upside $103	Equal-Weight Maintained	7 Feb 2025
JP Morgan Ryan Brinkman 42% 1-year accuracy 15 / 36 met price target	48% upside $143	Overweight Maintained	27 Jan 2025
Barclays Dan Levy 36% 1-year accuracy 14 / 39 met price target	19% upside $115	Equal-Weight Maintained	22 Jan 2025