Lear (LEA)

• Market cap: $5.33B
• 1 day: 0.53%
• 5 days: 11.64%
• 1 month: 3.06%
• 3 months: -3.18%
• 6 months: -5.27%
• Year to date: 7.10%
• 1 year: -29.61%
• 5 years: -2.66%
• 10 years: -6.91%
• 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)

3.63% more ownership

Funds ownership: 98.41% [Q3] → 102.04% (+3.63%) [Q4]

1% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 140 | Existing positions reduced: 139

8% less funds holding

Funds holding: 427 [Q3] → 393 (-34) [Q4]

13% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $6.05B [Q3] → $5.25B (-$801M) [Q4]

29% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 63 | Existing positions closed: 89

34% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $25.1M | Put options by funds: $38.4M

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $102 3% upside
• Avg. target: $116 17% upside
• High target: $143 44% upside

6 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 33%
• neutral: 4 67%
• negative: 0 0%

Morgan Stanley Adam Jonas 56% 1-year accuracy 28 / 50 met price target	26% upside $125	Overweight Maintained	3 Mar 2025
Evercore ISI Group Chris McNally 38% 1-year accuracy 3 / 8 met price target	11% upside $110	In-Line Maintained	10 Feb 2025
UBS Joseph Spak 36% 1-year accuracy 5 / 14 met price target	3% upside $102	Neutral Maintained	7 Feb 2025
Wells Fargo Colin Langan 22% 1-year accuracy 8 / 36 met price target	4% upside $103	Equal-Weight Maintained	7 Feb 2025
JP Morgan Ryan Brinkman 26% 1-year accuracy 9 / 34 met price target	44% upside $143	Overweight Maintained	27 Jan 2025