Lear Corporation (LEA)
Consumer · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 20:39 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Lear Corporation trades at $121.37, which is 146% below the $299.00 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 28 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 13.6 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
LEA dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $2.31 | 3 |
| 2025 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2024 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2023 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2022 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.77 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.02 | 2 |
| 2019 | $3.00 | 4 |
| 2018 | $2.80 | 4 |
| 2017 | $2.00 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.20 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
LEA earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 16 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Lear Corporation
Lear Corporation designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, assembles, and supplies automotive seating, and electrical distribution systems and related components for automotive original equipment manufacturers in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. Its Seating segment offers seat systems, keyseat components, seat trim covers, seat mechanisms, thermal comfort systems such as seat heating, ventilation, active cooling, pneumatic lumbar and massage products, seat cushioning, and headrests, as well as surface materials, such as leather and fabric for light trucks, compact cars, pick-up trucks, and sport utility vehicles. The company's E-Systems segment provides electrical distribution and connection systems that route electrical signals and networks; and manage electrical power within the vehicle for various powertrains. This segment's products comprise wire harnesses, terminals and connectors, engineered components, and junction boxes; electronic system products, including body domain control modules, and high voltage switching and power control systems. It also offers software and connected services. In addition, this segment provides cybersecurity software. It offers its products and services under the GUILFORD, EAGLE OTTAWA, THAGORA, IGB AUTOMOTIVE, COMFORTFLEX BY LEARTM, LEAR, CONFIGURE+, FLEXAIR , INTU, RENEWKNIT, SOYFOAM, ProTec, and TeXstyle brands. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
LEA passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
15 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Richard Pzena, PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC$889.95M · 2.6% of book
- Greenhaven Associates, GREENHAVEN ASSOCIATES INC$195.18M · 2.3% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$159.20M · 0.1% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$32.63M · 0.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$28.13M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
LEA peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Auto Parts), then in the same sector.
- SMTOY Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- AUR Aurora Innovation, Inc.
- ALV Autoliv, Inc.
- MBLY Mobileye Global Inc.
- LKQ LKQ Corporation
- GTX Garrett Motion Inc.
- DAN Dana Incorporated
- XPEL XPEL, Inc.
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Common questions
Is Lear Corporation (LEA) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $299.00, LEA at $121.37 is 146% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own LEA?
15 of the institutions we track reported a position in LEA in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is LEA's P/E ratio?
LEA trades at 13.6 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Lear Corporation (LEA) pay a dividend?
Yes. Lear Corporation yields 2.28% at the current share price. It has paid $3.08 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 15 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its LEA data?
Fundamentals for LEA come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 20:39 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.