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Lear Corp. LEA

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$23.3B

▼ 0.2% YoY

Net income

$436.8M

▼ 13.8% YoY

Free cash flow

$527.2M

▼ 6.1% YoY

In brief

What this company does

It supplies complete seat systems, key seat components, complete electrical distribution and connection systems, high-voltage power distribution products, including battery disconnect units, and low-voltage power distribution products and electronic controllers to the world's major automotive manufacturers. It has 258 manufacturing, engineering and administrative locations in 36 countries. As of December 31, 2025, its global employment levels were approximately 164,300 people. In 2025, General Motors accounted for 22% of its net sales, Ford accounted for 12%, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen each accounted for 10%, and Stellantis accounted for 9%. Its business is organized under two reporting segments, Seating and E-Systems. Lear was founded in Detroit in 1917 as American Metal Products, a manufacturer of seating assemblies and other components for the automotive and aircraft industries, and was incorporated in Delaware in 1987.

Written from the business description in Lear Corp's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 23.3B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 23.3 · Net income 0.4

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+3.6%

+6.4%

+2.5%

+4.5%

Net income

+10.1%

+22.5%

−5.2%

−0.0%

EPS, diluted

+14.2%

+25.5%

−1.6%

+4.8%

Dividend / share

+0.0%

+11.9%

Returned to shareholders

+19.7%

+29.0%

−1.4%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.4% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +22.5%, earnings per share at +25.5%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

2 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 3.3% · Net 2.3%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 9.2%

Gross margin6.5%

Operating margin3.3%

Net margin2.3%

Return on assets3.7%

EBITDAUSD 1.4B

Each USD of equity produced 9 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 490.0M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $B

FY2025 · FCF 0.5

Net buybacks $B Dividends $B

FY2025 · Dividends 0.2 · Net buybacks 0.3

Dividends paidUSD 164.8M

Net buybacksUSD 325.2M

Share of profit112.2%

Consecutive raises—

USD 164.8M in dividends and USD 325.2M in buybacks — 112% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 14.8B

EquityUSD 5.0B

CashUSD 1.0B

Gross debtUSD 2.7B

Net debtUSD 1.7B

Current ratio1.35×

Net debt stands at 34% of equity.

The 16-year record

16 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
Revenue $B	23.3	23.3	23.5	20.9	19.3	17.0	19.8	21.1	20.5	18.6	18.2	17.7	16.2	14.6	14.2	12.0
Operating income $B	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.5	1.1	1.7	1.6	1.5	1.2	0.9	0.7	·	0.6	0.4
EBITDA $B	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.6	2.1	2.0	1.8	1.5	1.2	1.0	·	0.9	0.7
Income tax $B	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.2	−0.6	0.1	0.0
Net income $B	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.8	1.1	1.3	1.0	0.7	0.7	0.4	1.3	0.5	0.4
Free cash flow $B	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.7	1.1	1.2	1.1	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.4
EPS, diluted $	8.15	8.97	9.68	5.47	6.19	2.62	12.75	17.22	18.59	13.33	9.59	8.23	4.99	12.85	5.08	4.05
Dividend / sh $	0.77	0.77	0.77	0.77	·	·	0.75	0.70	0.50	0.30	0.25	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	38	34	32	57	29	42	25	16	10	9	11	10	14	4	9	·
ROE %	9.2	10.8	11.9	7.0	8.2	3.6	17.6	27.5	36.4	32.6	25.3	22.4	13.2	43.3	22.1	17.8

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 69 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 14 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityMotor Vehicle Parts & Accessories

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2009