LEA - Lear Corporation
110.56 0.00 (0.00%)
After hours: 4:17PM EDT
| Previous Close | 111.17 |
| Open | 111.80 |
| Bid | 110.58 x 1000 |
| Ask | 110.64 x 1300 |
| Day's Range | 110.39 - 112.62 |
| 52 Week Range | 105.10 - 170.49 |
| Volume | 356,612 |
| Avg. Volume | 631,076 |
| Market Cap | 6.749B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.51 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 7.98 |
| EPS (TTM) | 13.86 |
| Earnings Date | Oct 23, 2019 - Oct 28, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 3.00 (2.70%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-08-28 |
| 1y Target Est | 142.44 |
- Simply Wall St.
What Should We Expect From Lear Corporation's (NYSE:LEA) Earnings Over The Next Year?
As Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA) released its earnings announcement on 29 June 2019, analyst forecasts seem fairly...
- Morningstar
Adient Starts to Deliver on Turnaround
Automotive seating supplier Adient's ADNT fiscal third-quarter results support our thesis of a long-term turnaround story moving in the right direction, so we are leaving our $53 fair value estimate in place. Free cash flow of $168 million declined from the prior-year quarter's $252 million, but last year included $94 million of proceeds from factoring receivables. Through June for the year, premium freight costs have fallen about 65% versus fiscal 2018, but continued manufacturing problems in the Americas and the Europe, Middle East, and Africa segments, plus large volume declines in Asia from China, led to all three geographic segments posting year-over-year declines in adjusted EBITDA.
- Bloomberg
Sluggish Car Sales Slow Down Chipmakers as Trade Woes Escalate
(Bloomberg) -- Semiconductor companies are wincing as consumers around the globe are buying fewer cars amid continuing trade tensions between the U.S. and China.China has been a pain point for the sector as the two countries continue to spar on trade, and chipmakers had braced for slumping demand in the country to dent performance. The automotive sector has emerged as one of the biggest sources of weakness and is now threatening to dampen the chances of a recovery in the latter half of the year.It has so far been an unfortunate year for automakers, as global sales shrank 6.5% from a year earlier in the first quarter of 2019, and 7% in the next three months, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. China led the decline with car sales in the country falling for 12 consecutive months through June, amid slowing economic growth, trade-related turmoil, and a weak consumer demand, exacerbated by newer and stricter emissions rules. With the U.S. and China ratcheting the turmoil up a notch this week, some say the risks of tariffs on auto imports is now higher.Many auto parts suppliers, as well as Ford Motor Co., have reported disappointing results and issued weak forecasts for the year, citing the China slowdown. And now the effect is rippling through the rest of the supply chain, hurting chipmakers and other industrial manufacturers.“China weakness was expected, but in all honesty, we were expecting a trade deal by now,” Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Harsh Kumar said in an interview. Kumar, who covers semiconductor stocks, said the companies supplying the automotive market were still seeing growth in radar and electrification-related products, while the traditional, gas engine segment is getting hit hard.Most of the automotive chip manufacturers have a larger piece of their business associated with traditional auto, and “that is not doing so well because there isn’t any market share or penetration to be gained; it is simply a units game,” Kumar said, referring to the fewer number of cars being sold.Maxim Integrated Products Inc., which makes chips that are used in various parts of a car including lighting, infotainment and driver assistance systems, said it expected the calendar third quarter to be slow, due to a “soft environment” for automotive production. The company’s battery management systems used in electric vehicles will also have fewer shipments, given the market uncertainty in China, the company said.The concerns were echoed by NXP Semiconductors NV, which makes components that help a car to sense its environment and process that data. Maxim and NXP’s customers include auto suppliers such as Aptiv Plc, Lear Corp. and Visteon Corp. as well as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. Other chipmakers with substantial auto market exposure include Infineon Technologies AG, Analog Devices Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., and Microchip Technology Inc.Meanwhile, Rockwell Automation Inc., which counts both automotive and semiconductor sectors among its customers, saw both markets decline in the quarter ending June 30.“Overall, the combination of production cuts and reductions in component inventory is having an significant impact,” Morgan Stanley’s Craig Hettenbach, who covers semiconductors, said in an email interview. The analyst said that while the weakness is most pronounced in China, Europe has also been below expectations from the beginning of the year. “There is a lot of focus on when China will provide incentives to stimulate demand, but company and investor expectations for stimulus are pretty low right now,” Hettenbach said.A respite is not expected anytime soon. According to Moody’s, global vehicle sales are expected to fall 3.8% in 2019, amid further weakening demand in China and Western Europe. The latest round of trade war-related tarriffs could make matters even worse.To contact the reporter on this story: Esha Dey in New York at edey@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brad Olesen at bolesen3@bloomberg.net, Jennifer Bissell-Linsk, Morwenna ConiamFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Thomson Reuters StreetEvents
Edited Transcript of LEA earnings conference call or presentation 26-Jul-19 12:30pm GMT
Q2 2019 Lear Corp Earnings Call
- Zacks
Lear (LEA) Lags Q2 Earnings & Revenue Estimates, Down Y/Y
Lear's (LEA) second-quarter adjusted margin in the Seating and E-Systems segments are 8.2% and 8% of sales, respectively.
Motley FoolLear Corporation(LEA) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
LEA earnings call for the period ending June 30, 2019.
- Zacks
Lear (LEA) Misses Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
Lear (LEA) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of -1.05% and -0.45%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
- Simply Wall St.
How Does Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA) Fare As A Dividend Stock?
Dividend paying stocks like Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA) tend to be popular with investors, and for good reason - some...
- Zacks
Analysts Estimate Lear (LEA) to Report a Decline in Earnings: What to Look Out for
Lear (LEA) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
- Bloomberg
They’re Actually Reinventing the Wheel to Keep Up With Robocars
(Bloomberg) -- The car industry is reinventing the wheel to prepare for autonomous vehicles.Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd., whose roots stretch back to when Henry Ford was building his Model T, is developing a “smart tire” that can monitor its own air pressure and temperature, and eventually respond by itself to changes in road conditions.Yet it’s more than just tires that are being changed. Koito Manufacturing Co., AGC Inc. and Lear Corp. are putting semiconductors and sensors inside headlights, glass and seats to make them as intelligent as the cars driving themselves.Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo LLC, Intel Corp.’s Mobileye NV and Baidu Inc. dominate the core technology for autonomous driving, yet suppliers still count on finding their own space in the business. Parts for advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving are expected to become a $57 billion market within a decade, according to BIS Research, and old-school companies born during the early days of the automobile know they must either adapt or risk extinction.“Autonomous driving is a challenge for carmakers, but it’s a bigger challenge for conventional parts makers,” said Zhou Lei, a partner at Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting in Tokyo. “They are striving to become the ‘five senses’ of the vehicle so they can remain relevant.”Carmakers have disclosed more than $14 billion in investments in autonomy and mobility companies since 2010, according to data compiled by BloombergNEF. Toyota Motor Corp. tops that list at about $3 billion.Though the deployment of highly autonomous commercial fleets isn’t expected to begin until at least 2022, the looming threat is that the increasingly sophisticated designs of those cars will render some ordinary parts –- and their suppliers -- unnecessary.For example, why would a self-driving vehicle that uses cameras, lasers and sensors to get around need headlights or mirrors?Smart HeadlightsThe response from century-old Koito Manufacturing is to reinvent the headlight. The Tokyo-based company, which traces its roots to making lenses for railway signal lamps in 1912, is adding sensors and artificial-intelligence chips to lamps it plans to introduce by about 2025.Positioned on the four edges of the vehicle, the lamps will be able to process information and react, such as by illuminating poorly lit crossings, signaling pedestrians that it’s safe to cross and raising an alarm to surrounding drivers by flashing a specific color.The company’s current customers include Toyota, Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.“Autonomous driving will change the role of lamps,” said Yuji Yokoya, who recently retired as executive vice president of the Tokyo-based company. “We see them not just as lamps, but more as corner modules.”Tokyo-based automotive glass-maker AGC is re-imagining that product and making it part of a vehicle’s communication system.Window AntennasThe company, founded in 1907 as Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., is designing windows with built-in antennas for 5G wireless connections, allowing cars to send and receive signals with other vehicles and infrastructure. AGC’s customers include Toyota, Tesla Inc. and Sony Corp., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.An overarching challenge is to convince carmakers that the smarter -- and more expensive -- components make economic sense. Not all parts manufacturers need a radical transformation to keep up with autonomous and electric vehicles since they’ve been evolving gradually as the industry takes shape, said Deepesh Rathore, an independent automobile analyst based in Bengaluru.“A car is a car, and the shape of the tire doesn’t change,” Rathore said. “I can imagine some of those companies having to reinvent everything -- especially those working with engines and gearbox technologies.”Even components that aren’t facing an immediate existential threat are evolving. Sumitomo Rubber is researching tires that can transmit data about road conditions to the car as well as to other vehicles.Smart Tires & SeatsThe next step will be a tire that automatically adapts to road conditions. When the tire detects water, it will change the structure of its surface into one that is optimal for wet roads, said Kozaburo Nakaseko, an official in the research and development division of Sumitomo.“Tires need to become smarter,” Nakaseko said. “We cannot move into an autonomous car society without information about the roads we drive on.”The innovations aren’t just limited to Japan. In the U.S., Lear Corp. is equipping its car seats with biometric sensors to detect stress, drowsiness and changes in heart rate, and then activate treatments in response. The seats also can transmit data to a doctor or family member if necessary, the company said.Other functions include controls that let users create individual “micro-climates” where they are sitting, and noise-canceling features in the headrests, the Southfield, Michigan-based company said.“All the mechanical stuff will just slowly go away, and there is a lot of electronics coming in instead,” said Egil Juliussen, principal auto analyst with IHS Markit. “You have to change in order to survive.”\--With assistance from Mei Futonaka, Anurag Kotoky, Indranil Ghosh and Gabrielle Coppola.To contact the reporters on this story: Ma Jie in Tokyo at jma124@bloomberg.net;Nao Sano in Tokyo at nsano3@bloomberg.net;Masatsugu Horie in Tokyo at mhorie3@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Young-Sam Cho at ycho2@bloomberg.net, Ville Heiskanen, Michael TigheFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Simply Wall St.
Is Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA) A Financially Sound Company?
Small-caps and large-caps are wildly popular among investors, however, mid-cap stocks, such as Lear Corporation...
- Zacks
Lear (LEA) Rides on Seating & E-Systems Amid China Woes
Lear's (LEA) Seating and E-Systems segments offer several growth opportunities.
- Simply Wall St.
Is It Time To Consider Buying Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA)?
Lear Corporation (NYSE:LEA), which is in the auto components business, and is based in United States, received a lot...
- Reuters
Auto sector scrambles after Trump threatens Mexican tariffs
Global auto and parts manufacturers scrambled on Friday to make contingency plans and look at ways of speeding some deliveries after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on all Mexican imports starting early next month. Companies based in North America, Asia and Europe were holding conference calls and meetings to explore if they could move up certain shipments of parts and vehicles to mitigate tariffs on Mexican goods, auto executives and trade group officials said. Trump said on Twitter the tariffs were aimed at Mexico's insufficient response to migrants crossing the border illegally.
Yahoo FinanceWhy Trump's Mexico tariff moves will drive up the cost of spark plugs
Trump’s threat to impose higher tariffs on imports from Mexico is walloping the auto parts sector, which sources many products from America’s neighbor to the south.
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Lear (LEA) Down 14.2% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Rebound?
Lear (LEA) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock? We take a look at earnings estimates for some clues.
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Is Lear Corporation’s (NYSE:LEA) 22% ROCE Any Good?
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ReutersU.S. rejects Tesla bid for tariff exemption for Autopilot 'brain'
U.S. trade officials rejected Tesla Inc's bid for relief from President Donald Trump's 25-percent tariffs on the Chinese-made Autopilot "brain" of its Model 3 and other electric vehicles, one of more than 1,000 product denials linked to China's industrial development plans. According to documents filed by the U.S. Trade Representative's office (USTR) and reviewed by Reuters, exclusion requests from Tesla and others for Chinese-made products from aircraft parts to biotechnology instruments were denied because they were deemed "strategically important" to the "Made in China 2025" program. Tesla declined to comment.
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UPDATE 4-U.S. rejects Tesla bid for tariff exemption for Autopilot 'brain'
U.S. trade officials rejected Tesla Inc's bid for relief from President Donald Trump's 25-percent tariffs on the Chinese-made Autopilot "brain" of its Model 3 and other electric vehicles, one of more than 1,000 product denials linked to China's industrial development plans. According to documents filed by the U.S. Trade Representative's office (USTR) and reviewed by Reuters, exclusion requests from Tesla and others for Chinese-made products from aircraft parts to biotechnology instruments were denied because they were deemed "strategically important" to the "Made in China 2025" program. Tesla declined to comment.
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Edited Transcript of LEA earnings conference call or presentation 26-Apr-19 12:30pm GMT
Q1 2019 Lear Corp Earnings Call
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Lear (LEA) Q1 Earnings & Revenues Miss Estimates, Down Y/Y
Lower production on key platforms affects Lear's (LEA) first-quarter 2019 revenues, partly offset by the addition of new business.
Motley FoolLear Corporation (LEA) Q1 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
LEA earnings call for the period ending March 31, 2019.
