Lear Corp (NYSE: LEA) is 1.14% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $86.28 and a high of $147.11 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The LEA stock was last observed hovering at around $95.97 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.19%.
Currently trading at $95.78, the stock is 0.30% and 0.54% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.91 million and changing -0.20% at the moment leaves the stock -8.55% off its SMA200. LEA registered -31.79% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -10.79%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $95.2658 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $104.7311.
The stock witnessed a -1.36% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 0.25%, and is 2.44% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.32% over the week and 3.09% over the month.
Lear Corp (LEA) has around 173700 employees, a market worth around $5.14B and $23.30B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 10.71 and Fwd P/E is 6.32. Profit margin for the company is 2.17%. Distance from 52-week low is 11.01% and -34.89% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (6.52%).
with sales reaching $5.47B over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -0.03% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -3.58% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -8.75% in year-over-year returns.
566.0 institutions hold shares in Lear Corp (LEA), with institutional investors hold 107.65% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 53.58M, and float is at 53.41M with Short Float at 3.78%. Institutions hold 107.08% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 7.62 million shares valued at $869.97 million. The investor’s holdings represent 13.3048 of the LEA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is PZENA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC with 7.19 million shares valued at $820.93 million to account for 12.6266 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 5.94 million shares representing 10.3811 and valued at over $678.8 million, while FMR LLC holds 5.4688 of the shares totaling 3.11 million with a market value of $355.56 million.
Lear Corp (LEA) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by Lache Rod, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Lache Rod bought 2,178 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 05 ’25 at a price of $91.80 per share for a total of $0.2 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 2178.0 shares.
Lear Corp disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on May 28 ’24 that MALLETT CONRAD L JR (Director) sold a total of 1,278 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on May 28 ’24 and was made at $124.55 per share for $0.16 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 0.0 shares of the LEA stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on May 23 ’24, SMITH GREG C (Director) disposed off 2,392 shares at an average price of $123.86 for $0.3 million. The insider now directly holds 0 shares of Lear Corp (LEA).
