LEAR
Lear Corporation is a United States automotive supplier incorporated in the State of Delaware, with its principal executive offices at 21557 Telegraph Road, Southfield, Michigan 48033. It files with the US Securities and Exchange Commission under Central Index Key 0000842162, SEC file number 1-11311 and IRS Employer Identification Number 13-3386776, and its common stock of $0.01 par value is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LEA. The title stored on this profile, LEAR, is the brand and ticker shorthand the company uses for itself rather than a corporate name; the registered name on the cover page of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 is Lear Corporation.
Lear Corporation designs, engineers and manufactures products for the global light-vehicle original equipment market through two reporting segments. Seating covers complete seat systems and key seat components, including seat trim covers, leather and fabric surface materials, seat mechanisms, cushioning, headrests and thermal comfort systems such as heating, ventilation, active cooling, pneumatic lumbar and massage. E-Systems covers complete electrical distribution and connection systems, including low-voltage and high-voltage wire harnesses, terminals and connectors and high-voltage battery connection systems; high-voltage power distribution products such as battery disconnect units; and low-voltage power distribution products, zonal and body domain controllers and the embedded and cybersecurity software that runs on them. The products are engineered for internal combustion, hybrid and battery-electric vehicle architectures, and the company reports automotive content on more than 500 vehicle nameplates worldwide.
Figures reported by Lear Corporation are consolidated, covering the company together with its consolidated subsidiaries. Consolidated net sales for the year ended 31 December 2025 were $23,259.1 million, of which Seating accounted for $17,283.0 million, or 74.3 per cent, and E-Systems for $5,976.1 million, or 25.7 per cent. Net income attributable to Lear was $436.8 million for the same year. Global employment was approximately 164,300 people at 31 December 2025, compared with approximately 173,700 a year earlier, and the company reported 258 manufacturing, engineering and administrative locations in 36 countries. Customer concentration is high: in 2025 General Motors accounted for about 22 per cent of consolidated net sales, Ford about 12 per cent, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen about 10 per cent each and Stellantis about 9 per cent.
The business traces its origin to a company founded in Detroit in 1917 as American Metal Products, and Lear Corporation states in its 2025 Form 10-K that it was incorporated in Delaware in 1987 and completed an initial public offering in 1994. SEC records list Lear Seating Corporation as a former name of the registrant, used until 1996. Two identifiers held in this record do not match that history. The incorporation date of 25 April 1962 is not supported by any filing reviewed. The registration number C0431767 is attributed here to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, but a letter C followed by seven digits is the format California uses for corporation numbers, it is not a Michigan LARA entity identifier, and Lear Corporation is in any case a Delaware corporation and not a Michigan one, so the number and the named register cannot be reconciled and neither matches the state of incorporation printed on the Form 10-K cover page. The identifiers that can be verified for this entity are its SEC Central Index Key, its SEC file number and its IRS Employer Identification Number. On 24 September 2026 the company announced an increase in its share repurchase authorisation to $1.5 billion, extended to 31 December 2029.
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Shareholders
Shareholders of Lear Corporation
Lear Corporation is a Delaware corporation whose common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange, so no complete register of its shareholders is public. What is published is the set of reportable positions: holders of more than 5 per cent of the class file a Schedule 13G or 13D with the SEC, and the company restates those positions in its annual proxy statement. The Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on 2 April 2026 reports beneficial ownership as of the record date of 16 March 2026, calculated on 50,626,959 shares of common stock outstanding.
Four holders were reported above 5 per cent. Pzena Investment Management, LLC held 7,764,912 shares, 15.3 per cent, with sole dispositive power over all of them and sole voting power over 6,617,051, per a Schedule 13G filed on 7 October 2024. The Vanguard Group held 6,491,850 shares, 12.8 per cent, per a Schedule 13G/A filed on 31 January 2025. BlackRock, Inc. held 4,727,096 shares, 9.3 per cent, per a Schedule 13G/A filed on 24 April 2025. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP held 2,726,667 shares, 5.4 per cent, per a Schedule 13G filed on 15 July 2025. All four are investment managers reporting beneficial ownership in the SEC sense of voting and dispositive power over shares held for client accounts, and the proxy statement does not present them as economic owners. Executive officers and directors as a group, 18 individuals, held 515,521 shares, reported as less than 1 per cent. The Form 10-K records 85 holders of record on 10 February 2026, the great majority of the stock being held through nominees.
Ultimate beneficial ownership. No ultimate beneficial owner of Lear Corporation can be identified from the sources reviewed, and none is named here. No natural person is reported at or above 5 per cent in the 2026 proxy statement, and every current 5 per cent position is reported on Schedule 13G, the form used for passive investment positions. The most recent Schedule 13D or Schedule 13D amendment concerning Lear common stock on EDGAR dates from 2014, so no party currently reports a control position over the company. No ownership chain that would allow an effective percentage to be calculated for any individual is disclosed.
Data availability: Major shareholders only. The provider record behind this profile supplied no shareholder rows at all: the gd_shareholders field holds an explanatory stub and zero entries, which records the absence of supplied data and must not be read as evidence that the company has no shareholders or no beneficial owners. US federal disclosure covers reportable 5 per cent positions and insider holdings only; it does not publish a full shareholder register. The figures above are dated to the 16 March 2026 record date and to the individual Schedule 13G filing dates cited, all retrieved on 30 September 2026.
Sources
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Definitive Proxy Statement (DEF 14A), filed 2 April 2026, section Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners, Directors and Management — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000023/lea-20260402.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 13 February 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000011/lear-20251231.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC EDGAR, Schedule 13D and Schedule 13G filings relating to Lear Corporation (CIK 0000842162) — https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000842162&type=SC+13&dateb=&owner=include&count=40 (retrieved 30 September 2026)
Officers
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Directors and officers of Lear Corporation
Lear Corporation is a Delaware corporation and a New York Stock Exchange issuer, so its governance disclosure comes from SEC filings rather than from a state business register. The Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed on 13 February 2026, lists eight executive officers, appointed annually by the board and serving at its pleasure: Raymond E. Scott, President and Chief Executive Officer; Frank C. Orsini, Executive Vice President and President, Seating; Jason M. Cardew, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Alicia J. Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer; Harry A. Kemp, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer; Nicholas J. Roelli, Senior Vice President and President, E-Systems; Amy A. Doyle, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer; and Marianne Vidershain, Vice President, Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations. Separately, eleven directors were elected at the annual meeting of shareholders held on 14 May 2026, as reported under Item 5.07 of the Form 8-K filed that day: Julian G. Blissett, Jonathan F. Foster, Bradley M. Halverson, Mary Lou Jepsen, Roger A. Krone, Rod A. Lache, Patricia L. Lewis, Kathleen A. Ligocki, Conrad L. Mallett, Jr., Raymond E. Scott and Greg C. Smith. Raymond E. Scott is the only person who holds both an executive office and a board seat.
Recent officer changes. Harry A. Kemp has held the office of Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer since March 2025, having served as Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel from January 2023. Nicholas J. Roelli has been Senior Vice President and President, E-Systems since May 2024. Marianne Vidershain has been Vice President, Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations since May 2024, having been Vice President and Treasurer since February 2021. These are the dates on which each office was assumed, as stated by the company; the filings reviewed do not give a separate resignation or termination date for any predecessor, and none is asserted here.
The five officer rows carried in the provider record for this company do belong to Lear Corporation, but they are a stale snapshot. They name JAY KUNKEL, JEFFREY VANNESTE, TERRANCE LARKIN, SHARI BURGESS and RAYMOND SCOTT, all at 21557 Telegraph Road, Southfield. That set matches the executive-officer table in the Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2015, filed on 9 February 2016, which lists Shari L. Burgess as Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Diversity Officer, Jay K. Kunkel as Senior Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific Operations, Terrence B. Larkin as Executive Vice President, Business Development, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Jeffrey H. Vanneste as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Raymond E. Scott as Executive Vice President and President, Seating. Of the five, only Raymond E. Scott appears in the 2025 executive-officer list, and in a different office, as President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2018. The office of Chief Financial Officer has been held by Jason M. Cardew since November 2019, and the treasurer role by Marianne Vidershain since February 2021.
Data availability: Partial. The provider record stores only 5 of a stated 26 officer rows, flags every stored row ACTIVE with no appointment date and no resignation date, and spells one name TERRANCE LARKIN where the filings read Terrence B. Larkin. The stored rows must not be read as a current officer list, and nothing should be inferred from who is missing from them. Nationality, country of residence and date of birth are not disclosed for any of these people: US federal securities disclosure publishes names, ages and offices, but not citizenship or residence, so nationality is Not disclosed throughout. The address shown against each stored row is the corporate address of the company and is not a personal address. The current information is dated 13 February 2026 for the executive officers and 14 May 2026 for the board, both retrieved on 30 September 2026.
Sources
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 13 February 2026, Supplementary Item, Information about our Executive Officers — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000011/lear-20251231.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Current Report on Form 8-K, Item 5.07, annual meeting of shareholders held 14 May 2026, filed 14 May 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000043/lear-20260514.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Definitive Proxy Statement (DEF 14A), filed 2 April 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000023/lea-20260402.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2015, filed 9 February 2016, Executive Officers of the Company — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216216000019/lea-2015123110xk.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
Data-provider feed — rows as supplied to Zavia for Michigan LARA — Corporations Division, including entries the profile above does not cover. These rows are not a verbatim copy of the register: they have been found to duplicate the same person under different spellings and to keep a status of Active after an appointment ended. Where they disagree with the profile above, the profile is the checked version.
Group Structure
Group structure of Lear Corporation
Lear Corporation is the parent company of the Lear group and is not itself a subsidiary. It is the SEC registrant and the listed entity, no parent undertaking is disclosed in its filings, and no party currently reports a control position over it. The Form 10-K states that a substantial portion of the operations of the group are conducted through subsidiaries controlled by Lear Corporation and that the company is party to various joint venture arrangements. Exhibit 21.1 to the Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 lists 165 entities as subsidiaries and investments of the company. The exhibit states that all subsidiaries are wholly owned unless otherwise indicated; 48 of the 165 entries carry an explicit ownership percentage, and the remaining entries are therefore wholly owned. The list spans more than thirty jurisdictions, the largest concentrations being China with 44 entries, the US state of Delaware with 25, Mexico with 10, Spain and the United Kingdom with 8 each, Thailand with 7, France with 5 and Germany with 4, alongside entities in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Honduras, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and Vietnam.
Wholly owned entities named in the exhibit include Lear Corporation Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (Mexico), Lear Corporation GmbH (Germany), Lear Corporation Seating France S.A.S. (France), Lear Corporation Hungary Automotive Manufacturing Kft. (Hungary), Lear Corporation Romania S.r.L. (Romania), Lear Corporation UK Holdings Limited (United Kingdom), Lear European Holding S.L.U. (Spain), Eagle Ottawa North America, LLC (Delaware) and Xevo Inc. (Delaware). Partly held entries include Wuhan Lear-DFM Auto Electric Company, Limited (China, 75 per cent), Changchun Lear FAWSN Automotive Electrical Co., Ltd. (China, 69 per cent), Beijing BHAP Lear Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (China, 50 per cent) and Honduras Electrical Distribution Systems S. de R.L. de C.V. (Honduras, 49 per cent). The same exhibit also lists small minority positions such as Autotech Fund II, L.P. (Delaware, 3.326463 per cent), CelLink Corporation (Delaware, 3.18 per cent) and Evolved by Nature Inc. (Delaware, 3.23 per cent), which are investments rather than group companies. The percentages are those printed in the exhibit, which does not state whether they represent share capital or voting rights.
The Form 10-K adds that at 31 December 2025 the group had eighteen operating joint ventures located in five countries, of which eight are consolidated and ten are accounted for using the equity method; sixteen of them operate in Asia and two in North America. Net sales of the consolidated joint ventures were approximately 9 per cent of consolidated net sales in 2025, and investments in non-consolidated joint ventures totalled $232 million at 31 December 2025.
Recent structural changes, as disclosed in the 2025 Form 10-K, most recent first: in February 2025 Lear acquired StoneShield Engineering, a system integrator based in Castelo Branco, Portugal; in July 2024 it acquired WIP Industrial Automation, based in Valladolid, Spain; and in April 2023 it acquired I.G. Bauerhin, a supplier of seat heating, ventilation and active cooling headquartered in Grundau-Rothenbergen, Germany, for approximately $175 million.
Data availability: Partial. The provider record supplied no corporate linkage rows at all: the gd_groups field holds an explanatory stub and zero entries. That records the absence of supplied data, not the absence of relationships, and the boilerplate wording that appears in such stubs, to the effect that a company is small, operates as a single entity or has no branches or international presence, is untrue of this company and is not adopted here. The structure set out above comes from the annual subsidiary exhibit, which gives entity names, jurisdictions and ownership percentages for partly held entities, but does not give registration numbers or registered addresses, so the entities below Lear Corporation have not been matched individually to their local registers. The information is dated 31 December 2025, was filed on 13 February 2026 and was retrieved on 30 September 2026.
Sources
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Exhibit 21.1, List of Subsidiaries, to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 13 February 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000011/lear-2025dec31_exx211subsi.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC, Lear Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025, filed 13 February 2026 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842162/000084216226000011/lear-20251231.htm (retrieved 30 September 2026)
- US SEC EDGAR, Lear Corporation filing index (CIK 0000842162) — https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000842162&type=&dateb=&owner=include&count=40 (retrieved 30 September 2026)
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does LEAR do?
Lear Corporation is a Delaware-incorporated automotive supplier with principal executive offices in Southfield, Michigan. It operates two reporting segments: Seating, covering complete seat systems and key seat components including trim covers, leather and fabric surface materials, mechanisms, cushioning and thermal comfort systems; and E-Systems, covering electrical distribution and connection systems, wire harnesses, terminals and connectors, high-voltage power distribution products such as battery disconnect units, low-voltage power distribution products, electronic controllers and embedded software. It supplies the major global vehicle manufacturers and reports content on more than 500 vehicle nameplates.
Who owns LEAR?
Major shareholders only; there is no public register of the full shareholder base. Per the proxy statement filed 2 April 2026, as of the 16 March 2026 record date and on 50,626,959 shares outstanding: Pzena Investment Management, LLC 7,764,912 shares (15.3 per cent), The Vanguard Group 6,491,850 (12.8 per cent), BlackRock, Inc. 4,727,096 (9.3 per cent) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 2,726,667 (5.4 per cent), each reported on Schedule 13G. Executive officers and directors as a group (18 individuals) held 515,521 shares, less than 1 per cent. The provider record supplied no shareholder rows, which is an absence of data, not an absence of shareholders.
Who is LEAR's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No ultimate beneficial owner is identified. No natural person is reported at or above 5 per cent of Lear Corporation common stock in the 2026 proxy statement; every current 5 per cent position is held by an institutional investment manager reporting on Schedule 13G, the passive-investment form. The most recent Schedule 13D or 13D amendment concerning Lear common stock on EDGAR dates from 2014, so no party currently reports a control position, and no ownership chain is disclosed from which an effective percentage for an individual could be calculated.
What is LEAR's company registration number?
LEAR's registration number is C0431767, filed with Michigan LARA — Corporations Division in United States. Its current status on the register is active.
Is LEAR still an active company?
LEAR's status on Michigan LARA — Corporations Division is listed as active.
When was LEAR incorporated?
LEAR was incorporated on 25 April 1962, according to Michigan LARA — Corporations Division.
What is LEAR's registered address?
The registered address on file for LEAR is Southfield, United States.
What legal structure is LEAR registered as?
LEAR is registered as a Public Limited Company in United States.
What is LEAR's revenue?
Consolidated net sales for the year ended 31 December 2025 were $23,259.1 million: Seating $17,283.0 million (74.3 per cent) and E-Systems $5,976.1 million (25.7 per cent). Net income attributable to Lear was $436.8 million. Comparable consolidated net sales were $23,306.0 million in 2024 and $23,466.9 million in 2023. Global employment was approximately 164,300 at 31 December 2025. All figures are group figures covering Lear Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries.
Is LEAR listed on a stock exchange?
Listed. Lear Corporation common stock, par value $0.01 per share, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker LEA. SEC file number 1-11311, Central Index Key 0000842162, IRS Employer Identification Number 13-3386776. Public float was $5,002,133,126 at 28 June 2025 and 50,727,454 shares were outstanding at 10 February 2026 (Form 10-K cover page, filed 13 February 2026).
Who are the officers/directors of LEAR?
The Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 lists eight executive officers: Raymond E. Scott (President and Chief Executive Officer), Frank C. Orsini, Jason M. Cardew, Alicia J. Davis, Harry A. Kemp, Nicholas J. Roelli, Amy A. Doyle and Marianne Vidershain. Eleven directors were elected at the annual meeting held 14 May 2026. The provider record stores only 5 of a stated 26 officer rows; those five are genuine Lear Corporation officers but match the 2015 Form 10-K executive-officer table, all are flagged ACTIVE with no dates, and one name is misspelled (TERRANCE LARKIN for Terrence B. Larkin). They should not be read as a current officer list. Nationality and residence are not disclosed.
Does LEAR have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Lear Corporation is the parent of the Lear group and is not itself a subsidiary; no parent undertaking is disclosed. Exhibit 21.1 to the 2025 Form 10-K lists 165 entities, wholly owned unless a percentage is shown (48 entries carry a percentage), across more than thirty jurisdictions, with the largest concentrations in China (44 entries), Delaware (25), Mexico (10), Spain and the United Kingdom (8 each). At 31 December 2025 the group had eighteen operating joint ventures in five countries, eight consolidated and ten equity-method, and investments in non-consolidated joint ventures of $232 million. The provider record supplied no linkage rows at all.
Can Zavia monitor changes to LEAR's ownership over time?
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Can I access LEAR's data through an API?
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Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
This record is sourced directly from Michigan LARA — Corporations Division and was last synced on 29 September 2026.