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Lear Morgan Stanley’s 13th Annual Laguna Conference summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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Morgan Stanley’s 13th Annual Laguna Conference summary11 Sep, 2025

Market and financial update

  • Growth driven by key conquest opportunities and expansion with Chinese domestic automakers, with notable wins such as the F-250 wire program and BMW 5/7 Series.

  • Margin expansion target increased from $125M to $150M in net performance, with $65M attributed to automation and digital initiatives.

  • Full-year revenue is tracking toward the high end of guidance, with Q3 operating income expected between $230M and $240M, factoring in production disruptions.

  • Improved free cash flow outlook, likely exceeding $500M for the year, enabling accelerated share buybacks of $250M or more.

  • CapEx remains stable at around 3% of sales, with automation investments yielding attractive 1–2 year paybacks.

Automation and AI strategy

  • Over a decade of investment in automation, including eight acquisitions and a strategic partnership with Palantir for digital platforms and AI.

  • Purpose-built capital and in-house talent enable 20–30% cost advantage and 200–500 basis points of cost improvement, depending on program complexity.

  • Advanced manufacturing center in Michigan will showcase fully automated, lights-out production for thermal comfort systems.

  • AI and digitization integrated across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and inventory management, with proprietary systems like LearView and Thagora deployed globally.

  • 11,000 users company-wide utilize Palantir Foundry, driving 2–5% efficiency gains and rapid response to operational challenges.

Competitive positioning and growth

  • Automation and AI drive both cost savings and revenue growth, enabling rapid customer transitions and meeting price targets.

  • Significant market share gains in China, with 40% of revenue from Chinese automakers expected to rise to 50% by 2027.

  • Vertical integration and strong local leadership support competitiveness in China and globally, with ongoing wins in South America and Turkey.

  • Benchmarking against industry leaders like Autoliv, with ComfortMax and ComfortFlex automation nearing full production deployment.

  • Customers cite cost and quality as primary reasons for switching, with innovation in seating technology as a long-term catalyst.

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Lear Corporation designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, assembles, and supplies automotive seating and electrical distribution systems for automotive original equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company's Seating segment provides complete seat systems, including seat covers and trim, foam and headrests, seat frames, motors and mechanical actuators, safety belts and airbags, seats structures and mechanisms, and seat hardware; head restraints and armrests; rear seats; center consoles; interior structures; components for electronic control systems; wires; cables, lighting products; electronics modules; and power distribution centers. Its Electrical Power Management Systems segment offers front-end electronic modules comprising battery junction boxes/under hood power distribution centers that manage the voltage level supplied by the battery to various vehicle devices through a network of fuses and relays; battery cable assemblies; copper bars/bus bars to distribute current between junction boxes and other electrical components in the vehicle.

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