Is it safe?
Can LEA take a bad year?
Lear Corporation carries $1.86B of net debt at 1.29× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.86B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.29×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.33× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.92
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 8.46×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.74B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $882M
- Net debt
- $1.86B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.45B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $851M
- Debt / equity
- 0.54×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.90×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −65%
- Below its 52-week high
- −16%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.