Adient vs Lear
Lear reported revenue of $23.3 billion in fiscal 2025, 1.6 times Adient's $14.5 billion in fiscal 2025. Adient's revenue fell 1.0% in its latest year, and Lear's fell 0.2%. Free cash flow was $204 million at Adient and $527 million at Lear. Their fiscal years end in different months (September 30 and December 31), so the periods don't line up exactly.
Side by side
| Adient | Lear | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest fiscal year | FY2025, Sep 30, 2025 | FY2025, Dec 31, 2025 |
| Revenue | $14.5B | $23.3B |
| Revenue growth | −1.0% | −0.2% |
| Revenue growth a year, last 5 years | 2.8% | 6.4% |
| Gross margin | 6.6% | 6.5% |
| Operating margin | — | 3.3% |
| Net margin | −1.9% | 1.9% |
| Free cash flow | $204M | $527M |
| Free cash flow margin | 1.4% | 2.3% |
| Return on capital | 2.0% | 8.9% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 3.4x | 1.2x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $125M | $490M |
| Change in diluted share count | −7.9% | −5.1% |
| Last close | $16.75 | $116.57 |
| P/E at the last close | 30.5× | 10.9× |
| Insider trades, last 12 months | sold $715,656 | sold $15.5 million |
| Piotroski F-score | 5 of 9 | 7 of 9 |
Amounts in each company's own currency, US$ unless marked (a foreign company may report in another), each company's latest fiscal year from its 10-K, or 20-F or 40-F for a foreign company. Growth rates compare with the year before; the five-year rate is the average a year. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending; return on capital is after-tax operating income over the money invested in the business; P/E is the last close over the latest earnings per share. Banks are measured differently (return on equity, efficiency ratio), so some rows apply to one company only.
Ten years
Revenue
US$ billions, fiscal years
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Operating margin
Percent of revenue
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Free cash flow
US$ billions. Cash from operations minus capital expenditure.
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