LG Display Co Ltd AMERICAN DEPOSITORY SHARES (LPL)

FairStock Score: 41/100 — MIXED

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AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

As a value investor, I look first for durable earning power and a margin of safety. LG Display is a capital-intensive maker of OLED and TFT-LCD panels for TVs, monitors, computers, phones, watches and autos. That is a cyclical, commodity-like business without an obvious moat. At the close on 2026-10-13, the shares were $2.72 and the market cap was $4.4B. The P/B of 0.59 means Mr. Market values equity at 59% of book, which Graham would notice. But the P/E is -2.78, EPS is -$0.98, ROE is -17.64% and ROCE is only 1.44%; the capital is not earning its keep. Debt-to-equity of 1.76 and an Altman Z-Score of -0.03 point to financial strain. In fiscal Q2 2026, the provided figures show revenue of $5.6T and net income of -$404.6B, a -7.21% margin. The EV/EBITDA of 3.68 looks cheap, but EBITDA can flatter a business with heavy depreciation and interest. Piotroski F-Score of 6/9 shows some improvement, and profit growth of 61.20% may reflect a narrower loss, while revenue growth of -8.07% shows shrinking sales. The FCF yield of 17,045.1% is so extreme relative to the $4.4B market cap that I would treat it as a units or one-off anomaly, not owner earnings. No Lynch category is available because only 0 years of filed results exist, needing 3. Without sustainable profits and lower leverage, book value could be a value trap.

In plain English: LG Display makes screens for televisions, computers, phones and cars. The business is losing money and carries a lot of debt, so it looks financially weak. The shares trade below the accounting value of its assets, which can look cheap, but the losses make that cheapness uncertain.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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