Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F): Can A Stock Be Down -6.58% YTD, And Still Be A Loser

Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F)’s traded shares stood at 5.94 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.63. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $11.23, to imply an increase of 1.13% or $0.13 in intraday trading. The F share’s 52-week high remains $14.85, putting it -32.24% down since that peak but still an impressive 15.49% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $9.49. The company has a valuation of $44.61B, with an average of 57.85 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 50.49 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Ford Motor Co (F), translating to a mean rating of 2.64. Of 25 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 3 analyst(s) give F a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 7 advise Hold as 15 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.35.

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Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) trade information

After registering a 1.13% upside in the latest session, Ford Motor Co (F) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 2.42%, and 1.77% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -6.58%. Short interest in Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) saw shorts transact 106.07 million shares and set a 2.03 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $10 and $29 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, F has been trading -158.24% off suggested target high and 10.95% from its likely low.

Ford Motor Co (F) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Ford Motor Co share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Ford Motor Co (F) shares are -9.33% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at -9.45% against -7.70%. Revenue is forecast to grow 19.10% this quarter before falling -3.47% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 6.04% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 8 analysts is 43.83B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 3 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 44.06B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 43.21B and 39.89B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 1.42% before jumping 10.46% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 3.18% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a -10.35% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 3.06% annually.

F Dividends

Ford Motor Co has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-04. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Ford Motor Co has a forward dividend ratio of 0.60, with the share yield ticking at 5.35% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 5.76%.

Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F)’s Major holders

Ford Motor Co insiders hold 0.29% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 56.97% of the shares at 57.14% float percentage. In total, 56.97% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 343.16 million shares (or 8.6113% of shares), all amounting to roughly $4.3 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 281.58 million shares, or about 7.0766% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $3.53 billion.