Is Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F) Worth It? How Should Investors Deal With It?

During the last session, Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F)’s traded shares were 14.94 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.63. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $10.72, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.09% or -$0.01. The 52-week high for the F share is $14.85, that puts it down -38.53 from that peak though still a striking 11.47% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $9.49. The company’s market capitalization is $42.60B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 54.28 million shares, and the average trade volume was 52.01 million shares over the past three months.

Ford Motor Co (F) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.62. F has a Sell rating from 3 analyst(s) out of 25 analysts who have looked at this stock. 7 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 15 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.35.

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Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) trade information

Ford Motor Co (F) registered a -0.09% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.09% in intraday trading to $10.72, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -3.16%, and it has moved by -3.07% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 6.73%. The short interest in Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) is 106.07 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.03 day(s) to cover.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $15, which implies an increase of 28.53% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $10 and $29 respectively. As a result, F is trading at a discount of -170.52% off the target high and 6.72% off the low.

Ford Motor Co (F) estimates and forecasts

Statistics show that Ford Motor Co has underperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. Ford Motor Co (F) shares have gone down -11.48% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate less than the industry average at -9.95% against -8.10. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2024. Revenue is predicted to grow 19.10% this quarter and then drop -3.47% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 6.04% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 43.83B as predicted by 8 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 3 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 44.06B by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 43.21B and 39.89B respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 1.42% and then jump by 10.46% in the coming quarter.

An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 3.18%. While earnings are projected to return -9.31% in 2024, the next five years will return 3.06% per annum.

F Dividends

Ford Motor Co is due to release its next quarterly earnings in December. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Ford Motor Co is 0.60, with the dividend yield indicating at 5.60 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 5.76%.

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

Ford Motor Co insiders own 0.29% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 56.26%, with the float percentage being 56.43%. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the largest shareholder of the company, while 2011.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 343.16 million shares (or 8.6113% of all shares), a total value of $4.3 billion in shares.

The next largest institutional holding, with 281.58 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 7.0766% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $3.53 billion.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Ford Motor Co (F) shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. Data provided on Jun 30, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 124.05 shares. This amounts to just over 3.18 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $1.33 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 100.65, or about 2.58% of the stock, which is worth about $1.08 billion.