Ford Motor - F Stock Forecast, Price & News

Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, markets, and services a range of Ford trucks, cars, sport utility vehicles, electrified vehicles, and Lincoln luxury vehicles worldwide. It operates through three segments: Automotive, Mobility, and Ford Credit. The Automotive segment sells Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories through distributors and dealers, as well as through dealerships to commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. The Mobility segment designs and builds mobility services; and provides self-driving systems development services. The Ford Credit segment primarily engages in vehicle-related financing and leasing activities to and through automotive dealers. It provides retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles; and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail and commercial customers, such as leasing companies, government entities, daily rental companies, and fleet customers. This segment also offers wholesale loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory; and loans to dealers to finance working capital and enhance dealership facilities, purchase dealership real estate, and other dealer vehicle programs. The company has a strategic collaboration with ARB Corporation Limited to develop a suite of aftermarket products for the new Ford Bronco. Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 and is based in Dearborn, Michigan.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on F shares. Citigroup decreased their target price on Ford Motor from $16.00 to $15.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, August 2nd. Benchmark dropped their target price on shares of Ford Motor to $23.00 in a report on Tuesday, August 9th. StockNews.com upgraded shares of Ford Motor from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, August 11th. Berenberg Bank started coverage on shares of Ford Motor in a report on Tuesday, May 10th. They set a "hold" rating and a $17.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, Tigress Financial increased their target price on Ford Motor from $20.00 to $22.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, May 20th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $17.74.

Ford Motor Trading Down 2.4 %

Shares of Ford Motor stock opened at $16.03 on Thursday. The firm's 50 day simple moving average is $12.99 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $14.82. The firm has a market capitalization of $64.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.60, a PEG ratio of 0.86 and a beta of 1.33. Ford Motor has a 12-month low of $10.61 and a 12-month high of $25.87. The company has a current ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 1.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.92.

Ford Motor (NYSE:F - Get Rating) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 27th. The auto manufacturer reported $0.68 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.44 by $0.24. The firm had revenue of $37.91 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $35.17 billion. Ford Motor had a net margin of 7.86% and a return on equity of 16.91%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 57.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.13 earnings per share. Analysts predict that Ford Motor will post 2.09 EPS for the current year.

Ford Motor Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 1st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 11th will be paid a $0.15 dividend. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.74%. This is a boost from Ford Motor's previous quarterly dividend of $0.10. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 10th. Ford Motor's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 20.98%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Ford Motor news, insider Ashwani Kumar Galhotra sold 25,892 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $12.41, for a total value of $321,319.72. Following the sale, the insider now owns 511,605 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,349,018.05. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 0.90% of the company's stock.