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 Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Tigress Financial lifted their price target on shares of Ford Motor from $20.00 to $22.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, May 20th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price target on shares of Ford Motor from $22.00 to $21.00 in a research report on Monday, April 25th. TheStreet upgraded shares of Ford Motor from a "c" rating to a "b-" rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 27th. Benchmark dropped their price target on shares of Ford Motor to $23.00 in a research report on Tuesday. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of Ford Motor from $13.00 to $14.00 and gave the company an "equal weight" rating in a research report on Tuesday, August 2nd. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have given a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $17.74.

Ford Motor Stock Down 3.7 %

F Stock opened at $15.19 on Wednesday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $12.69 and a 200 day moving average price of $14.94. Ford Motor has a 12 month low of $10.61 and a 12 month high of $25.87. The company has a market cap of $61.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.83 and a beta of 1.33. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.92, a current ratio of 1.16 and a quick ratio of 1.00.

Ford Motor (NYSE:F - Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 27th. The auto manufacturer reported $0.68 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.24. Ford Motor had a net margin of 7.86% and a return on equity of 16.91%. The firm had revenue of $37.91 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $35.17 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.13 EPS. Ford Motor's revenue for the quarter was up 57.1% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts expect that Ford Motor will post 2.03 earnings per share for the current year.

Ford Motor Increases Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, September 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 11th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 10th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.95%. This is an increase from Ford Motor's previous quarterly dividend of $0.10. Ford Motor's dividend payout ratio is presently 13.99%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Ford Motor news, insider Ashwani Kumar Galhotra sold 25,892 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $12.41, for a total transaction of $321,319.72. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 511,605 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,349,018.05. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. In other Ford Motor news, insider Ashwani Kumar Galhotra sold 25,892 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $12.41, for a total transaction of $321,319.72. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now owns 511,605 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,349,018.05. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, major shareholder Motor Co Ford sold 7,000,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Friday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $26.88, for a total transaction of $188,160,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 86,947,494 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $2,337,148,638.72. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.71% of the stock is owned by insiders.