Ford Motor Company Company Profile (NYSE:F)

Ford Motor Company trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "F."

Ford Motor Company declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 10th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 20th will be given a dividend of $0.15 per share on Thursday, June 1st. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.49%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 18th. View Ford Motor Company's Dividend History.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April, 27th. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.34 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $36.48 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $34.62 billion. Ford Motor Company had a net margin of 3.08% and a return on equity of 23.23%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.68 earnings per share. View Ford Motor Company's Earnings History.

Ford Motor Company updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.30-0.35/share for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.47.

20 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Ford Motor Company's stock. Their forecasts range from $10.00 to $20.00. On average, they anticipate Ford Motor Company's share price to reach $13.63 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Ford Motor Company.

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Ford Motor Company stock:

• 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Quarterly estimates for Ford have been going down lately. The company has provided weak earnings guidance for the first quarter of 2017. Ford is facing a number of regional challenges, including continued losses in South America and Brexit-related concerns. Moreover, frequent product recalls and rising structural expenses are other issues faced by the company. Ford has also underperformed the Zacks-categorized Automotive-Domestic industry over the last three months. However, the positives for the company include product launches, global expansion plans, efficient capital deployment, success of the One Ford plan, focus on autonomous vehicle development and a solid long-term outlook." (4/24/2017)
• 2. Morgan Stanley analysts commented, "While we recognize sentiment on Ford may be as low as any name under our US coverage, we think is it justifiably so. The market appears to have moved against Ford along some key vectors in a meaningful way. Some tweaks to our earnings model drive a slight reduction of price target to $11 from $12 previously. We have made rather small adjustments to our earnings model, mostly reducing our NA and European pricing assumptions to reflect an increasingly competitive market environment in passenger car segments (i.e., excluding SUVs and pickups) where we see Ford as relatively more exposed than its peers. This leads to our NA pretax margin falling 110bps to 8.6% in 2017 from 9.7% in 2016. The EPS impact is a negative revision of 4% for our 2017 EPS and a 2% negative revision for 2018 and 2019. Following the cut, our 2017 EPS forecast is 3% below consensus before falling to levels 11% and 12% below consensus in 2018 and 2019 respectively. We wanted to take this opportunity to point out how significantly our earnings forecast for Ford lags that of the market. The impact on our LBO-based price target is a slight reduction to $11 from $12 previously, suggesting 12% downside to fair value.Key headwinds on Ford's product strategy:High exposure to small cars.High exposure to downsized/boosted engines.The emphasis on material science to reduce weight in the pickup truck may have come at the sacrifice of margin.Relatively low exposure to full sized SUVs vs. key domestic peers.Low exposure to premium brands.Ford's NA margins peaked at over 10% in 2012 and 2013 and stood at a still-very-strong 9.7% in 2016. We forecast a 'soft landing' to 7.7% NA margins by 2020 before stabilizing at 5.5% through the cycle. Any sign that a mid-single-digit forecast level could be catalyzed earlier could help wash-out consensus expectations. Please note, we are not at this time forecasting an NA margin decline of several hundred basis points for Ford, but we are watching the situation closely." (3/7/2017)
• 3. Jefferies Group LLC analysts commented, "Ford's bad news has been more than dissected in the last 6 months and sufficiently priced-in. Cyclical risks remain but estimates are holding up and Ford would benefit most among D3 from 1) infrastructure spending, 2) border adjusted tax reform and 3) exposure to a Russian auto recovery, all of which could spring earnings surprises. We upgrade to Hold (PT from $10 to $12) and switch relative preference from GM where cash returns appear at risk." (2/10/2017)
• 4. Barclays PLC analysts commented, "We see the biggest source of weakness from NA, with profits contracting by $1.2bn (down to $8.8bn), and with margin compression of 110bp down to 8.4%. Smart Mobility strategy update to give us greater comfort on Ford’s role in a world of #disruptivemobility: We expect Ford to show how it will expand its role in a world of #disruptivemobility beyond just vehicle manufacturing. We are also likely to get a more clear framework of its technology portfolio in electrification and autonomous (leveraging its autonomous announcement last month, and today’s mobility announcement that it is buying a shuttle service that uses Transit vans). Still expect OEMs to outperform suppliers, but beware volatility: We still believe that OEM stocks should outperform suppliers for now, given significantly depressed valuations and solid dividend yields for the OEMs. That said, negative datapoints will cause volatility, and we believe that Ford stock may underperform in the very near-term off a weaker outlook." (9/12/2016)
• 5. Rodman & Renshaw analysts commented, "With this transition now complete, we believe the company should make steady progress towards achieving mid-30 percent gross margins (from high-20 percent levels currently)," analyst Amit Dayal wrote in a note.On the revenue front, the analyst said the company's expanding distribution strategy and growing portfolio of LED offerings should give investors more confidence in its ability to capture share in the fast growing LED market.Related Link: Pacific Crest Favors Veeco Over Cree In LED SectorThe company has sold its products to about 178 Fortune 500 companies like General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), Toyota Motor Corp (ADR) (NYSE: TM) and The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO).Dayal believes Orion's existing relationship with these large customers should position it very competitively to win new LED business as replacement cycles come up. LED Sector On The Rise"We believe the LED deployment opportunity within the existing high bay customer base alone is $850 million and overall less than 5 percent of the OESX deployed facilities have been retrofitted with LED systems," Dayal noted.By 2030, LED lighting is estimated to account for the majority of installations and be equivalent to 88 percent of all "lumenhours" produced for general lighting. As such, the analyst believes Orion's total addressable market for retrofit lighting systems in North America is about $200 billion.Orion's stock has traded between $1.04 and $2.50 over the last 52-week period, with a significant drop seen in early February 2016 on the back of weaker third-quarter revenues. Looking ForwardThe stock has been depressed since those results, as investors await indications of improvement in in the company's LED sales and would like to see contribution from LED's steadily expand every quarter. Related Link: Pacific Crest Remains A Buyer Of Veeco Instruments Following Recent Site Visit"Given these results we are taking a slightly conservative stance and are anticipating that some weakness may persist in the FY4Q16 results," (7/18/2016)

Ford Motor Company saw a decline in short interest in the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 116,035,323 shares, a decline of 6.0% from the April 28th total of 123,478,223 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 41,643,943 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Approximately 3.0% of the company's shares are short sold.

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Ford Motor Company's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (6.58%), BlackRock Inc. (5.75%), State Street Corp (4.09%), Wellington Management Group LLP (1.90%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.03%) and Morgan Stanley (0.98%). Company insiders that own Ford Motor Company stock include Bennie W Fowler, Bradley M Gayton, David G Leitch, David L Schoch, Hau N Thai-Tang, James D Farley Jr, John C Lechleiter, John Fleming, Joseph R Hinrichs, Mark Fields, Sankar S Nair, Stuart J Rowley, William Clay Ford Jr and Ziad S Ojakli. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ford Motor Company.

Ford Motor Company's stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Credit Agricole S A, SG Americas Securities LLC, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, Capital Fund Management S.A., Ameriprise Financial Inc. and AXA. Company insiders that have sold Ford Motor Company stock in the last year include Bennie W Fowler, Bradley M Gayton, David L Schoch, Hau N Thai-Tang, Sankar S Nair and Ziad S Ojakli. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ford Motor Company.

Ford Motor Company's stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, State Street Corp, Geode Capital Management LLC, Swiss National Bank, WINTON GROUP Ltd and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Ford Motor Company stock in the last two years include John C Lechleiter and William Clay Ford Jr. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ford Motor Company.

Shares of Ford Motor Company can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of Ford Motor Company stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.93.