Bonus: Breaking Down Ford and GM Earnings
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Motley Fool Senior Auto Analyst John Rosevear and Industry Focus Host Nick Sciple discuss the recent earnings reports from Ford and GM, including Ford’s recent $500 million dollar investment in EV developer Rivian.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:06.5 | Today is Saturday, May 4th, and we're talking Ford and GM earnings. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm your host Nick Saipel and today I'm joined Molly Fool, Senior Auto Analysts John Roosevelt by Skype. |
| 0:13.8 | How you doing, John? |
| 0:15.1 | I'm doing well, Nick, how are you? |
| 0:16.4 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:17.1 | May the 4th be with you. |
| 0:19.4 | Indeed. |
| 0:20.8 | You know, since we had you in the studio already, we did our Tesla podcast on Thursday. |
| 0:24.6 | We thought we'd go ahead and kind of pre-record a bonus episode because we got Ford and GM earnings |
| 0:27.9 | and I know you follow these companies very closely. |
| 0:30.6 | So I want to kind of hit these pretty quickly for our listeners they can they can kind of know your thoughts. |
| 0:35.6 | So first I want to go into Ford. So Ford reported earnings, I believe was last week. |
| 0:40.8 | Adjusted operating profit up 12% to 2.4 billion. |
| 0:44.8 | adjusted EPS 44 cents beat consensus estimates of 27 cents. |
| 0:48.6 | They're ramping investments in autonomous vehicles and mobility. |
| 0:52.3 | What are your response to what should we be looking at from this earnings report, |
| 0:55.8 | and how investors feel about it? |
| 0:58.2 | Well, okay, back up a little bit and set the context here. |
| 1:01.7 | I had Ford CEO Jim Hackett, who came in a couple years ago, |
| 1:06.4 | has been working on improving Ford's fitness, |
| 1:10.8 | meaning its global profitability, as well as its ability to respond to changing |
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