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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford Motor Company’s Q4 2023 U.S. Market Performance
02/05/2024
The impact of the six-week UAW strike against the Detroit automakers will be the focus of Ford’s fourth-quarter and full-year financial results when they are posted after the stock market closes on Tuesday, Feb. 6. The strike began late in the third quarter and continued well into October, so the fourth quarter saw the biggest hit. Among the first Ford strike targets was the Michigan plant…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford Motor Company’s Q3 2023 U.S. Market Performance
10/25/2023
Editor's note: On the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 25, after this post was published, Ford and the UAW reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract. The contract has not been ratified by the UAW membership, but striking Ford workers will be going back to work, ending the production stoppages in Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois. The impact of the UAW strike against the Detroit automakers…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford Motor Company’s Q2 2023 U.S. Market Performance
07/26/2023
Ford is forecasted to post improved revenue and earnings when it reports second-quarter financial results after the stock market closes on Thursday, July 27. Wall Street analysts will be more concerned about future quarters than the most recent one after Ford recently slashed the price of its electric F-150 Lightning and lowered the Mustang Mach-E price on mounting inventory outpacing demand. Ford’s pricing moves, which caused…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford Motor Company’s Q1 2023 U.S. Market Performance
05/01/2023
Driven partly by strength from its electric vehicles, Ford Motor Co. could deliver better-than-expected financial results for the first quarter of 2023 when it reports them on Tuesday, May 2. Wall Street analysts expect a year-over-year decline in earnings on higher revenues. The consensus is that earnings per share will drop by 5%, but revenues will be up 13% to $36 billion. Ford closed 2022 on…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford Motor Company’s Q4 2022 U.S. Market Performance
02/01/2023
Driven in part by strength from its electric vehicles, Ford Motor Co. could deliver better-than-expected financial results for the final quarter of 2022 when it reports them on Thursday, Feb. 2, Wall Street analysts say. Ford is forecasted to be in the black for the quarter, following the third-quarter loss caused by one-time charges tied to the dissolution of the Ford and Volkswagen backed autonomous vehicle…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford’s Q3 2022 U.S. Market Performance
10/25/2022
Ford signaled in September that higher-than-expected costs would dampen its third-quarter profits due to parts shortages and inflation. Ahead of its Wednesday, October 26, earnings announcement, Ford forecasted adjusted earnings before income and taxes of $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion for Q3. Ford said parts costs would be $1 billion higher than expected because of inflation and parts shortages. Those shortages caused up to 45,000 vehicles,…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford’s Q2 2022 U.S. Market Performance
07/26/2022
Ford outperformed the U.S. market in sales for the second quarter. How that translates into quarterly earnings will be revealed with the automaker posts financial results after the stock market closes on Wednesday, July 27. Ford’s U.S. vehicle sales surged in June to close the quarter on a positive note when the industry was down, mainly because its inventories vastly improved from the year before when…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford’s Q1 2022 U.S. Market Performance
04/27/2022
A day after celebrating the launch of the all-electric F-150 Lightning, the most important new product from Ford in a lifetime according to Chairman Bill Ford, the company is scheduled to post first-quarter 2022 financial results. The numbers will be released after the stock market closes on Wednesday, April 27. Supply-chain disruptions slowed Ford’s vehicle production last quarter, but higher prices and lower incentives likely helped…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford’s Q4 2021 U.S. Market Performance
02/01/2022
Ford reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 financial results after the stock market closes on Thursday, Feb. 3. Analysts speculate that Ford may surprise again with better-than-expected results. Every unit of Ford, from Ford Credit to international operations to North America, likely registered improvement to close out 2021. Ford, in fact, raised its guidance for the full year to earnings of $10.5 billion to $11.5 billion. In…
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Cox Automotive Analysis: Ford’s Q3 2021 U.S. Market Performance
10/26/2021
Ford reports third-quarter 2021 financial results after the stock market closes on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The results will show the continued impact of the production disruptions caused by the global computer chip shortage. Ford was hit early by the chip crisis. The automaker had to partially build vehicles, including its all-important F-150 pickup truck, and park them as they waited for chip orders. Ford curtailed production…
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