Retail Shrugs-Off Ford’s Huge Earnings Miss: But Wall Street Hammers The Stock

Shares of Ford Motor Co fell over 13% during Thursday’s pre-market session after the company’s second quarter earnings came in lower than Street expectations. Earnings per share came in at $0.47 compared to a Street expectation of $0.68. Net income dropped nearly 5% year-over-year (YoY) to $1.83 billion.

However, revenue came in at $47.81 billion, higher than a Street estimate of $44.88 billion. 
Despite the disappointing earnings, retail sentiment trended in the extremely bullish territory (81/100), possibly based on expectations of a comeback.

Ford pointed out that profitability was affected by an increase in warranty reserves but efforts to lift the quality of new products are starting to pay off.

The auto-maker said expectations for the full-year 2024 adjusted earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) remained unchanged at $10 billion to $12 billion. Investors, however, were expecting the company to raise its guidance.

Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said that the company’s restructuring plan Ford+ is on track. The company, meanwhile, declared a third-quarter regular dividend of $0.15 per share, payable September 3 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 7.

From a segmental basis, the company’s traditional business Ford Blue reported an EBIT of $1.17 billion while its commercial business Ford Pro reported an EBIT of $2.56 billion. The firm stated that demand by commercial customers for Super Duty trucks and Transit commercial vans is outstripping production capacity.

The Ford Model e reported an EBIT loss of $1.14 billion amid ongoing industry-wide pricing pressure on first-generation electric vehicles and lower wholesales. These factors more than offset about $400 million in year-over-year cost reductions in the segment, the company said. An anticipated full-year loss of $5 billion to $5.50 billion for Ford Model e is unchanged, with continued pricing pressure and investments in next-generation electric vehicles, it added.

The stock is currently trading at a price-to-earnings of 14.09. Stocktwits users, meanwhile, are talking about the cheap valuation of the stock. One user named “JDR1983” believes the stock deserves a much higher multiple than its current valuation.

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