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Ford · February 2018
FConsumer goods2-year horizonMedium
Imagine you already own shares of this company.
Everything on this page is limited to information available on February 12, 2018.
The situation
- Date
- February 12, 2018
- You own
- Shares of Ford
- Period
- 2 years, until February 2020
Decide what to do with your shares.
The company at the time
Ford is one of the largest carmakers in the world, and its trucks and SUVs, especially the F-Series pickup, bring in most of its profit. It also owns Ford Credit, which lends money to people buying Ford vehicles; that lending is why the company carries so much debt. Its 2017 profit had been helped by a one-time benefit from the U.S. tax reform. A new CEO had taken over in 2017 and promised to cut costs and make the company more efficient, and Ford was paying a large dividend, with an extra payment on top of the regular one.
Information available at the time
The same numbers as on company pages, as they had been reported by February 12, 2018. Sector medians aren't shown because StockLab doesn't have them as they stood back then.
Revenue, growth, profit and cash flow are for fiscal year 2017 (ended December 2017), the latest full year in an annual report filed by then; cash and debt come from the latest report (its date is on the card). Results announced after that aren't in these cards yet, even if the story above mentions them, so their numbers can differ.
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$10.70
Close on Feb 12, 2018
$42.8B
5-year trends
Annual figures, fiscal years 2013-2017.
Stock price
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What would you do?
No virtual money and no score. After you choose, you'll see what happened and a review of the reasoning.