Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) price on current trading day, fall -0.69% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $10.10.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $10.17, moving within a range at $9.99 and $10.11. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.607 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 6.91. Turning to its 52-week performance, $14.62 and $8.96 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, F moved 8.14% over the past month.
Ford Motor Co’s market cap currently stands at around $40.03 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-04. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.60, with its dividend yield at 5.94%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 36.93B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 32.68B and 41.05B respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -7.42% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 169.73B, representing a -1.72% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that F is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
25 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 7 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 15 recommend F as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 3 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
F’s current price about 4.84% and 4.77% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 60.39, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.75% and 3.03% in the 30-day chart. Further, Ford Motor Co (F) has a beta value of 1.43, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.29. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $11, forecast between a low of $10 and high of $14. Looking at the price targets, the low is 0.99% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -38.61%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -8.91% jump to $11 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 134.97 over the past 10 days and 88.77 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 3.89 billion shares.
The 2.10% of Ford Motor Co’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 57.62% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 144.77 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 1.65. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Ford Motor Co (F) stood at 404.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 117.58 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.66% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the F stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
