About General Motors Company
General Motors Company designs, builds, and sells trucks, crossovers, cars, and automobile parts worldwide. It operates through GM North America, GM International, and GM Financial segments. The company markets its vehicles primarily under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Baojun, and Wuling brand names. In addition, it sells trucks, crossovers, cars, and automobile parts through retail dealers, distributors and dealers, as well as to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. Further, the company offers various range of after-sale services through dealer network, such as maintenance, light repairs, collision repairs, vehicle accessories, and extended service warranties. Additionally, it provides automotive financing; and software-enabled services and subscriptions. General Motors Company was founded in 1908 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
General Motors Company (GM) is a Consumer Cyclical company in the Auto Manufacturers industry with a market capitalisation of $77.4B. The stock trades at 38.22x trailing earnings and yields 0.84%.
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Auto Manufacturers
- Market cap
- $77.4B
- P/E ratio
- 38.22
- Forward P/E
- 5.77
- EPS (TTM)
- $2.24
- Revenue (TTM)
- $185.5B
- Free cash flow
- $21.9B
- Profit margin
- 1.1%
- Dividend yield
- 0.84%
- Beta
- 1.32
- Shares outstanding
- 904.5M
Financial health: Weak4.4/10
3 strengths, 4 concerns. Weakest points: return on equity, gross margin, net margin and 1 more.
- Current ratio: 1.17 (Watch, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover 1.17x short-term liabilities, against Graham's 1.5x floor. It has been broadly flat over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 3.2% (Concern, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 3.2% on shareholder equity, well short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 10.2% (Concern, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 10.2% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, well short of the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 1.1% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 1.1% of revenue into profit, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $17.6B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $17.6B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 1.9% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 1.9% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: -26.2% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed -26.2% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 0.30 (Strong, benchmark < 1) — At 0.30, the price looks cheap relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 29.5% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 29.5% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.