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Ford and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
Analysts always tell you what WAS hot stocks after they had gone up 800% or so . They never tell what is now climbing like crazy! Where are they? ReplyFord and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
Analysts never tell you what is hot stocks today? NEVER!! They dont know .. ReplyFord and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
forget the analysts.think for yourself.if the analysts were really good they would not have to bother with the dribble they spout. they wouls all be named buffett. ReplyFord and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
If it wasn't for analyst and car reviewers the American car companies wouldn't be quite as bad as it is for the American companies. It always seems that reviewers always favors the imports and bashes the American companies. The price of oil is driven by the analyst. If the analyst says that oil is going to be $200 a barrel, then the oil companies try to make that happen out of their own greed. Come on analyst, get a life and put some positive information out there instead of being so negative all the time on American owned companies. ReplyFord and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
let's not confuse "analysis" with a table of numbers. "data" and "insight" are entirely different things.4,12,567,12.76182
5,15,123,1.5329
So, draw your own conclusions ... Reply
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Ford and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
Does your analysis correct for captive finance companies (e.g. GMAC?) These captive finance units may show massive debt, but it is collateralized against physical assets. The Big 3 have more mature captive finance units than the other manufacturers. ReplyFord and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
Just look at the short covering today(7-14-2008)with freddie and fannie.The shorts are getting there heads handed to them on a silver platter.The same will happen with the GM shorts. ReplyFord and GM Living on Borrowed Time [view article]
You win the prize. Most pointless article on alpha ... and that, my friend, is SAYING something! Congratulations on reading the columns and rows from yahoo finance: balance sheet on companies. 1) your math stinks (check your table again) 2) using your favorite source, check "other liabilities" for GM vs F. Congratulations on your 15 minutes. It just ran out. ReplyBig Three Automakers: Recapitalization or Bankruptcy? [view article]
You need to realize that when large corportations like GM or Ford stumble that who pays, you guessed it, the middle class. From Blue collar to White collar. You need to realize that sure the Union has faults and needs to get agrip but in the end it has created a working middle class with health care. If these jobs go away the burden will fall on society. Reducing labor from $28/hr to $12 hr will only give the CEO's more to spend on management. ReplyChallenge for Ford and GM: To Stay in Business [view article]
Why is Big Brother always trying to regulate what the car makers do. I can't remember the last time that our government mandated that Dominos sell at least 50% pepperoni pizzas or that Nordstroms sell all dress shirts for 1/2 off. Give it a rest. Let the consumers drive the market. Last time I checked this was the US and we're supposed to be a FREE market, not a government over-regulated market [can you say "China"]. ReplyTiedeman
Citigroup Analyst Cuts Auto Companies' Price Targets [view article]
AXL may be the worst managed company in America. Giving million dollar executive bonuses at this time is pathetic. ReplyTiedeman
General Motors: General Malaise [view article]
GM is dominating in China. All of their smaller cars in the US are sold out. Come out to Texas, we will NEVER give up GM Trucks in TEXAS! ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
Right now American consumers don't care if a GM car gets JD Powers awards for quality coming out of the wazoo. Right now they care about fuel economy, and that's where the Japanese cars are trouncing GM.Chevy's commercials say they have a line up with more cars that get 30mpg than other makers, but that's misleading. 30mpg HIGHWAY only. If you factor in city mileage, even the Chevy Aveo (which is made by Daewoo in Korea by the way, not here in the U.S.) gets only 25mpg.
Meanwhile, Toyota has Yarises and Corollas that can get 30mpg COMBINED, ditto Honda with their Civics and Fits.
Why should the American consumer keep buying GM cars if they can't match the fuel economy of foreign cars to prop them up so GM has no incentive to change? That's corporate socialism at its very worst.
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Sell and Short Recommendations for a Bearish Market [view article]
Why not just use ETF's to short a given index? ReplyGeneral Motors: General Malaise [view article]
hoffman23, you're ignoring the facts! Check out the financials for GM: it's pretty clear that the company is in serious trouble.I don't accept that GM reacts quickly to change; at least, I don't see any evidence to support the claim.
The quality argument is a myth. For example, if you check out the JD Power website, you'll see that the big three receive the first place ranking in dependability in only five out of nineteen categories. Read the survey results from Consumers Union and you'll see that the Big Three perform much worse. The quality may have improved, but it's still not on par with competitors.
For the record, Peter Lynch may have advocated buying what you know but he insisted on looking at the financials of companies too.
On July 9, hoffman23 wrote:
When does this stupidity end? GM has a very bright future. First look at the overseas business. It's booming!!!! Next, look at how quickly this company is reacting to the current dramatic change in the market. As a veteran of 30 years in this industry, GM used to take YEARS to react. Now they can change within weeks. And PLEASE stop lumping GM and Ford together. The situations are completely different. FORD has put up the entire company including the Blue Oval as collateral on its loans!!!! GM will survive and eventually prosper. Ford and Chrysler are quite a different story. Why don't you write about Toyota and their
Tundra-Texas factory fiasco. How about how much the Europeans are losing money on their American sales due to the crappy dollar? If you went out into the marketplace and compared the quality of the various vehicles, you would have a very different tune. Try the Peter Lynch theory of actually getting out of the ivory tower and going among the masses. It will open your eyes!!! Reply