Ford Motor Co (F) Volatility Spurs A Quest For Clarity

Currently, there are 4.13B common shares owned by the public and among those 3.89B shares have been available to trade.

The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 3.55% and 15.76% over the past three months. F shares are trading 10.84% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -11.79% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $8.44 and touched a high of $14.62 over the same period. F has an average intraday trading volume of 127.52 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 5.58%, 8.69%, and 6.37% respectively.

Institutional ownership of Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F) shares accounts for 60.69% of the company’s 4.13B shares outstanding.

It has a market capitalization of $42.95B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.51. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 8.65, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.25. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.06% over the week and 2.47% over the month.

Analysts forecast that Ford Motor Co (F) will achieve an EPS of 0.31 for the current quarter, 0.36 for the next quarter and 1.39 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.24 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.24. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.47 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -43.28%, and 26.41% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of -5.79% over the next five years, compared to 162.64% over the past 5-year period.

Citigroup coverage for the Ford Motor Co (F) stock in a research note released on April 23, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $10. JP Morgan on their part issued Overweight rating on March 27, 2025.

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