Uncovering the Hidden Gems of General Motors Company (GM)

By Blake Campbell • Tuesday, January 30 15:37 • Permanent Link

With gains of 8.0%, General Motors Company was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $38.22 and have logged a -0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

General Motors Company has moved -10.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 20.9%
GM has an average analyst rating of buy and is -11.14% away from its mean target price of $43.01 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $7.12
General Motors Company has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 5.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $7.26 and its forward P/E ratio is 5.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 0.72 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
General Motors Company is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.96 and an average P/B of 4.24
GM has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -2.2% and gross profit margins of 0.1%
The company has a free cash flow of $11.0 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
General Motors Company designs, builds, and sells trucks, crossovers, cars, and automobile parts; and provide software-enabled services and subscriptions worldwide. The company operates through GM North America, GM International, Cruise, and GM Financial segments. It markets its vehicles primarily under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Baojun, and Wuling brand names. The company also sells trucks, crossovers, cars, and automobile parts through retail dealers, and distributors and dealers, as well as to fleet customers, including daily rental car companies, commercial fleet customers, leasing companies, and governments. In addition, it offers range of after-sale services through dealer network, such as maintenance, light repairs, collision repairs, vehicle accessories, and extended service warranties; and safety and security services for retail and fleet customers, including automatic crash response, emergency services, roadside assistance, crisis assist, stolen vehicle assistance, and turn-by-turn navigation. Further, the company provides connected services comprising mobile applications for owners to remotely control their vehicles and electric vehicle owners to locate charging stations, on-demand vehicle diagnostics, GM Smart Driver, Amazon Alexa in-vehicle voice, Google's Voice Assistant, navigation and app ecosystem, connected navigation, SiriusXM with 360L, and 4G LTE wireless connectivity. Additionally, the company provides automotive financing and insurance services; and software-enabled services and subscriptions. General Motors Company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

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