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Here's Why Ford Motor Stock Is a Buy Before May 5
Ford pays a generous dividend yield while trading at a modest P/E ratio.
The countdown has begun. In just five days, on Monday, May 5, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) will report its Q1 2025 earnings, and attempt to repeat the earnings beat that archrival General Motors turned in this past Tuesday. Can Ford do it?
It shouldn't be hard. According to analysts polled by Yahoo! Finance, Ford only needs to earn a bare $0.02 per share to meet expectations next week, a much lower bar than the $0.49 per share the company earned a year ago. Ford can even admit to a 10% drop in revenue, and not miss its mark. Analysts only expect the company to report sales of $35.8 billion.
When you consider that automotive rival GM reported both sales and earnings growth, but everyone's expecting Ford to drop on both top and bottom lines, the threshold for outperformance has been set, really, really low. Ford should be able to "Evel Knievel" these forecasts with three wheels tied behind its back.
