November 26, 2018

For today's bulletin, we take a look at General Motors $GM and provide a link to download a copy of our latest stock report on the auto maker.

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GM Announces Massive Layoffs/Closures

General Motors Company (GM) is engaged in the designing, manufacturing and retailing of vehicles globally including passenger cars, crossover vehicles, and light trucks, sport utility vehicles, vans and other vehicles. Its business is organized into three geographically-based segments- General Motors North America (GMNA), General Motors International Operations (GMIO) and General Motors Europe (GME). General Motors Company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, the United States of America.

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Bad news for the auto industry today as General Motors announced a massive series of layoffs and plant closures. GM plans to layoff @14,000 of their 180,000 member work force and close five plants. These layoffs and closures will largely effect plants and workers in the car segment, rather than the more popular trucks and SUVs.

This is a key bit of info here as the auto maker is denying that trade wars and tariffs are the cause of these layoffs. GM plans to follow the lead of other manufacturers and will make far fewer cars in the coming years.They claim that the restructuring is designed to occur while the company is strong, rather than waiting for another downturn.

Also of note, GM and other manufacturers have received massive levels of taxpayer support over the past few years. They were "bailed out" by the Obama Adminstration during the Bush Recession and they also received @$500 million in tax breaks under the recent Trump tax cut plan--seems like they did not feel much gratitude!

Investors--as they so often do--reacted positively to the layoff news and GM shares jumped up in afternoon trading. However, one has to wonder if this strategy will payoff longer term. As climate change and its negative effects becomes more apparent, one would think that a product line focused almost exclusively on large trucks and SUVs would not be sustainable indefinitely.

VALUENGINE RECOMMENDATION: ValuEngine continues its HOLD recommendation on GENERAL MOTORS for 2018-11-23. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that GENERAL MOTORS has the probability to ROUGHLY MATCH average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Company Size but UNATTRACTIVE Earnings Growth Rate.

You can download a free copy of our summary report on General Motors Company (GM) from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast
	Target Price*	Expected Return
1-Month	35.79	-0.39%
3-Month	36.39	1.29%
6-Month	36.54	1.71%
1-Year	34.27	-4.62%
2-Year	46.87	30.45%
3-Year	54.96	52.96%

Valuation & Rankings
Valuation	4.69% overvalued	Valuation Rank(?)	29
1-M Forecast Return	-0.39%	1-M Forecast Return Rank	22
12-M Return	-18.88%	Momentum Rank(?)	25
Sharpe Ratio	-0.01	Sharpe Ratio Rank(?)	52
5-Y Avg Annual Return	-0.20%	5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank	52
Volatility	22.52%	Volatility Rank(?)	63
Expected EPS Growth	-12.10%	EPS Growth Rank(?)	13
Market Cap (billions)	57.73	Size Rank	99
Trailing P/E Ratio	5.43	Trailing P/E Rank(?)	97
Forward P/E Ratio	6.18	Forward P/E Ratio Rank	92
PEG Ratio	n/a	PEG Ratio Rank	n/a
Price/Sales	0.41	Price/Sales Rank(?)	85
Market/Book	1.64	Market/Book Rank(?)	57
Beta	1.26	Beta Rank	26
Alpha	-0.23	Alpha Rank	28

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Steve Hach
Senior Editor
ValuEngine.Com