CluenexFord Motor Company F
Ford Motor Company scores weak on business quality (2.1 of 10). Here is why, in plain words, and what our sealed record shows.
Why it matters
- What Ford Motor Company does
Ford designs, builds, and sells cars, trucks, and SUVs through a global dealer network, making money on vehicle sales, financing, and commercial fleet services.
- What it does best
Ford dominates high-margin commercial fleets and internal combustion trucks, generating $7.3B in free cash flow despite a grim bottom line. This scale is difficult to replicate, though peers like GM post similar gross margins around 6%.
- The main risk
EV sales are plunging hard across the portfolio, dragging down overall margins and threatening the heavy capital investments poured into the electric vehicle division.
Quality, check by check
Scored against its own industry, from company filings.
Operating margins sit at -3.7% and ROE is -18.9%, driven by high warranty and restructuring costs that compress margins further as the company scales its operations.
A massive dealer and service network locks in commercial fleet operators, though a gross margin in the bottom decile of its sector limits true pricing power.
Revenue grew 1.2% to $187.9B, but overall top-line expansion remains sluggish as fading EV demand offsets steady commercial truck volume.
Debt-to-equity sits at 4.5x with negative interest coverage, leaving the balance sheet strained despite $38.4B in cash and $7.3B in free cash flow. This financial profile is softening fast.
Insiders
Executives and directors, from SEC Form 4 filings we read ourselves. Open market trades only; grants, option exercises and pre-planned sales left out.
No open market buys or unplanned sales by executives or directors.
Our sealed record on F
Verdicts appear here 30 days after we publish them; members see today's. Each one is in the nightly ledger, fingerprinted the night it was made.
The first sealed verdicts appear here on Oct 11, 2026.
Questions
Ford Motor Company scores weak on the Cluenex quality check (2.1 of 10), measured against its own industry. Profitability is weak, moat weak, growth slow and financial health weak.
In the last 90 days of SEC Form 4 filings: No open market buys or unplanned sales by executives or directors.
Oct 28, 2026, after the close.
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