Last checked at 26 Oct 2010 12:57
| Contact: | Media: John Stoll 1.313.594.1106 jstoll1@ford.com | Equity Investment Community: Larry Heck 1.313.594.0613 fordir@ford.com | Fixed Income Investment Community: Shawn Ryan 1.313.621.0881 fixedinc@ford.com | Shareholder Inquiries: 1.800.555.5259 or 1.313.845.8540 stockinf@ford.com |
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FORD POSTS THIRD QUARTER 2010 NET INCOME OF $1.7 BILLION;
ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL DEBT REDUCTION ACTIONS+
·; Ford reports third quarter net income of $1.7 billion, or 43 cents per share, a $690 million improvement from third quarter 2009. Pre-tax operating profit totaled $2.1 billion, or 48 cents per share, a $1.1 billion improvement from third quarter 2009++
·; Ford is announcing further actions to reduce Automotive debt and strengthen its balance sheet, including further paying down its revolving credit line by $2 billion; plans to use cash to fully prepay the remaining $3.6 billion of debt owed to the VEBA retiree health care trust; and conversion offers on two convertible debt securities
·; Ford now expects its Automotive cash to be about equal to its debt by year end, earlier than previously expected. This will be an improvement of $8 billion to $9 billion from the end of last year
·; Ford ended the quarter with $23.8 billion of Automotive gross cash and total liquidity of $29.4 billion. Automotive operating-related cash flow was $900 million positive
·; Revenue for the quarter totaled $29 billion, a decline of $1.3 billion from third quarter 2009; excluding Volvo revenue from 2009, revenue increased $1.7 billion ++
·; Ford Automotive operations posted a third quarter pre-tax operating profit of $1.3 billion, a $953 million improvement from third quarter 2009++
·; Ford North America reported third quarter pre-tax operating profit of $1.6 billion, a $1.3 billion improvement from third quarter 2009
·; Ford Credit reported third quarter pre-tax operating profit of $766 million, an $89 million improvement from third quarter 2009, and provided Ford with a $1 billion distribution during the quarter
·; Ford will deliver solid profits in 2010 with positive Automotive operating-related cash flow, and continued improvement in 2011
Click on, or paste the following link into your web browser, to view the associated PDF document.
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/0227V_1-2010-10-26.pdf