General Motors Co Stock Hold Recommendation Reiterated (GM)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- General Motors (NYSE:GM) has been reiterated by TheStreet Ratings as a hold with a ratings score of C. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, attractive valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including feeble growth in the company's earnings per share, deteriorating net income and poor profit margins.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

• Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 9.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 4.3%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
• The current debt-to-equity ratio, 0.36, is low and is below the industry average, implying that there has been successful management of debt levels. Although the company had a strong debt-to-equity ratio, its quick ratio of 0.86 is somewhat weak and could be cause for future problems.
• GENERAL MOTORS CO has exprienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share have declined over the last two years. We anticipate that this should continue in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, GENERAL MOTORS CO reported lower earnings of $4.62 versus $8.13 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 24.0% in earnings ($3.51 versus $4.62).
• The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Automobiles industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 60.9% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $3,366.00 million to $1,315.00 million.

General Motors Company (GM) designs, manufactures, and markets cars, crossovers, trucks, and automobile parts worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 6.4, equal to the average automotive industry P/E ratioand below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. General has a market cap of $34.14 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector and automotive industry. Shares are up 7.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.

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--Written by a member of TheStreet Ratings Staff.

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