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Ford Motor Company

FNYSEAutomobile ManufacturersWILMINGTON, US-DE, USLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Russell 1000

What Ford Motor Company is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: $190 billion, up 3.8% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: $9.55 billion, up 2.6% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to March 31, 2026: $9.37 billion, up 11% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $49.7 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 28, 2026): sentiment 0.60 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.70 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 6 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 1 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed February 11, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net buyers in Q2 2026: $0.1 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 1,747 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+34 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 323 (382 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Risk events (12 months): 113 — latest NHTSA vehicle recall, Oct 6, 2026 →

What Ford Motor Company is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Withheld: 50% of the evidence is readable at this date (needs 60%).

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Ford Motor Company's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$0.7B

  • Due within a year $0.0B
  • Longer term $0.7B
  • Default point $0.4B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Dec 31, 2020 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

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Ford Motor Company: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$9.6BData to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$189.9BData to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

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Ford Motor Company: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.00BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Mar 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

8.2Data to Dec 2017
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

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Ford Motor Company: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

6.0Data 23 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.60Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Ford Motor Company: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.70Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Ford Motor Company: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Feb 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

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Ford Motor Company: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

323.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
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Ford Motor Company: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

$0.2MData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Ford Motor Company: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

1,747Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (AVOQ, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  2. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
  3. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (FORD MOTOR COMPANY)third_quarter 2026 · $1.2 million
  4. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  5. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (RESONANT TAX STRATEGIES, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  6. Oct 20, 2026Patent
  7. Oct 20, 2026Patent
  8. Oct 20, 2026Patent
  9. Oct 20, 2026Patent
  10. Oct 20, 2026Patent
  11. Oct 12, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (RYAN COSTELLO STRATEGIES)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  12. Oct 6, 2026Lobbying
  13. Oct 6, 2026Risk event
  14. Oct 6, 2026Risk event
  15. Oct 6, 2026Risk event
  16. Sep 24, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP)fourth_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
  17. Sep 22, 2026Risk event
  18. Sep 22, 2026Risk event
  19. Sep 22, 2026Risk event
  20. Sep 17, 2026Risk event
  21. Sep 9, 2026Risk event
  22. Sep 9, 2026Risk event
  23. Sep 9, 2026Risk event
  24. May 21, 20268-K
  25. May 19, 20268-K
  26. Apr 15, 20268-K
  27. Apr 15, 20268-K
  28. Feb 11, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  29. Dec 15, 20258-K
  30. Dec 12, 20258-K
  31. Jul 28, 20258-K
  32. May 13, 20258-K
  33. May 13, 20258-K
  34. Apr 17, 20258-K
  35. Feb 6, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  36. Feb 5, 20258-K
  37. Dec 16, 20248-K
  38. Nov 7, 20248-K
  39. Oct 31, 20248-K
  40. Feb 7, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 1 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
General Motors GM$170B$14.4BSep 30, 2026
Home Depot Inc. HD$169B$15.1BAug 2, 2026
Target Corp. TGT$108B$4.5BAug 1, 2026
Tesla Inc. TSLA$104B$5.8BJun 30, 2026
Lowe's Companies LOW$90.4B$7.0BJul 31, 2026
TJX Companies TJX$62.4B$5.9BAug 1, 2026
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN$776B−$11.6BJun 30, 2026
Nike Inc. NKE$45.9B$2.1BAug 31, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
37996
Wikidata
Q44294
SAM UEI
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SAM UEI
KTKSAXJJUM87

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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