QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Auto Manufacturing
General Motors Company GM
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 3% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, 9% over its Market Value. No fair value estimate for now: the model’s result is too extreme to stand behind.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- $79.97price +9%
- Off 52-wk high
- −3%
- Risk vs market
- Above marketbeta 1.12
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $87.40
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$66.87−23.5%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 20$79.97−8.5%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$87.40you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$90.30+3.3%
Fair value estimate
Estimate unreliable for GM: the model gives 242% above the price, more than we can stand behind (usually peak-cycle cash flow, heavy debt, or cash flows that include customer or loan balances). We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, GM’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 16% a year for five years; our estimate uses 6%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much GM moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings more than the market, and its own price swings are 2.6× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 1.12
- Volatility
- 33% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.43
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.31
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 18.6% (price / FCF 5.4×): $14.4B of free cash in the last 12 months.
Cash returnsShare count down 8.0% in a year: $7.8B of buybacks over 12 months.
ValuationP/E of 20.0× vs a 27.5× median for the 130 Industrials companies we cover.
ValuationPrice / book of 1.2×, below the 4.4× median for the 134 Industrials companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 49% to $3.27 in FY2025.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 1.6% in FY2025 from 5.4% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 10 points in two fiscal years, to 5% in FY2025.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; net debt 5.6× EBITDA (limit 3×).
ValuationTrades 9.3% above its Market Value of $79.97, the average price paid since the Oct 20 filing.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on General Motors Company in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Auto Manufacturing
All fundamentals
P/E 20.0 · FCF yield 18.6% · ROE 6%
Valuation
- P/E
- 20.0×Industrials median 27.5×
- Price / FCF
- 5.4×
- FCF yield
- 18.6%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 0.41×
- Price / book
- 1.23×
- Market cap
- $77.5Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $187B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- −0.3%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +5.7%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $4.57
- EPS growth, last FY
- −48.7%
- Net income, 12 months
- $3.9B
- Net income growth
- −19%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 2.3%
- Net margin
- 2.1%
- FCF margin
- 7.7%
- Return on equity
- 6%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $27.8B
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $14.4B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- −3%
- Dividend yield
- 1.53%$1.2B paid
- Payout ratio
- 31%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $7.8B10.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −8.0%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From General Motors Company’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
MV $79.97 · FCF value $49.87
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 62 · 5 days +15.1%
The business
FCF $1.6B · Sales +3%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$1.6B
- Free-cash-flow yield2.3%
- Free-cash-flow margin1%
- Gross margin7%
- Operating margin2%
- Return on invested capital2%
- Return on equity6%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+3%
- Net debt / EBITDA5.6×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
GM is outside our quality screen
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