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Ford Faces a Profitability Threat It Hasn't Seen Since the 2008 Financial Crisis

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Ford Faces a Profitability Threat It Hasn't Seen Since the 2008 Financial Crisis Key Points Ford Credit is one of the automaker's most profitable units…
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  • Roughly 228,000 Tesla EVs were leased last year, nearly 102,000 EV leases for General Motors, and a little over 52,000 EV leases for Ford

    60% confidence
  • Using the $10,000 figure, that would be an industrywide loss of about $8 billion for expected models coming off lease in 2028

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  • EVs expected to make up 15% of off-lease used vehicles by the end of 2026, compared to only 7.7% during the first quarter

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  • Stock Advisor's total average return is 914% compared to 184% for the S&P 500

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  • Ford Motor Company was not among the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now

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  • Off-lease EV volume will peak in 2028 with nearly 800,000 EVs flooding the market

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  • Industry experts are expecting the resale value of off-lease EVs will check in around $10,000 less than automaker finance entities projected, and could range anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 less

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  • Ford Credit typically generates only about 5% of revenue any given year but provides 15% to 20%, sometimes more, of the company's profits

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Ford Motor Company
Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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