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07-24-2014, 12:51 PM
Filed under: Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/), Earnings/Financials (http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/)
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While its crosstown competitors at General Motors (http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/) are smarting over a drastic drop in net income to $200 million (http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/24/gm-quarterly-earnings-plunge-recall-costs/#aol-comments) in the second quarter, Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) has reason to celebrate. The Blue Oval has announced its own Q2 financial results, including a growing net income of $1.3 billion, a $78 million increase over last year. Pretax profits for the company reached $2.6 billion, up $44 million from 2013, but total revenue dropped slightly to $37.4 billion, down from $37.9 billion. Profits per share before one-time charges totaled 40 cents per share, beating Wall Street analysts' expectations of 36 cents a share.

Regionally, the Blue Oval performed strongly, as well. North America posted a record quarterly pre-tax profit of $2.4 billion, a $119 million increase. Europe also showed signs of turn around with its first profit in three years of $14 million after a loss of $306 million in Q2 2013. Ford is actually predicting profitability in the troubled region in 2015. Asia Pacific operations also performed well with $159 million in profits, up $29 million from last year. The only region where the business posted a loss was South America.

According to Automotive News (http://www.autonews.com/article/20140724/OEM01/140729937/ford-q2-earnings-rise-on-n-a-record-first-european-profit-in-3-years), Ford also announced more precise plans about the changeover to build the aluminum-intensive 2015 F-150 (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/f-150/). In August, the Dearborn plant will shutdown for eight weeks to retool and its Kansas City plant will do the same next year.

For the end of the year, Ford predicts it's on track to meet its pretax goal of a profit between $7 and $8 billion. You can read the entire financial announcement in PDF format, here (https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America/US/2014/07/24/2qfinancials.pdf).Ford books $2.6B pretax quarterly profit (http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/24/ford-quarterly-profits-2-point-6-billion/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.mnfords.com/rss-term-of-use/).
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