Thursday, April 5, 2012

US Big Motor Vehicle Corps 2011 Annual Earnings: The Miraculous Resurrection of the Auto Industry Continues Under Obama

For the five years from 1995 to 1999, Ford ranked #6 and General Motors #7 in Fortune's annual rankings of the highest after-tax profits of US Corporations.

Ford had total after-tax profits for the five years from 1995 to 1999 of $29 bil, even excluding its $16 bil gain from spinning off The Associates.

And General Motors registered total after-tax profits for those same five years of $28 bil.

So it wasn't just the start of the Internet, but also the auto industry, which were major players in making the US economy so robust in its go-go years in the last half of the 1990's.


How times had changed by 2009.  General Motors had a Core Pretax Loss of $24.5 bil, Chrysler a Loss of $8.1 bil, and Ford a Loss of $2.1 bil.

Enter the Obama Administration.

Despite opposition from nearly all Republicans in the US Congress, the Obama Administration took bold actions to revive the considered-for-dead US auto industry.

Objectively, how did they do?  By any measure, a clearly miraculous rescue, which continued in 2011.

There are 28 US Motor Vehicle and Parts Corps with Pretax Income or Pretax Loss of more than $100 mil in any of the most recent three years.  I am including both Delphi Automotive plc, a Jersey corporation, and Autoliv, a Swedish Corp, because they both have such substantial operations in the US.

These 28 Big US Motor Vehicle and Parts Corps registered a Total Pretax Loss of $36.4 bil in 2009.  In 2010, these same 28 Corps generated Total Pretax Income of $20.7 bil.  Yeah, that's an almost unbelievable $57.1 bil Profit turnaround in just one year.

So, how did they do in 2011?  Just great.

In 2011, these same 28 Corps generated Total Pretax Income of $27.8 bil, an increase of a robust 34% over 2010.

How can a reasonable person vote for Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, who still boldly, stubbornly, close-mindedly, and even cockily states that the Obama Administration's rescue of the Auto Industy was a very bad idea?

I suggest that it wouldn't be good for the US to have as its President someone who is so out of touch with reality.

In deriving Pretax Income, I start with Pretax Income under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and then exclude several clearly unusual very large items relative to Pretax Income, such as Intangible Asset Impairments, Gains/Losses on Debt Retirements, and Reorganization Gains/Losses.

Below here is the Pretax Income (PTI) or Pretax Loss (PTL) of these 28 US Big Motor Vehicle and Parts Corps for each of the most recent three years.





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PTI PTI

1 Year 2 Year

PTI(L) PTI(L) PTI(L) % %

2011 2010 2009 Change Change
mils $s mils $s mils $s

Motor Vehicle and Parts




Ford Motor 8,681 7,993 (2,067) 9% 520%
GM 7,253 5,541 (24,473) 31% 130%
Paccar 1,507 660 109 128% 1283%
Delphi Automotive 1,506 944 (1,129) 60% 233%
TRW Automotive 1,188 1,041 140 14% 749%
Chrysler 932 (513) (8,095) 282% 112%
Autoliv 828 806 6 3% 13700%
Harley Davidson 793 475 207 67% 283%
Borg Warner 766 478 18 60% 4156%
GoodyearTire&Rubber 618 (65) (357) 1051% 273%
Lear 616 449 (229) 37% 369%
Oshkosh 417 1,212 12 -66% 3375%
WABCO Holdings 405 223 (28) 82% 1546%
Visteon 371 318 169 17% 120%
Navistar 320 290 359 10% -11%
Dana Holding 296 35 (298) 746% 199%
Tenneco 271 132 (41) 105% 761%
Gentex 244 203 96 20% 154%
Federal Mogul 241 179 (55) 35% 538%
Clarcor 181 143 106 27% 71%
Meritor 159 76 (52) 109% 406%
Nacco Industries 157 116 19 35% 726%
Thor Industries 153 171 33 -11% 364%
American Axle 138 119 (297) 16% 146%
Cooper Tire 134 160 116 -16% 16%
Accuride (7) (56) (122) 88% 94%
Terex Corp (83) (238) (524) 65% 84%
Tesla Motors (254) (154) (56) -65% -354%




Total all 28 27,831 20,738 (36,433) 34% 176%