General MotorsGMRevenue: is the business selling more than it used to?
$168.0B−2% YoYFY 2025
→Revenue reached $168.0B in 2025, compounding +5% a year since 2022 though the pace has cooled. The last twelve months (-2%) ran below that pace, so growth is slowing.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMNet income: how much of that revenue becomes profit?
$2.8B−53% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Net income was $2.8B in 2025, compounding -34% a year over three years. Earnings per share moved -57% over the last twelve months. Trailing twelve-month profit stands at $2.0B.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMHow fast is it growing, year by year?
-2.1%revenue growth, FY 2025
→Revenue grew -2% in 2025 against a five-year average of +10%. Earnings fell +53% on top of it.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMRevenue per share: is your slice growing as fast as the company?
$172.63revenue per share, FY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→Revenue per share reached $172.63 in 2025, compounding +20% a year against +5% for GM as a whole. Buybacks added roughly 15.1 points to your per-share result. Free cash flow per share stands at $18.05.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMFree cash flow: what is left in real cash after everything?
$17.6B+89% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Free cash flow was $17.6B in 2025, compounding +37% a year since 2022. That is the most cash the business has ever thrown off in a year. The trailing twelve months stand at $14.4B.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMHow much of every sales dollar ends up as free cash?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→10 cents of every sales dollar became free cash in 2025, up 6 points since 2022.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMWhat does staying competitive cost, per dollar of sales?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→The biggest claim on each sales dollar is capital spending, at 6% of revenue (research and development 5%, stock compensation 0%).
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMWhen sales grow, do profits grow faster?
→Operating profit outgrew revenue in only 2 of the last 5 years. Costs are growing roughly in step with the business, so scale isn't yet paying for itself.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMMargins: of every $1 of sales, how much survives each cost layer?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→Operating margin compressed 5 points to 2% since 2022. After everything, 2 cents of each sales dollar reaches net profit. GM doesn't tag a gross-profit line in its filings, so the chart starts at operating margin.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMWhat does it earn on the money it uses?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→ROE of 3% sits well above ROCE of 2%. A meaningful share of the shareholder return is manufactured with leverage rather than operations.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMWhat has the market paid for GM over time?
42.0xP/E today
◌ 2026 = at the latest close (2026-09-04), over the trailing twelve months; earlier years are annual averages
→At 42.0x earnings, the market is paying +542% more than GM's own 10-year median of 6.5x. Expectations are elevated, so more has to go right to justify the price. Today's multiple is the highest in the charted history.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMWhat cash return does the business throw off per dollar of market value?
18.7%FCF yield today
◌ 2026 = at the latest close (2026-09-04), over the trailing twelve months; earlier years are annual averages
→Every dollar of market value currently buys 18.7% of annual free cash flow, right at GM's 11-year median of 18.4%.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMCould it handle its debt if things went wrong?
◌ 2026 = the latest balance sheet (2026-06-30), not a fiscal year-end
→Debt isn't clearly tagged in GM's filings, so treat the balance sheet with extra care rather than assuming zero.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMIs the company's own capital growing?
→The company's own capital shrank from $64.3B in 2023 to $62.0B (-4%). Buybacks or losses are drawing the buffer down - the distinction matters.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMHow much goes back, and how much leaks out as stock comp?
→Shareholders received $6.0B in buybacks and $657M in dividends in 2025. Stock compensation issued $334M of new shares in the same year, offsetting 5% of that.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMHow fast is your ownership being diluted - or concentrated?
→The share count shrank 13.8% in 2025, averaging 12.4% a year over three years. Buybacks are concentrating your ownership: the same business, split fewer ways.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMIs the dividend cheque growing?
→The dividend per share reached $0.68 in 2025, compounding +8% a year since 2020.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMCan it afford the dividend?
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→The dividend consumed 24% of profit and 4% of free cash flow in 2025. That leaves room to keep paying through a weak year.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMDoes GM earn more on its capital than that capital costs?
→GM earns 1.5% on the capital it employs, below the 10% most investors treat as the cost of capital. It was 6.0% in 2022, so the trend is down, though the path has been bumpy.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMGM has issued or retired shares - did shareholders end up better off?
→GM has shrunk its share count -42% from 2011 to 2025, so each remaining share owns more of the business. Revenue per share is +92% over the same years.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
General MotorsGMAre the people running it buying or selling?
→Insiders sold $168M on the open market and bought nothing. Many sales are pre-scheduled diversification rather than a view on the price. A further 28 filings were grants, option exercises or tax withholding, which say nothing either way.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30