GM is sinking despite a fourth-quarter earnings beat
General Motors is down 4.59% at $35.14 after the company reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 earnings on Tuesday.
The automaker said fourth-quarter net income fell to $1.19 a share, factoring out one-time items, in part because of $500 million in foreign-exchange losses, and the company forecast that 2017 profits would be flat to slightly up from 2016.
The adjusted result beat analyst expectations of $1.17 a share.
GM forecast adjusted earnings per share for all of 2017 would range between $6.00 and $6.50 a share, compared with $6.12 a share for all of 2016.
A strong theme in GM's business for several years has been capital efficiency and the return of capital to shareholders - a theme that defined 2016.
The strong results for 2016 came on the back of strong sales, due in part to cheap gas and an improving economy.
"GM sold a record 10 million vehicles around the world, up 1.2% from 2015," the company said in a statement.
