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Ford Stock Upgraded By Barclays Due To EV Strategy, VW Alliance

Until recently, Wall Street viewed Ford as a legacy automaker struggling to redefine itself amidst an industrywide push away from internal combustion engines. Now, it seems that sentiment has shifted significantly, as British financial services company, Barclays, has upgraded Ford stock to “overweight” status based on its EV strategy and its ties with Volkswagen.

Previously, Barclays labeled Ford stock as “equal weight,” meaning its valuation was determined to perform similarly to the industry average. With the new rating, the company expects Ford share value to outperform the valuations of stocks of other automakers, and is expecting the price of Ford shares to jump to $16 per share. Previously, the company estimated that Ford stock would reach $9 per share, but that value was exceeded in mid-January. Ford stock opened at $12.85 per share on Friday, March 19th, 2021.

Brian Johnson, an analyst at Barclays, specifically cited Ford Europe and the recent tie-up between The Blue Oval and VW as the two main reasons why the company decided to upgrade its outlook on the value of Ford shares going forward. Presumably, Ford’s recent announcements that it will double its financial outlay towards electrification and use those resources to mostly shift its European operations away from internal combustion by 2027 were the main factors that swayed Barclays towards Ford.

Ford will indeed get a major assist from VW, as the German automaker is sharing its MEB electric vehicle architecture with The Blue Oval for two small electric cars, for a total of 600,000 EV units in Europe. In turn, Ford is supplying VW with a mid-size pickup based on the next-generation Ford Ranger and a large van based on the next-generation Ford Transit. Additionally, the two are collaborating on small van development, although the next-gen Ford Transit Connect will apparently utilize the Ford C2 platform when it starts production at the Ford Hermosillo Assembly plant in the future.

But Ford’s EV efforts have already bore fruit in the form of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E, which is already stealing market share from Tesla and winning over buyers and critics. The upcoming Ford E-Transit and Ford F-150 Electric should also help assuage Wall Street’s concerns about the viability of Ford in a post-internal combustion era, as should CEO Jim Farley’s recent statements about EV production. Overall, it seems like the financial sector is finally seeing the light that is The Blue Oval, a shift that may prove helpful to Ford stock holders and investors in the coming months.

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Ed owns a 1986 Ford Taurus LX, and he routinely daydreams about buying another one, a fantasy that may someday become a reality.

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Comments

  1. You Stated Mustang E Mach take part of the Tesla market. The Mustang Mach E is not for sale since 18 months. In Europa also not any is delivered in België Netherlands Germany. Is big Joke this car

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  2. Today there are 39.680 Teslas sold in the Netherlands and 0 Mustang E First Edition Mustang E is not deliver any Mustang E You can order and paid for reservation what 2000 plus customers did in 2020 and untill today never received any Mustang E

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  3. The Mustang Mach-E is a really great deal. If the production runs regularly in the near time you will see many of this on the streets, also in the Netherlands. Addinional, the Mustang Mach-E is just one model in the big Ford model range. How many Ford were sold in the same time, Tesla sold this 39.680 units????? 😉 Let´s see the numbers in a year from now! …… Or are you waiting for your ordered Mustang Mach-E impatiently?

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  4. We order 6 First Edition Mustang E in 01/2020 paid on 6 Cars 20.000.00 euro for reservation we never get the Cars Promished end of 2020 Then januari 2021 etc etc. Terrible service.
    We order 2 Teslas take 48 hours delivery in Port Amsterdam with title Whas big in the newspapers

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    1. Don’t feel “left out”, look at the ford bronco (not the BS-bronco sport) history, I’m guessing a lot of people putting up $100 to get a place in line, so they could order a bronco in 2020, will not be able to get their order until 2022. Plus, they can expect a price increase!! The mexican made electric mustang sounds good, but you may have dodged a bullet, with all the ford recalls-you may want to wait until all the problems are actually ID’d and “fixed”.

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