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Ford Says It Will Take $1.7 Billion Hit To Q4 2023 Finances

By most accounts, Ford enjoyed a pretty successful 2023, ending the year on a high note by setting its own personal EV sales record and also posting an overall sales increase in Q4 to boot. However, as Ford Authority previously reported, a six-week-long strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW) ended with a new agreement that Ford says cut a whopping $1.3 billion of its bottom line, thanks to a multitude of investments, pay increases, and even lump sum retirement offers. Even though FoMoCo previously stated that it plans to cover those costs by reducing inefficiencies in its operations, the automaker is now warning that it will take a rather substantial hit to its Q4 2023 finances anyway, according to Reuters.

2023 Ford Super Duty Production Kentucky Truck Plant - Exterior 001 - Front

Ford announced that it expects to record a pre-tax re-measurement loss of about $1.7 billion in the last quarter of the year, losses it’s blaming on post-retirement benefits and employee pensions, specifically. On an after-tax basis, this loss is expected to lower the automaker’s net income by around $1.3 billion, as previously stated.

The Blue Oval is also pointing to lower discount rates from a year ago as a contributing factor to this loss, which was discovered after a measurement loss, or something that occurs after a company reevaluates the value of its foreign currencies or long-term assets.

2023 Ford Super Duty Production Kentucky Truck Plant - Exterior 002 - Front Three Quarters

Following the conclusion of the UAW strike – which halted production at multiple Blue Oval facilities for weeks – Ford CFO John Lawler said that “the strike had an EBIT impact of roughly $100 million. And so far, the strike has trimmed about 80,000 units from our plan. This would reduce 2023 EBIT by roughly $1.3 billion” – a loss that clearly carried over into the end of the year, even though the strike officially ended in late October.

We’ll have more on the state of Ford’s finances soon, so be sure and subscribe to Ford Authority for 24/7 Ford news coverage.

Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.

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  1. A couple good places to start on the road back to good times. 1. Bring back cars. We don’t want our golf clubs and luggage out in the open. I’ve loved the 4 Fusions I’ve had over the past 10 years or so. And the Taureses before that. 2. Give us hybrids. We like them. Let somebody else do the research and take the pain of developing all-electric cars. Take our money and sell us what we want and need now. When electrics become truly practical and affordable you’ll have lots of time to ramp up production.

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  2. Complete b.s. the pensions are veba for blue collar, white collar is outsourced for payment. They lost a ton of money (hiding) on their ev endeavor and have GUTTED the engineers whom actuality did the work.
    Sink in your swamp due to NO forward thinking nor taking care of the people doing the work. Sad.
    Retired after 32 years (engineering)

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