David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
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You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.
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I guess I'm a little skeptical about the product side of this restructuring. Can they turn around the decline in market share with their new product?
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GM is losing market share overall, but mostly because of its fleet sales. GM's sales to actual retail customers were up a bit in February, so its total market share is down, but in the units that really count, the results weren't that bad.
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Detroit was an island surrounded by prosperity this year. The big SUV sales collapsed and did a number on their profitability. Both GM and Ford will lose a little market share in 2006, but not at the rate of 2005.
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I'm not sure how significant that is because these warped market shares were caused by the strike that is now over.
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I don't think there's any sector- or stock-specific news that is moving these stocks today. The gains you're seeing are a reaction to the steep drop these stocks have taken of late and the recovery the shares have seen for the last few sessions. It's pretty much a group recovery.
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I don't think Wall Street had fully realized the dependence of GM's and Ford's North American earnings on a few light-truck models. That was the nasty surprise that drove their shares down.
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The passenger cars are not inherently as profitable as big SUVs or big pickups, but they have to refurbish their car line, even if it doesn't get them back to historical profit margins,
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We did not play great but the main thing is that we won,
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You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming.
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With GM, I think overall you'll be looking at a 9 percent increase in October this year versus October last year in GM's light truck sales, and I think that their SUV sales will show an increase at least that big year over year. That's the good news.
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To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it.
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While the (health-care) deal is a positive, they have several other challenges. They are losing too much market share. They have too many plants, too many people and too many models.
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What GM is talking about in my book are not hybrids. These are trucks with humongous starter motors.