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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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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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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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 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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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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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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It's more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it's a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there's less business to go around for the suppliers.
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It's strange. I don't even know about friends, what they think about me, ... You don't really know who you can trust.
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It's still a very profitable segment. That's why everyone is getting into it. But you will definitely see more incentives.
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The bearishness is overdone. This is probably the part of the cycle where you'd do well owning auto stocks if you have some patience.
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They've got to get these operations turned around. By 2007, I think that will begin to happen.
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They've got some interesting new stuff coming out. They're going to continue to do better than GM and Ford in North America, but I think there'll be a squeeze on their earnings.
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These pills can be useful pills, but they don't match up to the hype we've had that they really cure the illness.