Is Ford Stock the New Tesla?

[OZER]

Shares of Ford Motor , surprisingly, have become somewhat controversial on Wall Street headed into 2022. Some analysts are taking their chips off the table, while others are doubling down.

On Thursday, Barclays analyst Brian Johnson increased his price target for Ford stock (ticker: F) to $23 from $18 and kept his Buy rating. Johnson believes Ford shares will keep working in 2022 amid low dealer inventories and high vehicle pricing.

Ford stock has had a great 2021 so far. Shares have soared almost 130% year to date.

Shares are getting another bump from Johnson's more bullish opinion. The stock is up about 1.8% in premarket trading. S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are up about 0.7% and 0.6%, respectively.

It's the second price target bump for Ford stock in the past couple of days. On Wednesday, Wells Fargo analyst Colin Langan increased his price target to $25 from $19 a share.

Not everyone is increasingly bullish on the auto maker, though. On Monday, Daiwa analyst Jairam Nathan downgraded the stock to Sell from Hold. Although he did take his price target to $19 from $16 a share.

After all the recent analyst adjustments, Ford price targets now range from $12 to $25 a share. The $13 spread is about 65% of the current share price. The average bull-bear spread for stocks in the Dow is about 48%.

Three months ago, target prices for Ford stock ranged from about $11 to $18 a share; the $7 spread was about 50% of the current stock price. This all illustrates that Ford stock is getting a little more controversial on Wall Street.

Even though Wall Street can't seem to agree on Ford, Tesla (TSLA) remains the king of car-stock controversy. The bull-bear spread for Tesla stock coming from large brokerage firms is about $1,330, or almost 140% of the current stock price.

One interpretation of increasing disagreement over Ford stock's value is that some analysts aren't sure Ford's 2021 gains are justified. Ford stock has benefited from improving auto demand and higher vehicle pricing. That part of Ford's gains likely doesn't vex analysts. But Ford shares have also gained because of improving electric vehicle sales. The company has sold about 25,000 all-electric Mustang Mach E vehicles so far this year. Ford EV momentum might be harder for analysts to reward.

In 2022, Ford is launching an all-electric F-150. How sales of that vehicle ramp will go a long way in determining how Ford stock performs this coming year. Rising EV sales will be a key factor for Ford investors in 2022—just like rising EV sales are a key factor for Tesla investors every year.

About 54% of analysts covering Ford stock rate share Buy. The average Buy-rating ratio for stocks in the S&P is about 55%. About 48% of analysts covering Tesla stock rate shares Buy.

[ontine]

The inflation, Afghanistan, forever Covid, supply chain issues, Ukraine, Iran again enriching uranium and more are attributable to the global chaos Trump unleashed.

[laborious]

DEPUTISE CITIZENS !  PLAIN CLOTHS ..

[captainvenom11]

Congress has outsourced it's responsibility to the FED.   They wants to abrogate their responsibility of making difficult but necessary decisions.    Balancing Taxes vs Spending isn't needed when you can print money out of thin air.

[elfnexx]

The answer is YES. The United States once set double digit interest rates and inflation dropped. It also caused recession.

[terfel]

No govt in the world can control inflation permanently unless they design people friendly policy prioritising public welfare instead of indulging too much on corporate giants as has been doing since decades. Unfortunately, all global leaders (so called) have turned themselves into slave  (may be puppet) of business magnets which is due to lack of statesmanship in their character. Needless to say that the benefits (legal and financial) offered to corporate houses as compared to common people in most of the countries shows incapability of policymakers to nullify social and economic disparity. At the end, the emphasis developed nations are giving in arms trade to generate revenue and security from other nations will put them under unmanageable socioeconomic disaster unless they change their mindset towards real wellbeing of common mass who elected them imposing tightest possible restrictions and vigilance on all corporate bodies.

[titanickid47]

Tesla: the company other than accountable for its own product. Hey look over there, brain implants when solar panels and cars are exploding. Do I want my Tesla brain implant to explode too?

[instigation]

Easy: Make Money more expensive (higher intrest) inflation falls, make money cheaper inflation rises. A lot of national banks do this for a century and it works!

[frivolity]

how to stop it: stop our current administration. not with paperwork, or votes, or impeachments but plain old force instead. like shoved out into the street to land on asses.

[zazer101]

When he first started speaking and straighten his eyeglasses you knew he was going in

[Xenos]

stupid take, the oil price has dropped, it should hult it a little. we can take a page from athens, just produce too much oil

[Pilot]

Jay Powell and the Fed should be rocketed to Mars. They pushed for all the monetary and fiscal stimulus, and now just can't fathom "how" we got this massive inflation. F-ing morons wanted to inflate away  the US debt....

[The_URRU_]

This is actually the best time!

[mischam1216]

The biggest problem I see ,most of us have relied on the good old government.Just what they want. Slavespeople growing their own food are way ahead of the curve. What do we expect..wa wa wa

[briancoyle]

10 would get fired againSuch an interesting thing to pay attention to instead of my source of income, 10