General Motors (GM)
Forward P/E is 5.72x against a peer median of 10.16x, a ratio of 0.56x — well below the 0.90x undervalued line — with trailing P/E 19.03x and PEG 0.35. Latest-quarter revenue grew 3.3% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR); growth is below the cluster median but positive, and the cluster median is positive, so the value-trap check passes. Delivered demand check: the Autos, parts & leisure group's median growth was 5.7% year over year — demand steady, and General Motors is growing more slowly than that pace.
What would change this label: Move to FAIRLY PRICED if the forward P/E rises to about 9.1x or above (0.90x the peer median) at unchanged estimates, or if revenue growth falls below 0% year over year for two quarters. Move further from fair value if revenue growth rises above 6% year over year while the forward multiple stays below 6x.
General Motors makes cars and trucks under brands such as Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac. Its shares cost under 6 times next year's expected profit, roughly half the price of similar companies, and sales grew about 3% in the latest quarter. The shares look cheap — the low price reflects a slow-growth car business, not falling sales.
Both lines start at 100 on 2020-09-01. Over the full window General Motors returned +170.36% and the S&P 500 +118.28% (price returns; dividends not reinvested). Worst peak-to-trough fall for General Motors: -59.5% (2022-01-04 to 2023-11-09). Source: Nasdaq official daily history.
What the label rests on
Forward P/E is 5.72x against a peer median of 10.16x, a ratio of 0.56x — well below the 0.90x undervalued line — with trailing P/E 19.03x and PEG 0.35. Latest-quarter revenue grew 3.3% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR); growth is below the cluster median but positive, and the cluster median is positive, so the value-trap check passes. Delivered demand check: the Autos, parts & leisure group's median growth was 5.7% year over year — demand steady, and General Motors is growing more slowly than that pace. The company’s forward P/E is 5.7× against a peer median of 10.2×. Its own history: UNVERIFIED — no sourced range available. Sector demand read: Delivered demand check: the Autos, parts & leisure group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 5.7% year over year (SEC filings) — demand steady. General Motors grew 3.3%, more slowly than that median. Latest-quarter sales growth was +3.3% versus a year earlier (SEC filings).
| Company | Price (Oct 28, 2026) | Forward P/E | Trailing P/E |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Motors (GM) | $80.42 | 5.7× | 19.0× |
| GRMN | $275.00 | 25.8× | 26.4× |
| F | $11.77 | 6.7× | — |
| HAS | $120.33 | 18.1× | 17.9× |
| DECK | $79.79 | 10.2× | 10.5× |
| APTV | $43.50 | 7.2× | 42.3× |
| Peer median | 10.2× |
Multiples: stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026. Peer set chosen by sector; the median is the middle value of the set. The label and its numbers were recorded in the programme’s label registry on Oct 28, 2026 and will be scored at 6 and 12 months.
Sales, profit and cash
This company does not report a gross-profit line in its SEC facts (normal for banks, payment networks and some health insurers), so profit is shown as net income instead — gross margin is marked UNVERIFIED-absent rather than estimated.
Free cash flow = cash from operations minus spending on plant and equipment, both from the company’s SEC cash-flow statement. Gaps are quarters where that spending line is not separately tagged in the filings — shown as gaps, never estimated.
| Quarter | Sales | Gross margin | Net income | EPS (GAAP, diluted) | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q/E Sep 2026 2026-09-30 | $45.7B | — | $3.3B | 3.73 | $5.0B |
| Q/E Jun 2026 2026-06-30 | $43.8B | — | $1.3B | 1.41 | $4.4B |
| Q/E Mar 2026 2026-03-31 | $39.3B | — | $2.6B | 2.82 | $1.4B |
| Q/E Dec 2025 2025-12-31 | $41.0B | — | $-3.3B | — | $3.6B |
| Q/E Sep 2025 2025-09-30 | $44.3B | — | $1.3B | 1.35 | $5.0B |
| Q/E Jun 2025 2025-06-30 | $42.9B | — | $1.9B | 1.91 | $4.8B |
| Q/E Mar 2025 2025-03-31 | $39.9B | — | $2.8B | 3.35 | $4.2B |
| Q/E Dec 2024 2024-12-31 | $43.6B | — | $-3.0B | — | $907M |
| Q/E Sep 2024 2024-09-30 | $44.7B | — | $3.1B | 2.68 | $4.6B |
| Q/E Jun 2024 2024-06-30 | $44.1B | — | $2.9B | 2.55 | $3.4B |
| Q/E Mar 2024 2024-03-31 | $39.2B | — | $3.0B | 2.56 | $369M |
| Q/E Dec 2023 2023-12-31 | $39.3B | — | $2.1B | — | $-49M |
The last twelve reported quarters. Full 25-quarter history sits in the data pack behind this page. A dash means the figure is not tagged as a standalone quarter in the company’s SEC facts (the usual case is the fourth quarter, which many companies only report inside the full-year filing) — it is missing, not zero.
Earnings: getting better or worse?
Each box is one quarter’s earnings per share (EPS). Green means EPS was higher than the same quarter a year earlier; red means lower; a dash means the figure is not tagged in the filings.
Basis: GAAP diluted EPS from SEC company facts, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Key facts
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Company (legal name in filings) | General Motors Co |
| Chief executive | Mary Barra (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Corporation) |
| Sector | Consumer Discretionary — Automobile Manufacturers — makes and sells cars, trucks and SUVs under brands such as Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac |
| Share price (Oct 28, 2026) | $80.42 |
| Market value (market cap) | $67.9B — share price times shares outstanding of 843,549,423 (SEC filings; SEC EDGAR dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (latest)) |
| Sales, last twelve months | $169.8B |
| Net income, last twelve months | $4.0B |
| Free cash flow, last twelve months | $14.4B |
| Latest reported quarter | Q/E Sep 2026 (of 25 quarters in the data pack) |
| Six-year price return vs S&P 500 | +170.36% vs +118.28% |
| Worst peak-to-trough fall | -59.5% (2022-01-04 to 2023-11-09) |
What we could not verify
- Gross profit / gross margin: not tagged as a standalone line in this company's EDGAR company facts (common for banks, payment networks and some healthcare payers) — shown as UNVERIFIED-absent; the page charts revenue and net income instead.
- TTM GAAP diluted EPS could not be summed from company facts because at least one of the last four quarters (typically Q4) has no standalone tagged EPS; trailing P/E is therefore taken from the labelled secondary source in valuation_label.md.
- Own-history P/E range not yet compiled for this company in the Phase 1 batch run; the label rests on peer-median, growth and PEG evidence.
- Guidance record (each quarter scored against the guidance the company gave the quarter before) is not yet compiled for this company — it is a Phase 2 layer. The earnings strip below therefore uses reported EPS versus a year earlier, which is fully sourced from filings.
The IT factor — the most exciting thing the market is overlooking — is not assessed on an X-Ray page. It belongs to the Deep Dive (Phase 2), where it gets the evidence standard it needs. Leadership-era scoring (the six years split by chief executive) is likewise a Phase 2 layer; this page names the current chief executive only, from a sourced profile.
Sources
- SEC EDGAR submissions — Filing index; company legal name.
https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001467858.json - SEC EDGAR company facts — Quarterly financial spine: revenue, gross profit, net income, GAAP diluted EPS, operating cash flow, PP&E capex, buybacks, dividends, diluted shares.
https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001467858.json - Nasdaq official daily history — Daily closes for the company; SPY (assetclass=etf) saved as raw/nasdaq_spy_raw.json over identical dates.
https://api.nasdaq.com/api/quote/GM/historical?assetclass=stocks - Valuation multiples and peer figures — stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026; see valuation_label.md in the data pack.
Conventions: earliest-filed value per period, as first reported; cash-flow years-to-date differenced quarter by quarter; EPS never differenced; free cash flow = operating cash flow minus plant-and-equipment spending. This page is a dated snapshot — updates are new versions, never silent edits.