GM Heading For Second Bankruptcy

[Kathianne]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoo...kruptcy-again/

8/15/2012 @ 6:24PM |391,200 views

General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy -- Again

President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once again losing market share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive in the U.S. market.


Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the company. It would need to get about $53.00/share for these to break even on the bailout, but the stock closed at only $20.21/share on Tuesday. This left the government holding $10.1 billion worth of stock, and sitting on an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion.


Right now, the government’s GM stock is worth about 39% less than it was on November 17, 2010, when the company went public at $33.00/share. However, during the intervening time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen by almost 20%, so GM shares have lost 49% of their value relative to the Dow.


It’s doubtful that the Obama administration would attempt to sell off the government’s massive position in GM while the stock price is falling. It would be too embarrassing politically. Accordingly, if GM shares continue to decline, it is likely that Obama would ride the stock down to zero.


GM is unlikely to hit the wall before the election, but, given current trends, the company could easily do so again before the end of a second Obama term...

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GM going bankrupt?

Guess "Obama should get the VOLT(s) he deserves" from a nice seat in an electric chair...where he has to pay the Carbon Tax.

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I wonder how much the United Auto Loafers have lost on the stock drop. This time around there will not be the bond holders to stiff because the "Distinguished Gentleman from Chicago" already manipulated the order of priority on bankruptcy proceeds.