- Wall Street was unimpressed by General Motors’ Q2 earnings call. On the call, a Morgan Stanley analyst asked CEO Mary Barra: “How does GM expect to be profitable with EVs when players like Tesla apparently cannot?” Separately, Piper Sandler told clients that GM stock won’t break free of its bargain-basement multiple of five times next year’s forecast earnings if management is only tinkering around on the edges. The company needs a thesis-changing strategy like humanoid robots, it said.
General Motors and its legacy auto industry peers need a bold strategy for the future if they ever want investors to rethink their growth prospects, investment bank Piper Sandler warned on Tuesday. Otherwise their collective tinkering around on the edges with cost cuts here and inventory changes there amount to little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, the bank implied.
