The Cheapest $26 Million Ford Ever Spent, As Its Stock Beats Apple’s
Ford Motor (NYSE: F) CEO Alan Mulally made $26,520,515 in 2010, according to the company’s proxy. It is the cheapest $26 million the firm ever spent. Ford was at death’s door a year after he joined that manufacturer in September 2006.…
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Ford was at death’s door a year after he joined that manufacturer in September 2006. Mullaly bet the company on loans which totaled $23 billion. The money was enough to see Ford through the recession and out-of-the-way of the Chapter 11 filings by GM (NYSE: GM) and Chrysler.
Ford passed GM in monthly sales in March. GM, the regular leader in domestic sales, units were up less than 10% last month to 206,621. Ford’s rose 19% to 212,295. Ford’s light truck sales were unusually strong, the primary reason it gained a lead over its rival.
Ford’s stock fell below $1.50 in November 2008. It closed this week at $15. To put a point on the strength of the shares, Ford’s are up nearly 500% in the last two years while Apple’s are 225% higher.
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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
