"Ford" Motors to Make Auto Applications Using Natural Fiber Materials

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) reported that it will make automotive applications using natural fiber materials with mutual cooperation of Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY). Ford is working on the use of a tree fiber known as “cellulose” in its few plastic composites used to manufacture its vehicles. The company said that it can significantly decrease carbon dioxide discharge and weight by using cellulose in automotive applications.

The US automaker, Ford, also said that with the help of cellulose in automotive applications, pace of processing can be increased up to 40 percent. Ford and Weyerhaeuser are working to make plastic composite materials, which are more sustainable for future automobiles components. That is not the first that Ford is working on natural fibers to utilize them in its vehicles, the company is previously using a soybean based cushion in its automobiles that helps to save approximately 5,000,000 pounds of petroleum every year.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)’s stock on Sep 28, 2012 has so far registered a decreased of -1.75% to the opening price of $9.85. With its fifty two weeks range between $8.82 -$13.05, total market capitalization of the company remains at $37.49 billion.

The stock’s volume in the current trading session is 8.00 million shares. In its share capital, Ford Motor has 3.81 billion outstanding shares, among them 3.73 billion shares have been floated in market exchange.

Ford Motor is ahead its 52-week low with +12.58% and lagging behind from its 52-week high price with -23.42%. Ford Motor’s last month’s stock price volatility remains 1.88%. The stock price of Ford Motor is moving down from its 20 days moving average with -1.99% and remote positively from 50 days moving average with +2.96%.

Company has a beta coefficient of 2.32. Beta factor measures the amount of market risk associated with market trade.

Ford Motor’s past twelve months’ price to sales ratio is 0.29 and price to cash ratio remains 2.53. As far as the returns are concerned, Ford Motor’s return on investment is recorded as 15.75% and while its return on assets staying at 10.14%.

The stock has shown weekly downbeat performance of -4.02% which was maintained for the month at +7.28% Likewise the negative performance for the quarter was recorded as -0.20% and for the year at +2.24% with YTD performance of -5.56%.

While on the other hand, Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY)’s stock volume in the current session is 599,476.00 shares as compare to its average volume of 4.69 million shares. The stock after opening at $26.54 is trading around $26.44 by scoring -0.94%.

As the revenue measures, WY has generated revenue of $6.47 billion during the last twelve months with net income of $2.95 million. The Company has shown a positive 4.56% in the net profit margin and 7.42% in its operating margin while recording -14.33% as company’s annual sales growth for the past five years.

Until recently, the stock showed weekly upbeat performance of +1.64%, which was maintained for the month at +8.41%. Likewise the positive performance was recorded as +23.97% for the quarter and +72.30% for the year while the YTD performance remained at +45.93%.

The WY’s past twelve months’ price to sales ratio was 2.22 and price to cash ratio remained 16.75. As far as the returns are concerned, WY’s return on equity was recorded as 6.61% and 2.53% as return on investment while its return on assets stayed at 2.31%.