GM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (General Motors Company | NYSE:GM)

General Motors Co. emerged from the bankruptcy of General Motors Corp. (old GM) in July 2009. GM has eight brands and operates under three segments: GM North America, GM International, and GM Financial. The United States now has four brands instead of eight under old GM. The company regained its US market share leadership in 2022, after losing it to Toyota due to the chip shortage in 2021. 2025 US share was 17.4%, up 60 basis points from 2024. The Cruise autonomous vehicle arm, which GM now owns outright, previously operated driverless geofenced AV robotaxi services in San Francisco and other cities, but after a 2023 accident, GM decided that it will focus on personal AVs. GM Financial became the company's captive finance arm in 2010 via the purchase of AmeriCredit.

General Motors Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol GM.

As of April 17, 2026, GM stock price climbed to $81.32 with 6,168,075 million shares trading.

GM has a beta of 0.97, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GM has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GM has a market cap of $73.51 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter General Motors Company reported $45 billion in Revenue and $2.51 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-499 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.27.

In the last 3 years, GM traded as high as $87.62 and as low as $26.30.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that GM belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.

GM has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +83.9% while the SPY ETF gained +36.3%. However, in the short term, GM had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +0.8% vs +2.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, GM shares have fared better than the market returning +12.1% compared to SPY +8.3%.

GM support price is $76.40 and resistance is $79.71 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that GM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.