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. 2024 US share was 17.0%. 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 January 5, 2026, GM stock price climbed to $83.15 with 8,430,547 million shares trading.

GM has a beta of 0.82, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GM has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GM has a market cap of $77.57 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter General Motors Company reported $49 billion in Revenue and $2.80 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $4 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $.51.

In the last 3 years, GM traded as high as $83.68 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 return of +61.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.4%. In the last 3 month period, GM beat the market returning +38.5%, while SPY returned +3.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks GM has underperformed the stock market by returning +0.1%, while SPY returned +0.4%.

GM support price is $79.70 and resistance is $82.26 (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.