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Part of GM's Repair Kit - A Very Bloodied Ax
By James B. Bleeker
At the outset, something should be said: Neither General Motors Corporation's chief executive officer nor its board of directors can be faulted for failing to anticipate the unrelenting and recently accelerated shift by consumers to the quality products of the Top Four - Toyota Motor Corporation, Honda Motor Company, the Subaru division of Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd., and Nissan Motor Company. It seems to have come as a surprise to nearly all, including site manager. (See "A Proof That the House Sparrow Is of a Higher Mental Order Than the Bottom Two Thirds of the U.S. Human Population," 2001 Annual Review, January 2001.) Indeed, site manager has not encountered one remark in the print media stating or suggesting that an auto analyst had foreseen a consumer shift toward quality, or claimed to have predicted it.
Nonetheless, there's a seeming trifle that roars and strips. On March 22, 2005, the Detroit News reported that GM's chief executive officer had purchased 50,000 shares of GM stock. This act by GM's CEO likely violates two fundamental principles of sound investment.
1. Never try to predict the bottom price of a stock. During Peter Lynch's evangelical days, he preached: When you ask yourself, "How low can a stock go?" you answer yourself, "To zero."
2. Never invest in a company's stock until there is solid evidence of improved prospects, with some uptick in business. Without it, there's only hope, something best left for slot machines.
Hence, site manager concludes, this fellow should not hold the authority to allocate other people's - here, shareholders' - assets, nor should he have been put into a position empowering and requiring him to do so. In short, he, and every board member voting for his ascendancy to the CEO office, should go.
Source for stock purchase info: "CEO Boosts GM with $1.5 Million Buy," Detroit News, March 22, 2005, at http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0503/22/A01-125040.htm
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