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Ford Motor Co: retained earnings or deficit

Ford Motor retained earnings or deficit: $22.5 billion at 2025-12-31, down 33.3% on the year. 21 values since 2008 from SEC filings, each linked to its filing.

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At a glance

Ford Motor reported retained earnings or deficit of $22.5 billion at 2025-12-31, down 33.3% from $33.7 billion a year earlier. Across the last five reported years it ranged from $22.5 billion (2025-12-31) to $35.8 billion (2021-12-31). That was 7.8% of total assets ($289.2 billion) at the same date.

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Accumulated undistributed earnings or deficit at the reporting date. This balance is not cash available for distribution.

Exact concept: us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit. Each value is a balance at the reporting date, not a flow earned over a year. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2008-12-31 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Retained earnings or deficit in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
-2025-12-3122,508,000,000USD2026-02-1110-K · 0000037996-26-000015 SEC
-2024-12-3133,740,000,000USD2026-02-1110-K · 0000037996-26-000015 SEC
-2023-12-3131,029,000,000USD2025-02-0610-K · 0000037996-25-000013 SEC
-2022-12-3131,754,000,000USD2024-02-0710-K · 0000037996-24-000009 SEC
-2021-12-3135,769,000,000USD2023-02-0310-K · 0000037996-23-000012 SEC
-2020-12-3118,243,000,000USD2022-02-0410-K · 0000037996-22-000013 SEC
-2020-01-0120,118,000,000USD2021-02-0510-K · 0000037996-21-000012 SEC
-2019-12-3120,320,000,000USD2021-02-0510-K · 0000037996-21-000012 SEC
-2019-01-0122,681,000,000USD2020-02-0510-K · 0000037996-20-000010 SEC
-2018-12-3122,668,000,000USD2020-02-0510-K · 0000037996-20-000010 SEC
-2017-12-3121,906,000,000USD2019-02-2110-K · 0000037996-19-000012 SEC
-2017-01-0116,200,000,000USD2018-02-0810-K · 0000037996-18-000015 SEC
-2016-12-3115,634,000,000USD2018-02-0810-K · 0000037996-18-000015 SEC
-2015-12-3114,414,000,000USD2017-02-0910-K · 0000037996-17-000013 SEC
-2014-12-319,422,000,000USD2016-02-1110-K · 0000037996-16-000092 SEC
-2013-12-3123,386,000,000USD2015-02-1310-K · 0000037996-15-000013 SEC
-2012-12-3118,077,000,000USD2014-02-1810-K · 0000037996-14-000010 SEC
-2011-12-3112,985,000,000USD2013-02-1910-K · 0000037996-13-000014 SEC
-2010-12-31-7,038,000,000USD2012-02-2110-K · 0000037996-12-000007 SEC
-2009-12-31-13,599,000,000USD2011-02-2810-K · 0001157523-11-001210 SEC
-2008-12-31-16,316,000,000USD2010-02-2510-K · 0001157523-10-001218 SEC

Related Ford Motor Co histories

All 56 Ford Motor histories

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Entity
Ford Motor Co / CIK 0000037996
Captured
SEC response SHA-256
db9621054cffb365bcb65cde1f53e4161fb26ac56ebf8a95b9066b3d2375203e

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with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000037996.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
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print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
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