Ford employees to get $9,000 profit sharing check

(WJBK) - Ford Motor Company announced Thursday eligible employees will receive about a $9,000 profit sharing check. Ford says about 56,000 eligible hourly UAW-represented employees are eligible for this.

On the same day, though, Ford reported its first quarterly net loss in seven years due to largely to a pension accounting change.

FCA employees to get $5,000 profit sharing check

The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $783 million, compared with a $1.9 billion profit a year ago. The loss was due largely to a $3 billion noncash adjustment of its pension obligations.

For the full year, the company still posted its second-best pretax profit ever at $10.4 billion and net income of $4.6 billion.

Ford says it lost 20 cents per share for the quarter, but excluding special items, it made a 30-cent profit. That fell just shy of Wall Street estimates. Analysts polled by FactSet expected 31 cents per share.

Quarterly revenue fell 4 percent to $38.7 billion, also missing analyst estimates.