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February 09, 2006 at 07:00 PM
Struggling automotive giant General Motors (GM) isn’t very popular among mutual funds.
In light of GM’s recently announced moves to cut more costs, Fund Advisor uncovered only two mutual funds that had the stock among its top ten holdings as of Dec. 31, 2005: Hennessy Total Return Fund (HDOGX), and Hennessy Balanced Fund (HBFBX).
GM just unveiled a series of cost-saving measures, including cutting its dividend by half, reducing its health-care expenses for retirees by about $900 million annually, restructuring its salaried pension benefit plan and lowering the pay for the company’s chairman and senior executives. These steps follow the huge $4.8 billion loss the company posted in the fourth quarter of 2005, as well a downgrade of its credit to “junk” status earlier in the year.
In response to GM’s move, Standard & Poor’s senior automotive analyst Efraim Levy said, “we are encouraged that GM finally halved its dividend, which will enhance its liquidity by an annual $565 million.”
