Ford Motor made good money the fourth quarter, $1.3 billion in operating profit, capping what the automaker said was "one of the company's best years ever," with a full-year operating profit of $8.6 billion, up from $8 billion the year before.
Fourth-quarter net income was $3 billion, padded by a one-time special tax benefit of $2.1 billion, which outweighed a one-time charge of $311 million. Net income for the year was $7.2 billion.
The quarter's results came out to the same 31 cents per share as a year earlier, which was several cents higher than analysts had forecast.
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USA Today