The top U.S. auto company maintained a slim sales lead entering into December but Toyota’s local duo had a solid month because of a zero-finance deal on the Aurion and Camry. The outcome is another blow to Ford’s stressed Broadmeadows assembly line, which has faced output reductions and redundancies as sales of the once-popular Falcon continue their downward spiral. Read more here.

How the Ford (F) stock is trending now?

Shares of Ford Motor traded up0.62% during last trading session, closing at $12.95. The share price of Ford Motor on Monday was in a range of $12.76 to $13.08. The company now has a market value of $49.37 billion.

Are you optimistic or bullish on the near-term price outlook?

The stock, after recent close,is 16.09% up their SMA 50 and recently hit new 52-week high. Theworst hit in its 52 week range is $8.82 per share, with $13.08 as its 52 week best price that compares with a latest closing price of $12.95. Its latest closing price has a distance of +10.57% from SMA20 and is 23.05% up than SMA200.

Watch the stock’s performance in different time span.

With recent gain, the 2012 performance reflected a 25.36% gain above last year. During the past month the stock advanced 12.32%, bringing three-month performance to +29.89% and six-month performance to +29.63%.

Do you know how risky is this stock?

For this company, beta value at 2.27 represents it is more volatile to the shift in the market. If we take a look on its volatility, 3.84% was seen in a week and for the month it was 2.47%.

What does equity analysts say?

For the stock, mean recommendation this week is 2.1. Sharing price target summary; nearly 15 brokerages have a mean PT as $14.67 and median PT of $14.00 while the highest price target set by those rating agencies was $20.00 and lowest PT was $12.00.