General Motors Company (GM): How It Plans to Drive Faster Growth

Yet GM is facing vastly different conditions around the world. In China, GM has made huge inroads, selling more vehicles there than it does domestically. Yet because it has to share profits with its partners, the Chinese business is much less lucrative than its U.S. sales. By contrast, in Europe, GM hasn’t been able to stem multibillion-dollar losses, and any turnaround there will be excruciatingly slow even if it’s eventually successful.

The big question that many investors have of General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) is whether the automaker will ever get rid of the U.S. Treasury’s investment stake in the company. The current plan is for the Treasury to sell off its remaining stake between now and mid-2014, which would finally leave the company free of government intervention — albeit without having paid back taxpayers in full.

The article How General Motors Plans to Drive Faster Growth originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Dan Caplinger.

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