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Bloomberg Businessweek The Year Ahead 2019 50 Companies to Watch

17 Ford Motor Co. ▼ F US

Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
growth growth assets sales return membership
Autos -0.5% -9.3% $258b $147b -16.5% 21.4%

There’s a massive restructuring ahead as the company Change in Ford vehicle sales
abandons mainstream sedans in favor of pickups and 60%
SUVs and comes to grips with Japan’s rising global U.S.
F-Series
market share and North American production capacity. trucks
It also has to gain ground in autonomous vehicles. The 40
coming year will be critical to turning the business
around. Management has been short on specifics as the 20
sense of urgency has deepened. U.S.
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18 General Electric Co. ▼ GE US
Industrials Est. sales 11% Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
Est. EPS
membership
assets
growth
growth
sales
return
$124b
-48.2%
-1.2%
18.2%
$342b
GE’s recent CEO swap-out gave its beleaguered stock a equipment—and paying a heavy price—the conglomerate
bump, but the road to recovery will be long. After making appears intent on accelerating asset sales from GE
a badly timed bet on demand for power generation Capital and narrowing its overall focus.
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19 Gilead Sciences Inc. ▼ GILD US
Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
Pharma growth -11.3% assets sales return membership
growth
-6.3%
$65b
$23b
30%
-7.7%
The drugmaker helped turn once-fatal HIV into a again until 2020 and its revenue has slipped, a pending
manageable chronic ailment and developed a cure for leadership change and bursting coffers put near-term
hepatitis C, becoming a $100 billion company along the growth within reach.
way. Even though Gilead’s drug pipeline won’t deliver
20 Hammerson Plc ▼ HMSO LN
Financials Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month net 1-year total Female board
growth
rental income
return
membership
assets
growth
-5.9%
-14.9%
20%
-4.2%
$12.7b
$491m
The British retail property REIT has been battered by outlets and revamping malls to enhance the shopping
the growth of e-commerce. It’s fighting back, reducing experience. Those efforts should help as retail real
costs and debt while focusing investment on premium estate values stabilize.
21 Harley-Davidson Inc. ▼ HOG US
Est. sales Est. EPS Total 12-month 1-year total Female board
growth growth assets sales return membership
Autos 5.1% 3.1% $11b $4.9b -16.6% 20%
Spurred by trade tension and the threat of additional and building the smaller, lightweight bikes favored
tariffs, Harley is adding production outside the throughout Asia. An Asian manufacturing partner could
U.S., bringing it closer to the emerging markets it’s make all the difference.
targeting. The problem: It has no experience designing