Ford Motor Company stock price saw mild volatility as macroeconomic data boosted the broader automotive sector, but institutional flows into legacy automakers remain selective compared to high-growth EV peers. When you take GM's share buybacks into account using total yield, which again combines the impact of both dividends and share buybacks, the picture looks entirely different. Ford boasts a 5.1% dividend yield, but only buys back small quantities of its shares annually, making its total yield a still respectable 6.85%. GM, on the other hand, distributes a dividend that yields a more modest 1%, but factor in its massive share buybacks and the automaker's total yield skyrockets to 14.29%. The discontent had been in place for some time, apparently, but it came to a head just recently when meeting room screens at Ford had been hacked. On said screens, the image of CEO Jim Farley’s head came up with a big red crossed-through circle around it, the symbol for “no.” Text that accompanied the picture featured a two-word phrase. One word was “RTO.” The other was an obscenity. Ford Motor Company stock price was buoyed by stronger-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data, suggesting resilience in domestic demand for pickup trucks and SUVs.