General Motors's quarterly profit nearly doubled, beating expectations, as the top carmaker took a larger share of sales in its home market and made gains in Europe and Asia.
Net income in the second quarter rose to $2.52 billion, or $1.54 per share, compared with $1.33 billion, or 85 cents per share, in the year earlier period.
Revenue rose 19 per cent to $39.4 billion, above the $36.74 billion analysts had expected during a quarter where US car sales hit a soft patch.
The results represent the second full quarter since GM's initial public stock offering last November and a restructuring intended to keep the largest U.S. automaker profitable throughout the industry's punishing boom-and-bust cycles.
GM emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 after a $52 billion taxpayer-funded bailout orchestrated by the Obama administration. The US Treasury still owns 32 per cent of GM's common shares.
Reuters