Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures. James D. Farley, Jr., our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), and Sherry A. House, our Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), have performed an evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures, as that term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), as of March 31, 2026, and each has concluded that such disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our periodic reports filed under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified by SEC rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the CEO and CFO to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There were no changes in internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2026 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. Legal Proceedings.
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
Any legal proceeding arising under any federal, state, or local provisions that have been enacted or adopted regulating the discharge of materials into the environment or primarily for the purpose of protecting the environment, in which (i) a governmental authority is a party, and (ii) we believe there is the possibility of monetary sanctions (exclusive of interest and costs) in excess of $1,000,000 is described on page 37 of our 2025 Form 10-K Report.
OTHER MATTERS
Brazilian Tax Matters (as previously reported on page 38 of our 2025 Form 10-K Report). One Brazilian state (São Paulo) and the Brazilian federal tax authority currently have outstanding substantial tax assessments against Ford Motor Company Brasil Ltda. (“Ford Brazil”) related to state and federal tax incentives Ford Brazil received for its operations in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The São Paulo assessment is part of a broader conflict among various states in Brazil. The federal legislature enacted laws designed to encourage the states to end that conflict, and in 2017 the states reached an agreement on a framework for resolution. Ford Brazil continues to pursue a resolution under the framework and expects the amount of any remaining assessments by the states to be resolved under that framework. The federal assessments are outside the scope of the legislation.
All of the outstanding assessments have been appealed to the relevant administrative court of each jurisdiction and some appeals are now pending in the judicial court system. To proceed with an appeal within the judicial court system, an appellant may be required to post collateral. If we are required to post collateral, which could be in excess of $1 billion for all the cases in the aggregate, we expect it to be in the form of fixed assets, surety bonds, and/or letters of credit, but we may be required to post cash collateral. To date, we have received collateral waivers for most of the cases that have been appealed to the judicial court system, although we have been required to post less than $100 million of collateral. Although the ultimate resolution of these matters may take many years, we consider our overall risk of loss to be remote.
ITEM 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
In the first quarter of 2026, we completed an anti-dilutive share repurchase program to offset the dilutive effect of share-based compensation granted during 2026 and the dilutive effect of settling with shares our obligations in excess of the aggregate principal amount of our 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due March 15, 2026 that were converted. The program, announced March 13, 2026, authorized repurchases of up to 31.7 million shares of Ford Common Stock. As shown in the rightmost column of the table below, we do not intend to make any further purchases under this program because its anti-dilutive purpose was fulfilled after purchasing only 26,550,000 shares.
| Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value) of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| January 1, 2026 through January 31, 2026 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 1, 2026 through February 28, 2026 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 1, 2026 through March 31, 2026 | 26,550,000 | $ | 11.72 | 26,550,000 | 5,150,000 (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total / Average | 26,550,000 | $ | 11.72 | 26,550,000 |
(a)The share repurchase program announced March 13, 2026 authorized repurchases of up to 31.7 million shares of Ford Common Stock. Although we have repurchased 26,550,000 shares and the program was authorized for up to 31.7 million shares, we do not intend to make any further purchases under this program because its anti-dilutive purpose has been fulfilled.
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