KEY POINTS
  • Ford Motor Chair Bill Ford has been slowly amassing more control of the automaker his great-grandfather founded in 1903.
  • He is the company's biggest individual shareholder with 2.3 million shares of the Ford's common stock.
  • More importantly, he directly owns 16.1 million, or 23%, of the Class B shares. That's quadruple the roughly 4 million, or 5.7%, he owned in 2012, according to FactSet.

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Incoming Ford CEO Jim Farley (left) and Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. pose with a 2021 F-150 during an event Sept. 17, 2020 at the company's Michigan plant that produces the pickup.

DETROIT – Ford Motor Chair Bill Ford has been slowly amassing more shares, and control, of the automaker his great-grandfather founded in 1903.

Unlike Elon Musk and other CEOs who've recently cashed out some of their company stock as prices soared, Ford has been doubling down on his namesake company over the last decade.

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