A class action has been filed against General Motors Corporation (GM), certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between February 25, 2002 and March 16, 2005. The action claims that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. The stockholders seek to recover compensatory damages for the loss of value of their stock.
According to a press release dated September 19, 2005, the complaint alleges, inter alia, that defendants General Motors, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and certain of GM’s officers and directors, issued or caused to be issued materially false and misleading statements to the investing public with respect to the Company's financial performance and condition during the relevant time. In addition, during the fourth quarter of 2004 and the first quarter of 2005, defendants, with knowledge or reckless disregard of facts then in their possession, disseminated materially false and misleading projections, lacking in reasonable basis, with respect to GM's first-quarter and year 2005 revenues, earnings and cash flow.
During the Class Period, when the Company's debt ratings were materially inflated by defendants' materially false and misleading statements and omissions, defendants caused GM to issue more than $18 billion in debt securities. When the true facts finally began to come out at the end of the Class Period, the price of GM stock, which had closed at $32.71 on March 15, 2005, declined by $4.57 per share, or 14%, to close at $28.14 per share on March 16, 2005. The prices of the Company's debt securities also declined in the market.
If you bought General Motors Corporation securities between February 25, 2002 and March 16, 2005, inclusive, and would like to obtain information about the General Motors Corporation lawsuit, then you are invited to call (866) 467-1400 to speak with an attorney.