The profit is a vast improvement from the record $8.7 billion loss that Ford reported in the same quarter last year.
The Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker says it earned 69 cents per share, compared with a $3.88 per share loss for the same quarter in 2008. That was the worst quarter in company history.
But the latest profit comes because of a $3.4 billion gain due to debt reduction. In March Ford swapped stock and cash to reduce its loan and bond debt by $7.7 billion.
Without special items, Ford would have lost $424 million, or 21 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected a per share loss of 50 cents.
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