general motors stock has tumbled in 2022 and director patricia russo scooped up shares of the auto giant gm ticker gm stock came off a hot year surging 41 in 2021 compared with a 27 rise in the sp 500 index this year shares are down 17 while the index has slipped 9 unlike rival ford motor f gm hasn’t resumed paying its dividend which it suspended in the early months of the covid19 pandemic nonetheless both gm and ford have seen a recent wave of analyst downgrades and one observer thinks that tesla tsla