Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Analyzing Management
Leadership at public companies plays a crucial role for hedge funds and asset managers during both initial due diligence and continuous risk assessment. ManagementTrack offers a consistent methodology that filters out distractions—highlighting specific strengths and weaknesses, identifying warning signs and positive indicators, and establishing a tangible connection between CEO actions and financial outcomes.
CEO Stewart’s cost expertise may not overcome sales weakness to restore share.
Analysis of Goodyear Tire & Rubber CEO Mark Stewart
While Mark Stewart’s career-defining expertise in cost containment aligns with the ‘Goodyear Forward’ plan, his historical weakness in sales and dealer management may challenge the company’s ability to restore volume and market share.
ManagementTrack’s analysis focuses on Mark Stewart’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for GT:
- Managing commercial truck downturn to protect margins.
- Executing price hikes & channel shift amid weak demand.
- Navigating consumer inventory glut to restore volume and pricing.
- Executing ‘Goodyear Forward’ to hit cost & debt reduction targets.
Report Available: Proprietary Interviews & Analysis on Mark Stewart Answers Key Questions
ManagementTrack reports provide track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. They allow investors to dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question Answered #1
How will Stewart balance his deep expertise in cost reduction against his historical weakness in sales and dealer management to restore Goodyear’s market share?
Question Answered #2
How does Stewart’s method of empowering managers and seeking employee approval impact his ability to execute difficult cost-cutting mandates?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
What is ManagementTrack’s analysis of Mark Stewart at Goodyear (GT)?
ManagementTrack’s assessment of Mark Stewart is based on its proprietary career analysis and in-depth interviews with former colleagues, which establish his track record, key strengths, and weaknesses. This executive profile is then evaluated against Goodyear’s most critical challenges: managing the commercial truck downturn to protect margins, executing price hikes and channel shifts amid weak demand, navigating the consumer inventory glut to restore volume and pricing, and delivering on the ‘Goodyear Forward’ plan to meet cost and debt reduction targets.
Beyond career analysis, how does ManagementTrack link executive actions to future company performance?
ManagementTrack utilizes additional proprietary tools to connect leadership behavior with future results. Its models are designed to detect unusual patterns of evasion by executives during earnings call Q&A. The platform also scrutinizes all insider transactions, isolating outlier trades that can predict future stock performance. These data points, along with the predictive ManagementTrack Rating—a 1-10 score for every executive—offer investors a distinct view on how management will likely influence future outcomes.
What is the scope of ManagementTrack’s coverage?
ManagementTrack offers real-time coverage of the executive leadership teams at every public company.
How to Learn More
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Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
- Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Mark Stewart
- Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 10Q
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 10K
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Earnings Calls
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
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- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
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