Exhibit 12
Ally Financial Inc.
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
Year ended December 31, ($ in millions) | 2011 (a) | 2010 (a) | 2009 (a) | 2008 (a) | 2007 (a) | |||||||||||
| Earnings | ||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated net (loss) income from continuing operations | $ | (112 | ) | $ | 986 | $ | (6,983 | ) | $ | 4,863 | $ | (1,950 | ) | |||
| Income tax expense (benefit) from continuing operations | 179 | 153 | 74 | (150 | ) | 477 | ||||||||||
| Equity-method investee distribution | — | — | — | 111 | 65 | |||||||||||
| Equity-method investee (earnings) losses | (87 | ) | (57 | ) | (10 | ) | 533 | 5 | ||||||||
| Minority interest expense | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Consolidated (loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes, minority interest, and income or loss from equity investees | (19 | ) | 1,083 | (6,918 | ) | 5,358 | (1,401 | ) | ||||||||
| Fixed charges | 6,298 | 6,743 | 7,017 | 10,041 | 13,592 | |||||||||||
| Earnings available for fixed charges | $ | 6,279 | $ | 7,826 | $ | 99 | $ | 15,399 | $ | 12,191 | ||||||
| Fixed charges | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest, discount, and issuance expense on debt | $ | 6,266 | $ | 6,712 | $ | 6,984 | $ | 9,991 | $ | 13,533 | ||||||
| Portion of rentals representative of the interest factor | 32 | 31 | 33 | 50 | 59 | |||||||||||
| Total fixed charges | 6,298 | 6,743 | 7,017 | 10,041 | 13,592 | |||||||||||
| Preferred dividend requirements (b) | 763 | 2,149 | 1,224 | — | 192 | |||||||||||
| Total fixed charges and preferred dividend requirements | $ | 7,061 | $ | 8,892 | $ | 8,241 | $ | 10,041 | $ | 13,784 | ||||||
| Ratio of earning to fixed charges (c) | 0.99 | 1.16 | 0.01 | 1.53 | 0.90 | |||||||||||
| Ratio of earnings to fixed charges and preferred dividend requirements (d) | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.01 | 1.53 | 0.88 | |||||||||||
| (a) | During 2011, 2010, and 2009, we committed to sell certain operations of our International Automotive Finance operations, Insurance operations, Mortgage operations, and Commercial Finance Group. We report these businesses separately as discontinued operations in the Consolidated Financial Statements. Refer to Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of our discontinued operations. All reported periods of the calculation of the ratio of earnings to fixed charges exclude discontinued operations. | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Amount for 2010 includes a $616 million reduction to retained earnings (accumulated deficit) related to a conversion of preferred stock and related amendment that occurred on December 30, 2010, as described in Note 20 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in our 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K. | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | The ratio indicates a less than one-to-one coverage for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2009, and 2007. Earnings available to for fixed charges for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2009, and 2007 were inadequate to cover fixed charges. The deficient amounts for the ratio were $19 million, $6,918 million, and $1,401 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2009, and 2007, respectively. | |||||||||||||||
| (d) | The ratio indicates a less than one to one coverage for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009 , and 2007. Earnings available for fixed charges and preferred dividend requirements for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2007 were inadequate to cover total fixed charges and preferred dividend requirements. The deficient amounts for the ratio were $782 million, $1,066 million, $8,142 million, and $1,593 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2007, respectively. | |||||||||||||||