DETROIT – General Motors' sales slipped in 2019 as it discontinued some models and demand for its profitable pickups and full-size SUVs fell.

GM on Friday said it sold nearly 2.9 million vehicles last year, a 2.3% decline compared with 2018. That includes a drop of 6.3% to 735,909 vehicles in the fourth quarter from the last three months of 2018.

Shares of GM were down 3% to around $36.25 on Friday afternoon.

The Detroit automaker's results are in line with analysts' expectations for the company, however worse than the 1% decline expected for the overall industry in 2019.

GM sold more than 1 million crossovers for the second year in a row, an increase of 12.7% from 2018. That wasn't enough to make up for the 30.5% decline in passenger cars and a 2% slide in trucks, which include pickups, fulls-size SUVs and vans.

"We've focused our resources on what our customers want – crossovers and trucks – and that has paid off," Kurt McNeil, vice president of U.S. sales operations at GM, said in a release.