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Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Tue, Nov 4, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ferrari Q3 2025 Results Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions] Please note that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your speaker, Nicoletta Russo, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Nicoletta Russo

Analyst

Thank you, Rezia, and welcome to everyone who's joining us. Today, we plan to cover the group third quarter 2025 operating results, and the duration of the call is expected to be around 45 minutes. Today's call will be hosted by the Group CEO, Mr. Benedetto Vigna; and Group CFO, Mr. Antonio Piccon. All relevant materials are available in the Investors section of the Ferrari corporate website. And at the end of the presentation, we will be available to answer your questions. Before we begin, let me remind you that any forward-looking statements we might make during today's call are subject to the risks and uncertainties mentioned in the safe harbor statement included on Page 2 of today's presentation, and the call will be covered by this language. With that said, I'd like to turn the call over to Benedetto.

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Gracias Nicoletta. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. The past few months have been reach of important milestones for our company, among which the launch of the Ferrari Amalfi, the 849 Testarossa family, the first step of the reveal of the Ferrari Elettrica and the Capital Markets Day. Let's start from the Capital Market Day. On October 9, in Maranello, we gathered together and we shared our ambitions and plans for the future with investors, journalists and the entire world. In this current uncertain world, we shared an ambitious financial floor for the end of this decade, EUR 9 billion of revenues, 40% EBITDA margin and 30% EBIT margin. What did we say? What did we say at Capital Market Day exactly? Two things. We highlighted that Ferrari is a unique company, which combines 3 dimensions: heritage, technology and racing. It has a dual identity, both inclusive and exclusive capable to engage with tifosi, royalty and brand values across generations and geographies. We have set ambitions for each soul with unwavering goal to keep our brands strong for the longer term, well beyond 2030. In racing, we aim to win, we want to continue to be successful in Endurance and come back to victory Formula 1. We owe this to our P4 to fuel the passion and inclusive side of our brand. In sports cars, we continue to focus on managing and crafting the exclusivity of our product through an horizontal product diversification strategy, which ensures custody for each single model. We confirm our innovation pace. We will continue to offer our clients an average of 4 new models per year between '26 and 2030 across the 3 different powertrains: ICE, hybrid and electric to address different clients and different clients' needs. In 2022, we told you that the…

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Gracias Benedetto, and good morning or afternoon to everyone joining us today. Starting on Page 4, we provide the highlights of the third quarter, which once again delivered consistent growth and demonstrates solid progress. Product mix and personalization, along with rising revenues were the main drivers of revenue and profitability growth with shipments in line with the previous year. This resulted in a strong industrial free cash flow generation in the period. Let me underline that such results were accomplished notwithstanding the impact of the incremental U.S. import tariffs, which became visible in Q3, a greater foreign exchange rate headwinds and lower deliveries of the Daytona SP3, which was phased out in the quarter. On Page 5, we deep dive into our shipments. They were driven by the 296 GTS, the Purosangue, the 12Cilindri family, which continued its ramp-up phase and Roma Spider. The SF90 XX family increased its contribution. The 296 GTB decreased approaching the end of its lifecycle and the SF90 Spider phase out. Deliveries of the Daytona SP3 were lower than the prior year and concluded their limited series run. As anticipated by Benedetto, in the quarter, we started a significant changeover of models, which will be also visible in the next quarter. The SF90 family and the Roma were already phased out and the 296 family is approaching the end of its lifecycle. Indeed, those models will be progressively replaced starting from next year by the 849 Testarossa family, the Amalfi and the 296 special series, respectively, a record number of new models introduced at the same time. On Page 6, the net revenue bridge shows a 9.3% growth versus the prior year at constant currency. This translates into a 7.4% growth, including the headwind from currency, mainly related to the U.S. dollar dynamics. The increase…

Nicoletta Russo

Analyst

Thank you, Antonio. Rezia, we are now ready to take the questions. Please go ahead.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We are now going to proceed with our first question. And the questions come from the line of Michael Binetti from Evercore ISI.

Michael Binetti

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Just a couple for me. Antonio, I think you're saying that the mix impact in the second half will be a little bit better than what you anticipated. I saw that mix added about EUR 25 million in the quarter. I think last call, you said mix would be neutral for the second half. So can you just help us think what's driving a little bit of that upside? And maybe how much we can think about in fourth quarter from mix relative to the third quarter? And then I guess just as we think about the personalization comments you made about 20% now. You guided to personalization being closer to 19% longer term. It's like it's a little counterintuitive to us with the new tailor-made studios and the paint shop coming online next year. Maybe just walk us through what drives the moderation there?

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Yes, Antonio. Thank you, Michael. On the first question, yes, the mix in the...

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Can you hear well, Michael?

Michael Binetti

Analyst · Evercore ISI

I'm sorry, what was that...

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Evercore ISI

I was saying, can you hear well?

Michael Binetti

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Not very well, no.

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Evercore ISI

That's why I asked you because we understood that someone was not able to listen that we hear well. I don't know if this is...

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Okay. I'll try and answer. I hope you can hear me. Yes, the mix impact in the second half of the year has been slightly better than anticipated. So I remember I answered you in the second quarter call that we would have expected the mix more neutral in the second half. Now this is a slightly improved at least based on the third quarter results. And this is mainly due to personalization that remains very, very strong. With respect to your second quarter -- second question, we said we have prepared the plan on the basis of a 19% longer-term penetration of personalization. In this respect, the contribution of tailor-made and in particularly the tailor-made center, bear in mind that have been taken into consideration mostly to come closer to our clients. So the overall consideration on the penetration of personalization takes that into account with a view to be close to our clients also in countries where such tailor-made personalization are particularly relevant, such as Japan and the Western Coast of U.S.A.

Michael Binetti

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Okay. And can I just ask you one clarifying comment. You said the F80 will roll out over 3 years. Is that -- am I wrong or is that a little longer than the normal cadence for one of the strictly limited or supercar models like this? Is that -- and is there a strategy behind stretching that out a little longer? I would think normally would -- you'd see the bulk of those shipments in maybe 8 or 10 quarters?

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · Evercore ISI

[indiscernible] line with what we've been doing on the ICONA as recently, considering the overall number of cars involved and the start-up phase that is entailed by in order to get to run rate of production.

Operator

Operator

We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Stephen Reitman from Bernstein. It looks like the person just disconnected. We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Flavio Cereda from GAM.

Flavio Cereda

Analyst · Bernstein. It looks like the person just disconnected. We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Flavio Cereda from GAM

So my question is, I'm taking you back to the Capital Markets Day and your projections of top line growth to 2030. So a very simple question, volume price mix, volume, you got control it, mix to a point. And I was just wondering on price, your pricing power, given all that's been done and the great results that we've seen in recent years, Benedetto, where do you think you stand on this? Do you think you're coming to an end here? Or do you think there's more to come?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Bernstein. It looks like the person just disconnected. We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Flavio Cereda from GAM

Thank you, Flavio, for the question. It's not at all an end. Actually, we feel confident that with all the innovation that we have to delight our clients, we do not see any weakening in our pricing power. We will continue to offer Flavio, car with a different positioning. All of them will benefit of the pricing power because this pricing power, just to be clear, is not coming because we will just increase the price for the same, let me say, product as it is. No, we will make richer and richer innovative, more and more innovative with the product so that by delighting the client, we are confident that we will keep our pricing power. And this is what we are working on. And this is the goal of all the money that we invest in R&D, in innovation with all the team here.

Flavio Cereda

Analyst · Bernstein. It looks like the person just disconnected. We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Flavio Cereda from GAM

So aligned to more models, fewer volumes?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Bernstein. It looks like the person just disconnected. We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Flavio Cereda from GAM

Yes.

Operator

Operator

And the questions come from the line of Thomas Besson from Kepler Cheuvreux.

Thomas Besson

Analyst · Kepler Cheuvreux

I have 2 questions, please. First, on hybrids, I think the share was lowest in a couple of years. Is it linked with the changeover of product? Or is it driven by willingness to reduce overall hybrid share to eventually address excess deliveries in certain markets and residual values? That's for the first question. And the second, could you give us the delivery figures, please, for the Q3 data on us and what -- how many F80 you're already going to launch in Q4, please?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Kepler Cheuvreux

Okay. So the first one, Thomas, is just depends on the offer that we have on the lineup we are offering to our clients. The number of hybrid cars that we are offering is reducing because there is a change in the model. So there is no if you want, there is no surprise over there. It's a consequence of the way we launched the car. No, that's it. There is -- don't extrapolate any trend over there, okay? And it's not related to the propulsion. The second is how many F80 -- we are planning to launch to sell?

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · Kepler Cheuvreux

Just the initial few units, Thomas, not its number. And I [indiscernible] 40 in the third quarter.

Operator

Operator

We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the next questions come from the line of Stephen Reitman from Bernstein.

Stephen Reitman

Analyst · Bernstein

Apologies I had a problem with connection. And I apologize also if this question has been asked before because I was cut off, so I had to redial in again. So thank you for your comments about the contribution of 849 extending the coverage of your order book into 2027. I'd like to know if demand is similar for both the Coupe and for the Spider. And I know you don't comment on the order intake on a model-by-model basis. But could you talk about the level of interest you're seeing in the Amalfi? Is demand strong for the entry products as it is for your higher-end products? And my second question is regarding also on the hybrids. You've given us some detail in the past about the penetration rates you're seeing for your extended warranty program for the battery program and the like. And I think the last figure we had was running at about 15% to 20%. Obviously, that's a very good way of improving the residual values of these vehicles and making these Ferrari last being cars lost forever as your intention. So could you update us on where you are with that program? How well is it's understood?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Bernstein

Thank you, Stephen, and I understand that electronics is not always working well before. That is why we manage carefully electronics in our cars. Having said that, how it's going Amalfi? I think Amalfi is proceeding better than the previous model. So this is very encouraging. The second point I can tell you is that I saw -- I was in China the 21st of October, and I saw the first 2 Amalfi sold over there to new client younger than 40 years old. I can also share with you that in order book, more than 50% of the new clients -- of the -- sorry, 40% of the people that want to buy the Amalfi are coming new to the brand. And this is, let's say, we are pleased because one of the objectives of this car was to bring on board, new to the brand. So that's the comment on Amalfi. The story of hybrid, that hybrid warranty, I think that -- I mean, it's picking up, continues to pick up. It's more than 20%. But we see one simple things. we have dealers that are able to explain it well, while we still see some dealers that have not yet explained properly. So we are in the process to retrain some of our dealers because some of them are not able to explain properly the advantage of this warranty scheme. So we see improvement, but I think there is more if all the dealers are able to explain properly. So that's on the hybrid -- side. Thank you Stephen.

Operator

Operator

And the questions come from the line of Thomas Besson from Kepler Cheuvreux.

Thomas Besson

Analyst · Kepler Cheuvreux

I think I've already asked my question. So I think you can pass on to the next speaker.

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Kepler Cheuvreux

In fact, I was surprised.

Thomas Besson

Analyst · Kepler Cheuvreux

Yes, me too with.

Operator

Operator

And the next questions come from the line of Robert Krankowski from UBS.

Robert Krankowski

Analyst · UBS

Just 2 questions from me, please. And just maybe starting with the Q3. Like I think we are expecting that it's going to be the weakest quarter in the year. So obviously, something went better and maybe we heard that it was personalization. But maybe if you could talk specifically about the U.S. Back in Q2, you mentioned that there is some change in consumer behavior because of the tariffs. Have you seen it normalizing right now after we have more clarity on tariffs? And maybe the second one also related to the U.S. Obviously, there is a lot of conversation about residuals and there is some kind of concern about potential increasing order cancellations. Have you seen any unusual or any pickup in orders cancellation in the U.S. as consumers are a bit worried about potential change in residual values in the market?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · UBS

I'll take this question, Robert. So one, in U.S., the business proceeds as usual, number one. Number two, the only difference we see in U.S. that if you compare today versus the previous call, at that time, the tariff were still at 25%. Now they are at 15%. Now it's carved out in the stone, it's 15%. So that's the only difference we see. And we have been -- you remember last time, we told you when it will become, how can I say, blessed by papers, then we will update the commercial policy, and that's what we did. That's what we did before we said the price increase up to 10% when the tariffs were 25%. And now we say price increase up to 5%. That's the only difference in U.S. Then the business proceeds as usual.

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · UBS

And with respect to Q3 being originally thought as the weakest quarter in the year, I think the reason is simple. We were -- the level of personalization was higher than we were expecting. So that has on the top line. And in terms of the cost basis, a point that I highlighted when we revised the guidance upward, the cost base actually ended up being lower compared to our initial expectations.

Operator

Operator

And the questions come from the line of Tom Narayan from RBC.

Gautam Narayan

Analyst · RBC

My first one, Antonio, I think I didn't hear it, and you said it, but could you please review the bridge again from Q3 to Q4? I know the Daytona's are zeroed out, but then maybe review the -- maybe the R&D and SG&A. And then I have a follow-up.

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · RBC

Yes. With respect to Q4, Tom, I said that there will be lower deliveries year-over-year. That's a point that we already in the Q2 call. This is to be read in connection with the changeover models that we discussed. Then I said there will be a positive product mix, although we expect it sequentially lighter in line with the phaseout of the Daytona and the first unit of the F80. And the last point is that we expect higher SG&A and a seasonal step-up in racing expenses for development of the applications for the car as well as higher SG&A that are dictated by the start of production of the new models.

Gautam Narayan

Analyst · RBC

Got it. Okay. That's very helpful. And then I have a kind of high-level question. I think in the past, you said that when there's a new kind of form factor, like Purosangue was a very different vehicle than you had ever made in the past that initially, obviously, there is a -- I don't know, like a margin headwind relative to -- if it was a standard product that you've done before at the same price point. How do we think about the Elettrica from this standpoint, given that it's a completely different form factor, is it safe to say that there's a similar kind of margin headwind relative to models that you make at a much larger volume requiring less incremental new spend? Is that a safe assumption to make?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · RBC

I think, Tom, you have a good memory. That's what we said about Purosangue, but we said it when everything was announced and everything was clarified. So I don't want to look like unpolite but if you are patient a little bit, then we will be more precise on that. But before I said, like you remember, we told you everything when the shape was visible and not only the shape...

Operator

Operator

We are now going to proceed with our next question. And the questions come from the line of James Grzinic from Jefferies International.

James Grzinic

Analyst · Jefferies International

I guess I have really a philosophical question for Benedetto just to follow up on Flavio's. I think Benedetto, you've made it very clear that you expect a higher rate of innovation to continue to really support your pricing power for the brand -- when I consider your 2030 plan, you seem to assume that, that lever, that price/mix lever is going to be much less important than in the past. Is that -- should we be thinking that the rate of innovation in the next 5 years reduces to go hand-in-hand with that price/mix lever being less important than in the past 4 years?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Jefferies International

No, I think that innovation rate does not slow down, honestly. I think we have several innovation in the pocket that we plan to apply to the different cars, each one for its own positioning. And I mean if we would sit on the innovation, I don't think we would be call it Ferrari. So the reason why I was very clear with the question -- the answer to the question of Flavio Cereda is because we have several levers of innovation that go beyond the traction. There is the vehicle dynamics, there is user interface, there is architecture that is the driving trails that we feel confident that once we apply this to the different model, we will be able to delight the client and thus to use properly the pricing power because we are not -- I would like to maybe underline one point. We are not a company that is increasing the price of the same object just because time goes on. No. We increased the price of what we do because we put something more innovative in it and because this innovation is going to delight our clients. I think this is important. If you see also the way we increased the price in the past years, well, Ferrari has been unique in the sense that we have not increased the price of the same object, but we have put the innovation in the product and that because of a high degree of innovation, high degree of delightment of the client, we exerted properly the pricing power. That has been and that's going to be in this way, James.

Operator

Operator

And the questions come from the line of José Asumendi from JPMorgan.

Jose Asumendi

Analyst

Just one question, please. I guess frequently asked the question after the Capital Markets Day with regards to, I think, very exciting future, I think right products that you're launching into the market, but they also require some investments such as the launch of Elettrica. I think some lesser investments like the paint shop and I think all the credit facilities we saw during the Capital Markets Day. The question is to create a stability of margins in the business model, how can we think about the offsetting elements, the positive contributions you're going to have in the medium term to create that margin stability? And there might be some doubts in the market about the margin stability of the business model. How can we think about that balance between investments and then the opportunities you have to maintain and create that margin stability that you've shown, I think, in the past years?

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Let me see because there was some noise just to make sure that I understood properly, José. I think that if you want this question for me, the answer is very close to the previous one. The only way -- first of all, we are living in uncertain time. Yes. There is no difference also if you want to many other cases in the history. Now the only things we can do is to make sure that we keep innovating so to offer something that is unique to our clients, unique in the performance in engineering, unique in the design, unique in the way we do it because why are we doing the paint shop? Why are we doing -- why did we do the e-building? Because we want to be unique in the way we manufacture our cars, whatever they are ICE, hybrid and green electric. Why we are showing in a multistep way the innovation of Elettrica because we want to make sure that all the work done by the engineers -- well, it's not going to be lost because there are so many new things in this car as well as in other cars that we will make sure that innovation is properly, is properly, let's say, explained to our clients. We noticed it -- let's put it this way, we noticed that for some cars in the past, there was a lot of innovation content or there were several innovation content that were not properly explained. And this is an area of improvement we have. When we do something new, even on technology, on design, on engineering, we have the responsibility to explain well to the world because behind that -- beyond that, there is the work of many people, blue collar and white collar. So this is the philosophical question or the goal of this question of this company is to make sure that on the innovation side, whatever we do is unique. And this is, if you want, the best guarantee of the long-term sustainability of what we do. That's it. I only if you are unique, we can do something that guarantees the long-term sustainability. That's the reason why we gave you a floor for the end of this decade, and we feel confident about that because of the uniqueness of what we do.

Operator

Operator

And the questions come from the line of Michael Tyndall from HSBC.

Michael Tyndall

Analyst · HSBC

Two questions, if I can. One for Antonio. Can we talk about the F1 budget for next year? So headline number, if I'm not wrong, is USD 215 million from current USD 135 million. From where you're sitting, is that just an incremental $80 million of cost or does the scope change mean that actually the impact on your P&L is considerably lower than that headline number? And then the second one is just around can you talk a bit about FX on the order backlog? What scope do you have? And how much do you really want to push in terms of trying to offset what's going on with currencies on a backlog that now runs into 2027?

Antonio Piccon

Analyst · HSBC

Thanks, Michael. The first one really the fuel cost increase. That's an element we need to take into account. So if the F1 budget grows, this flows into our cost, and this is to be taken as a cost increase. On FX on the order backlog, based on the agreement that we have with dealers is in principle, we could change pricing with a 90 days anticipation, I guess. So that's something that in principle is possible. We decided on a country-by-country basis and depending also on the move in terms of the exchange rate on the size of the move.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Given the time constraint, this concludes the question-and-answer session. I will now hand back to Benedetto Vigna, CEO, for closing remarks.

Benedetto Vigna

Analyst · Evercore ISI

Thanks for your time today and also for all your interesting questions. Thanks a lot. We remain focused on executing our plans throughout the rest of this year. And also with confidence, we'll begin to build the next phase of our new business plan. It's a business plan that is ambitious, and we are highly confident that this is going to happen. We'll deliver on our promises as we already did so far. And this -- after this, I wish you a good morning or afternoon. And I thank you again for your attention and your questions. Gracias.

Operator

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect your lines. Thank you, and have a good rest of your day.