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Swedish electric-vehicle maker Polestar mentioned Friday that its third-quarter working loss narrowed from a 12 months in the past as income greater than doubled, and it confirmed that it nonetheless expects to ship 50,000 autos in 2022.
However the firm warned that greater prices and supply-chain points will proceed to squeeze its margins into 2023.
Listed below are the important thing numbers from Polestar’s third-quarter earnings report, its first as a public firm following its merger with a special-purpose acquisition company in June.
- Income: $435.4 million, versus $212.9 million within the third quarter of 2021
- Working loss: $196.4 million, down from $292.9 million a 12 months in the past
Regardless of the working loss, Polestar was in a position to report a internet revenue of $299.4 million, or 14 cents per share, because of an accounting credit score associated to the revaluation of future share payouts. (As a result of Polestar’s share value has fallen because it went public, it must pay out lower than it had beforehand anticipated, therefore the credit score.)
Shares have been up over 16% in early buying and selling on Friday following the report.
“I want to reiterate: Polestar is an actual automobile firm,” CEO Thomas Ingenlath mentioned in the course of the earnings name. “We’re placing vehicles on the highway immediately and we’re delivering on our formidable progress plan.”
CFO Johan Malmqvist mentioned that Polestar’s decrease working loss was helped by its efforts to scale back prices, particularly short-term reductions in promoting and advertising and marketing spending. Alternatively, overseas trade headwinds exacerbated the loss, and people are anticipated to proceed into subsequent 12 months.
“As our vehicles are produced in China, nearly all of our prices are in renminbi, which has strengthened in opposition to European currencies, resulting in the next price of sale,” Malmqvist mentioned in the course of the earnings name.
Malmqvist mentioned that Polestar nonetheless expects to ship 50,000 autos in 2022, producing about $2.4 billion in income for the total 12 months, each according to its prior steerage. These numbers indicate deliveries of about 19,600 autos within the fourth quarter, producing about $924 million in income – and people autos are already constructed and in transit to prospects now, he mentioned.
Polestar ended the third quarter with about $988 million in money, and it has since secured a $1.6 billion credit score line from its two most important homeowners, Volvo Cars and Chinese language automaker Geely. That is sufficient to fund the corporate by way of 2023, Malmqvist mentioned.
