Financial Summary – Q1’20
- Underlying financial results better than expected, due to our Market Adjustment Initiatives (MAI)
- Net Sales $362 million
- Net Sales decline 27% including Organic Sales1 decline 15%, 9pp better than the global LVP
- Active Safety Net Sales decline 15% including Organic Sales decline of 13%
- Operating cash flow $(9) million
Outlook – FY’20
- Withdraw previous Organic Sales FY’20 indication, however expect to outperform the global LVP primarily driven by new program launches
- Currency translation impact is expected to be ~(2)%
- RD&E, net is expected to improve by approximately $100 million from 2019, on a comparable basis
- Cash flow before financing activities1 is expected to significantly improve and the operating loss is expected to improve, both from 2019 levels (on a comparable basis) due to the success of our MAI program
Business Highlights
- Cash balance increased to $970 million due to strong cash flow performance and proceeds from the VNBS-Asia divestiture
- MAI program contributed to our strong cash flow before financing activities1 performance of $124 million
- Additional MAIs underway to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our cash flow and operating results
- Order intake for Q1’20 was approximately $175 million of average annual sales, with Active Safety more than 50%
- Veoneer and Volvo Cars have agreed to separate the Zenuity JV, allowing each company to focus on their strategic priorities
- Veoneer concludes the strategic review of its Brake Control business, classifies VBS-US operations as “assets held for sale”
Comments from Jan Carlson, Chairman, President and CEO
The spread of the coronavirus is first and foremost a global health crisis and our thoughts go out to everybody around the world suffering from its consequences. For us at Veoneer, health and safety is our first priority and we are taking the necessary actions to protect our people and safeguard our operations.
During the quarter we managed to combine the needed health and safety actions with strong execution in our business. We improved in basically all areas under our control, despite lower business volumes. Our cash balance increased to $970 million, net working capital improved by $89 million, RD&E decreased by $25 million, and capital expenditures were down by $32 million. We have also quickly adapted our ways of working, as exemplified by transitioning 4,100 employees to work from home without technical issues. As a response to the crisis, we have reduced our workforce by more than 200 people and an equivalent to around 1,000 full time employees furloughed. While these decisions are hard to make, we will continue to take the actions needed to steer Veoneer through the crisis.
The good outcome of a very unusual quarter is the result of the sharp focus of all our employees on operations and adapting to the on-going crisis. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the entire Veoneer team for the dedication and strong contributions in this difficult time.
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SOURCE: Veoneer
