Ferrari N.V. (RACE) Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

Ferrari N.V. (NYSE: RACE) Q4 2020 earnings call dated Feb. 02, 2021

Corporate Participants:

Nicoletta Russo — Head of Investor Relations

John Elkann — Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Analysts:

Michael Binetti — Credit Suisse — Analyst

John Murphy — Bank of America — Analyst

Giulio Pescatore — Exane — Analyst

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

Monica Bosio — Intesa San-Paolo — Analyst

George Galliers — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Massimo Vecchio — UBI Banca — Analyst

Adam Jonas — Morgan Stanley — Analyst

Stephen Reitman — Societe Generale — Analyst

Presentation:

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Ferrari 2020 Full Year Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] For your information, this conference is being recorded.

Now, I’d like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Nicoletta Russo. Please go ahead.

Nicoletta Russo — Head of Investor Relations

Thank you, Andrea and welcome to everyone who is joining us. There are two topics that we plan to cover today. First, the Group’s fully 2020 operating results and then our full year 2021 guidance. In light of this, the duration of the call is expected to be around 60 Minutes.

Today’s call will be hosted by the Group’s Chairman and acting CEO, Mr. John Elkann; and Group CFO, Mr. Antonio Picca Piccon.

All the relevant materials are available in the Investors section of the Ferrari corporate website. At the end of the presentation, we will be available to answer your question.

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 governed by this language.

With that said, I’d like to turn the call over to Mr. John Elkann.

John Elkann — Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Grazie, Nicoletta. Good morning and afternoon to all. I would like to start thanking all of my colleagues in Ferrari for the remarkable results in 2020, a testament to the strength of our business model and resilience of our core business. In fact, we exceeded full year guidance on all metrics in 2020.

These results have been achieved factoring the impacts of COVID-19 on all of our activities. This environment gave us the opportunity to learn more about our strengths and weaknesses, which allowed us to further fortify our company for the future.

2020 has also been characterized by the successful digital unveiling of the Ferrari Portofino M, SF90 Spider and 488 GT Modificata. Today, we have the most beautiful, most innovative and widest product range in our history.

I would like to highlight some of our achievements that we are particularly proud of. Back on Track, which is Ferrari’s program to safeguard the health of our employees in a COVID-19 secured environment, which has become a reference in Italy and around the world. Equal salary certificate — in July, we were the first Italian company awarded in recognition of the same compensation amongst women and men for equivalent roles and jobs, testifying our commitment to create an inclusive and diverse working environment. And social responsibility, in helping with different activities during this pandemic crisis.

I’ll just mention a few, which we are particularly proud of. We launched with our clients a fundraising, matching all of their donations to support the medical staff and the health system of our community in Maranello and surroundings. We joined forces with the Italian Institute of Technology to present the Open Source project, SiFive, a revolutionary low cost and lightweight pulmonary ventilator. And lastly, during the seven weeks closure of the factory, we did not use any State Aid program and continued to pay full salaries of all of our employees.

2020 was also a year of celebration: Our 1000th Grand Prix, the highest number in Formula 1 ever reached, our victories in the GP racing season; and we reached over 2.5 million visitors in our Esports series. But our 2020 Formula 1 results reminded us that a great past doesn’t equate to a great present or future. This painful reality, both for ourselves and our fans is that from which we must restart with humility, focusing on what will make us competitive and ultimately lead to winning.

As we enter into 2021, which Antonio will give you more details about, we continue to work on our product plan for this exciting decade ahead, adapting it to a fast-evolving environment. Our journey to carbon neutrality will provide a wider framework for our future. We are working on a clear plan, including Formula 1, to become carbon neutral through actions taken directly and indirectly within this decade.

We are optimistic about the opportunities ahead of us and look forward sharing and discussing the future of Ferrari for this decade at our Capital Markets Day in the first half of 2022.

Now, let me address the CEO succession. We have established, as a board, a search committee, which is responsible for a process to identify the right successor to Louis Camilleri. And we want to take the necessary time to find the best possible CEO for our company.

On this note, I would like to express my most sincere thank you to Louis, who is listening on our call today, for his personal commitment as our CEO since 2018 and as a member of our board since 2015. His passion for Ferrari is and has been limitless. Under his leadership, the company has further affirmed its position as one of the world’s greatest companies. Louis built a leadership team that is continuing to propel our company forward, as our results demonstrate, and for which I am personally grateful to him and to all of my colleagues at Ferrari.

I now hand over the call to Antonio, who will review our full year 2020 results and 2021 guidance. Since our strategy remains unchanged and our execution of it is on-track, he will also directly manage the Q&A session.

I would like to thank you all and pass it over to Antonio.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good morning or afternoon to everyone who is joining us today. I’ll start from Page 6, where you can see the highlights of 2020 results, which exceeded our latest guidance in these difficult times, driven by very strong fourth quarter results. This was achieved on the back of the strength of our core business, improved Formula 1 revenues, the cost containment actions deployed during the year and a tailwind from foreign exchange compared to our projections.

Our shipments in 2020 were 9,119 units, approximately 10% less than prior year, in line with our production planning. Group net revenues were EUR3.450 billion, down 8.1% compared to prior year, driven by lower deliveries as well as lower Formula 1 and brand revenues.

EBITDA came in at EUR1.143 billion down 10% with a margin of 33%. It is worth noting that the EBITDA margin in our core business was better in 2019. EBIT was EUR716 million, down 21.9% embedding higher G&A.

Adjusted net profit was EUR534 million, down 23.5% versus 2019 and resulting in an adjusted diluted EPS of EUR2.88 versus EUR3.71 of prior year. The adjusted figures reflected a tax benefit with no cash impact on 2020 as a result of the one-off partial tip off of the trademark book value in accordance with the Italian Tax Regulations.

Industrial free cash flow for the year was EUR172 million. What you can see in these charts are the fundamental dynamics underlying our business. We have recorded strong order intake since the summer 2020, fueled by the resumed commercial activities and the new product unveilings. As a result, on a yearly basis, we ended up with a net order intake very much in line with 2019 despite a very different environment, and the trend continued in January.

The order book is at record level, up 22% versus last year, and covering the entire 2021 and beyond. Should we discount the effect of the production loss due to COVID-19, it would be up nearly 10%.

Cancellations remained well within our average experience and were actually lower than in 2019. Residuals are holding up well on the back of the growth of pre-owned transaction volume. This happened notwithstanding the challenges and thanks to the effectiveness in reshaping the way we engage with customers through a mix of in-person and digital events, digital reviews and more exclusive gathering and test drives.

We obviously owe a lot great lot to our dealers for this, who have been standing by us unabated even during the most difficult outburst of the pandemic in their respective countries.

Page 7 shows the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that mostly hit the second quarter of 2020 due to the seven-week production suspension and the temporary dealers’ closure. The flexibility and adaptability that is a hindrance to our organization and the resilience of the order book underpinned a V-shaped recovery. Indeed, our Q4 was a record quarter in terms of volumes, net revenues and EBITDA growing double digit versus an already robust Q4 2019.

Turning to Page 8. You can see the details of the full year 2020 shipments down 1,012 units, following the seven-week production suspension in the first half of 2020 and dealers’ temporary closure due to COVID-19 pandemic, partially offset by a gradual production recovery of roughly 500 units in the second half of the year.

Sales of both V8 cylinder and V12 were down 10.3% and 9% respectively. During the year, despite the COVID-19 disruptions, we managed to deliver the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2, as originally scheduled. The F8 family continued the ramp-up phase, offsetting the special series of the 488 Pista family, which was approaching the end of its life cycle.

The 812 GTS, who’s deliveries commenced in the second quarter and reached global distribution, while the Ferrari Portofino phased out at — of the introduction of the Ferrari Portofino M in 2021. The deliveries of the SF90 Stradale started in Q4, following the industrialization delays experienced and then solved. In the same quarter also, the Ferrari Roma commenced deliveries.

Yearly shipments were affected by our deliberate geographical location, based on the different stages of the life cycles of our model by region. As a result, EMEA and the rest of APAC were almost in line with prior year. Americas was down 19.8% but showed a 14% upturn in Q4, thanks to the ramp-up of the 2019 models.

Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, posted a decrease of 45.5% in the year, while grew triple digits in Q4, thanks to the ramp-up of 2019 models and easy comparison versus prior year. As a reminder, we privileged deliveries in this region in the first nine months of 2019.

Notwithstanding the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, we unveiled three new models in 2020: the Ferrari Portofino M, the SF90 Spider, and the limited-edition track car, 488 GT Modificata, which will lead the market in 2021, and I’m happy to announce that our portfolio will be further enriched by three new models’ unveilings this year.

Turning to Page 9. You can see here displayed the walk of our Group net revenues for the full year. That was down 8.9% at constant currency. Revenue from cars and spare parts were down 4.1% at constant currency. Such performance reflects the volume decline and their personalization, partially offset by the positive mix price, mainly thanks to the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2.

Personalization rate on cars and spare parts revenue was around 18% while down in absolute terms given the volume contraction. Engines’ revenues were down 24%, mainly reflecting lower shipments to Maserati and revenues from the rental of engines to other Formula 1 racing teams.

Revenues from sponsorship commercial and brand were down EUR150 million, significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the shortened number of Formula 1 races as well as lower in-store traffic and museum visitors.

Other revenues were down 19.3% at constant currency, were mainly impacted by reduced sports-related activities and the cancellation of the Moto GP at the Mugello racetrack, only partially offset by the first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix at our circuit.

Currency, including translation and transaction impacts as well as foreign currency hedges, which played a significant role, had a positive contribution of EUR32 million, mainly the U.S. dollar.

Moving to Page 10. Let me review the change in our EBIT, which was EUR716 million, down 21.9% or 25.3% at constant currency with EBIT margin at 20.7%. The negative variance at constant currency remains mostly the COVID-19 impact on Formula 1 brand related activities and engine sales, partially offset by the resilience of our core business.

More precisely, volume drove a negative variance of EUR126 million due to previously mentioned reduced deliveries, mix price valiance was positive for EUR130 million, thanks to the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2, and our richer product mix and country mix in Q4, despite fewer [Indecipherable]. This was partially offset by the lower contribution from personalization programs due to the decrease of shipments and the gradual phase out of the 488 Pista family.

Industrial costs, research and development costs increased EUR38 million, mainly due to higher G&A net of the benefits of technology related incentive recognized in the year. This also included the full costs of employees paid days of absence during the COVID-19 production suspension.

SG&A decreased EUR6 million, reflecting significant cost containment actions partly offset by Formula 1 racing activities. Other decreased EUR211 million due to the pandemic impact on the Formula 1 racing calendar, lower traffic from brand-related activities as well as engine sales to Maserati. The total net positive impact of currency was EUR38 million year-on-year.

Turning to Page 11. Industrial free cash flow generation for the year was EUR172 million. Deposit generation was driven by EBITDA, partially offset by investment of EUR709 million to fuel our long term product development, including over EUR60 million from the purchase of tracts of land contiguous to our facilities in Maranello.

Net of the impact of IFRS 16, our capital expenditure for 2020 was slightly lower than our guidance due to a slower spending cadence in the last quarter, that we will make up in 2021. The capitalization ratio was approximately 38% for the year, basically in line with 2019.

The adverse working capital impact due primarily to the reversal of the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 advances received in 2019 and higher product and raw material inventories to protect the supply chain in this complex month.

Tax payments, higher than last year, mainly as a result of the Patent Box mechanics. Net industrial debt as of the end of the year was EUR543 million compared to EUR337 million last year.

During the year, a total worth of EUR130 million share were repurchased before the decision to temporarily suspend the program and EUR212 million were distributed in dividend.

With respect to the share repurchase program, it’s important for you to know that we remain focused on rewarding our shareholders, and the Board of Directors will decide the best course of action as the year unfolds.

At the end of 2020, total available liquidity, including undrawn credit lines for EUR700 million committed was EUR2.62 billion, which compares with approximately EUR1.880 billion as of September 30.

As a reminder, an amount of EUR500 million were just used to reimburse the bond maturing in January.

Moving to Page 12, you can see the 2021 guidance which targets a strong rebound versus 2020, with net revenues around EUR4.3 billion. And that target is predicated upon having trading conditions unaffected by further restrictions or impacts from the pandemic on our core business, revenues from Formula 1 still discounting the known uncertainties on the calendar and reflecting a lower 2020 ranking, and brand activities still dealing with the COVID-19 challenges throughout 2021.

Adjusted EBITDA between EUR1.450 billion and EUR1.500 billion with approximate percentage margins between 33.7% and 34.9%, adjusted EBIT between EUR917 million and EUR1.20 billion, targeting an EBIT margin between 22.6% and 23.7%. These reflects the higher G&A, following the capex increase of most recent years besides the mentioned challenges due to COVID-19. In addition, we expect operational and marketing expenses to gradually resume.

Adjusted diluted EPS between EUR4 and EUR4.20 per share, assuming approximately 20% tax rate. Industrial free cash flow in the region of EUR350 million. Our free cash flow will reflect higher capex, which we expect to amount to around EUR800 million with a slight catch up compared to 2020, as already commented.

Finally, it is worth noting that the guidance for 2021 rests on the assumption that the exchange rate will remain in line with the last part of 2020 for our most relevant currencies. The extraordinary conditions of 2020 affected all of us in many ways. What has not changed is the commitment and passion that we live and breathe every day in Ferrari.

2021 guidance growth is an evidence of our unchanged ambitions. We clearly know that there is a lot of focus on 2022. On the one hand, the pandemic has clearly affected our plans. As disclosed, we have postponed some initiatives. In addition, the pace of introduction of new emissions regulations all over the world has been accelerating. To have better clarity on our future, we also need to handle the uncertainties caused by COVID-19 impacting the development of our core business and our Formula 1 racing and brand-related activities possibly nothing longer than originally expected.

On the other hand, the inherent strength of our business model and resilience of our core business have proved their worth in this recent period, which gives us confidence in our ability to tackle challenges and possibly transform them into opportunities.

As our Chairman just said, we have an exciting opportunities. As our Chairman just said, we have an exciting decade ahead, which we look forward, sharing and discussing when we need for our Capital Market Day in 2022. With that said, I turn the call over to Nicoletta.

Nicoletta Russo — Head of Investor Relations

Thank you, Antonio. We are now ready to start the Q&A session. As a reminder, it will be managed by Antonio. Thank you, Andrea, after you.

Questions and Answers:

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Michael Binetti from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead.

Michael Binetti — Credit Suisse — Analyst

Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for all the detail. I want to ask about the guidance first, I suppose. If we look at the 2022 EBITDA that we talked about at the Capital Markets Day, it had implied incremental margins of about well over 50% relative to the 2019 numbers. And then your 2021 guidance implies less than 40% incremental margins versus 2019. I’m wondering what do you consider are the components that will leave incremental margins in 2021 below that trajectory that we knew about?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Michael. It will not look that much at 2021 for the trajectory to 2022. This pretty much depends on the mix. We assume that the capital product mix that we assume at the capital market day, as I said, we’ll review. There was an expected significant growth between the two years. 2021 as of now is back on the trajectory we had at the time we prepared the plan of September 18.

Michael Binetti — Credit Suisse — Analyst

Well, let me ask you about that I guess. If I just look at what the bridges you just gave us, if I just back out the business losses that you showed us hard numbers for in 2020, a EUR126 million in volume and EUR211 million of lost revenues from Formula 1 calendar activities and brand activity. That would have put you at EUR1.48 billion of EBITDA in 2020, which is the midpoint that you guided us to for 2021. Obviously, you’ll get some car business back and I know the general theme of the Capital Markets Day long term plan was to keep growing the business and evolving the profitability. So, I’m wondering how much — I guess the nexus of the question is how much conservatism you feel like you need to bake in to the 2021 margin guidance today?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I think there is some, because 2021 is still affected by significant uncertainty. I mentioned some elements in the slide that you see. Cannot be more specific in terms of amounts. But clearly, all of our business, including F1, have to some extent to deal with the uncertainty related to the development of the pandemic.

Michael Binetti — Credit Suisse — Analyst

And then John, just one last one. I know John mentioned regarding a path to carbon neutrality and developing a wide framework. I thought that was a very interesting comment. Would you mind elaborating, because it’s a subject of much discussion among shareholders? Could you elaborate on what you think are the key high level underpinnings to get there that we should think about as far as how Ferrari thinks about it?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Yes, I think I can speak on a qualitative basis. Despite the fact that we are focused on the car business, we also have other activities in. Our cars business is basically made of the carbon footprint of our products. That one is very specific per se. And brand-related activities also have their own features.

So, first of all we need to put all of that together and be able to compute the carbon footprint for the company, companywide basically. And then given the size of this footprint, we can put together a mix initially at least of action to tackle the issue, both with direct actions and with compensation.

As I said, the plan is first to achieve carbon neutrality — sorry, carbon footprint certification. And then at that point, we’ll be really ready to be more specific as to the actions that we’ve put in place to achieve what our Chairman just mentioned is the goal to become carbon neutral within the decade.

Michael Binetti — Credit Suisse — Analyst

Okay. Thank you very much, guys.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of John Murphy from Bank of America. Please go ahead.

John Murphy — Bank of America — Analyst

Good afternoon. And because you mentioned Louis was listening, Louis we hope you’re doing well and miss you on many levels. Just a first question, and I think Michael’s question on the 2021 guidance I think is very, very important, Antonio, because I think we’re all trying to figure out what the basis is to work off of for our 2022 and beyond numbers, because it still seems like there’s some noise and pressure on 2021. Is that kind of a fair statement to say, “Hey, 2021 is still a year that’s got you know COVID noise, some incremental cost and some other things that might not be the best way to think about building off of as a basis here for the trajectory in 2022 and beyond”; is that a fair statement?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I’m not sure I got all the details of your question, because the line is not very good. I understand you’re asking about how 2021 may be informative as to the development of the results for 2022. Only partly, I would say. 2021 is mostly execution, assuming that COVID-19 allow us to do so, to execute well in alignment with our plans. 2022 already encompasses the expectation of the introductions of new models and there is where we need to be more specific later on.

John Murphy — Bank of America — Analyst

Okay. And then just a second question, you mentioned personalization was lower in 2020. I’m just curious as you think about 2021 in a recovery and then beyond, do you think that personalization will be significantly additive to results going forward, and it was a little bit depressed in 2020 because of COVID?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Okay. Thank you for this question, John. I think we discussed a number of times in previous calls too. We don’t do product personalization because it usually — while the average does not move much throughout time, it is actually dependent on the mix of our products. We mentioned I think already in a couple of calls the fact that personalization rate has been influenced by special periods. Clearly, the price of the cars is important because it affects the denominator in the total revenue. So, I would not be particularly mindful about the fluctuation of this personalization rate. What actually matters in absolute terms are the margins that are attached to that.

So, you may imagine that the personalization rate for Monza in terms of the share of revenues is lower compared to that of Portofino or maybe — or the Pista. It’s a balance of that, but the contribution may be very different.

John Murphy — Bank of America — Analyst

Okay. And just lastly, on the Concorde Agreement, I was just wondering if you could give us any basis on the positive or negative side for economics going forward, just how we should think about that in a very basic way on the positive, negative swing factors?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Yes. I prefer to comment saying that the net impact of the introduction of the new Concorde Agreement and the budget cap is kind of neutral for us. That is the expectation the way we monitor it through our time.

John Murphy — Bank of America — Analyst

Okay, great. Thank you very much.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, John.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Giulio Pescatore from Exane. Please go ahead.

Giulio Pescatore — Exane — Analyst

Hi, everyone. First of all, I also wanted to take this opportunity to wish Louis all the best.

Now coming to the questions, I want to come back to the 2021 guidance and in particular the free cash flow one. I really struggled to understand how to reconcile this EUR350 million guidance, also because you’ve given us EUR800 million capex number. So, what are the other assumptions behind this number in terms of working capital? And then how do we think about bridging this result with the 2022 target, given that it would imply a growth of 3 times in current cash flow generation.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Giulio. As you know, our free cash flow is basically the result of how much we take out from the EBITDA due to capital expenditures. Working capital in a wider sense, meaning, we take into account also the impact of the advances that we receive on the Monza. And we have a drag — significant drag on it still in 2021. This is basically we catch some parts — significant parts of the price of the Monza already in 2019, and we want to have them in 2021. And beside the usual dynamics of the rest of working capital that does not count much usually, we have the tax and financial charges payment.

As far as tax is concerned you should take into account the fact the new Patent Box scheme basically provides for the cash benefit to be split in three years. So, there would be a slight reduction in 2021 compared to what we witnessed in 2019 and 2020. Does it help?

Giulio Pescatore — Exane — Analyst

Yes, yes, a lot. Thank you very much. And if we look at the 2022 number again, does it include any impact from new deposits for a potential new limited-edition car or is — or should we say it’s a clean number?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Yes, that’s a fair assumption.

Giulio Pescatore — Exane — Analyst

Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. Then I also wanted to come back on the decision to postpone the CMD. It that only driven by the fact that there isn’t a permanent CEO at the moment or there is anything else behind the decision?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I don’t think that we have communicated a date for the CMD, Giulio. If there is anything, we’ll speak about that.

Giulio Pescatore — Exane — Analyst

Okay, okay. No problem then. And then also looking at your shipments for Q4, I mean you were indicating shipments down around 9% for the full year in 2020. You closed the year down 10%. Is there any maybe conservativeness in deliveries in the last few weeks of the year? Have you taken maybe how the delivers will kind of affect —

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

No, not really. It’s just rounding, Giulio, just rounding.

Giulio Pescatore — Exane — Analyst

Okay. Okay, thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Susy Tibaldi from UBS. Please go ahead.

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. First of all, I would like to talk a little bit about the mix evolution to expect in 2021. Clearly, your mix is becoming stronger and stronger. At the same time, we do have the generalization of the Monza and also the Pista’s being phased out. So, net-net what should we expect in terms of contribution kind of mix in 2021?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

We expect mix to be positive, and this is due to the fact that we will keep on delivering the Monza as per our plan, and we should have significant growth in terms of giving deliveries of SF90. So, that’s the main driver of what we expect.

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

Okay. And then when it comes to the percentage of volumes that you expect to be hybrids, because you had a target at the CMD to have 60% by next year, which I mean at the moment you have two models. So, how should we think about the step up? And do you have — can you give us an indication of what percentage of 2021 volume could be hybrid?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

No, as you know, we prefer not to go into that. We prefer to look just at revenues. Those are much more relevant than volumes per se.

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

Okay. And on the CEO search, I mean I can imagine that you cannot give details in terms of names that you might be considering. But can you perhaps discuss a little bit what are the key criteria’s and qualities that you are looking for in the next CEO?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I’m sorry, the question is about what? I didn’t catch you.

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

The search for the new CEO, if you can describe the key criteria’s and characteristics that you’re looking at?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Yes, I’m sure the Board is considering all of the criteria that are necessary to run a company like ours. You’re right, yes.

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

Okay. And maybe just one last one as a clarification. Can you just remind us what plans have been affected and what initiatives are being postponed as a result of COVID?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

No. Once again, I think we mentioned a couple of times this year the basics and main drivers of all our growth plans remains unchanged. It’s just a question of timing from after that. But as we are not specific in advance of the models we launch, we cannot be on even more I would say on the initiatives that will come in a couple of years or longer.

Susy Tibaldi — UBS — Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thanks.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Monica Bosio from Intesa San-Paolo. Please go ahead.

Monica Bosio — Intesa San-Paolo — Analyst

Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for taking my questions. The first one is on China. Can you give us a flavor on what are we going to expect in term of shipments from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in 2021, and if you see some major flow of shipments in the coming year from these regions?

And the second is on the timing for the new models. Can you give us a rough timing for the announcement of the three new models in 2021?

And the very last is on the quarterly trend. I know it’s difficult, but the outlook is still uncertain. So, do you see some differences with the quarter-by-quarter, if you can just give us a flavor about the first quarter and going forward? Thank you very much.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Monica. I’ll start from the launches. That’s a nice try. But as you know, we do not go into that sort of details. With respect to the quarterly development of the year, we have some seasonality, something has changed in 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic. So, the comparison will not be an easy one. It’s not just the development of volumes, but it’s also the mix that’s changed, and also in terms of revenue recognition for F1 activity. So, it’s a bit difficult without entering into the detail of modeling, I would prefer not to do.

The last one is China. What we currently witness is a nice comeback of order from there. You should not ever look at our deliveries in 2019 and 2020, because these were affected by our decision to anticipate introduction of a new emission regulation that was unexpected in 2019. As a result, 2020 suffered in the comparison. 2021, what we currently see is a significant growth of order, particularly and nicely, that’s maybe an interesting one on the Monza — sorry, on the Roma, and with a significant share of orders from women there. So, that means something in terms of the facilities a car may have even it’s with the thermic engine.

Monica Bosio — Intesa San-Paolo — Analyst

Okay. Thank you very much, Antonio. Thank you.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Monica.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Galliers from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

George Galliers — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Good afternoon and thank you for taking my questions. The first question I had — and apologies if you did allude to this in the comments. But just for this year, what are your assumptions around raw materials and FX? And have you already taken actions to price through the appreciation in the euro against the U.S. dollar which we saw last year?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, George. In terms of our policy on FX, as you know we have a policy that provides for hedging on a rolling basis with some target percentages. So, a significant chunk of 2021 has already been hedged throughout 2020. Still, we do not go 100% and there is room for changes and impacts from changes in FX on our results, which has minimized but may go one side to another.

As far as raw material, for those who really matter, we have a similar policy.

George Galliers — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Understood. Thank you. And then the second question I had was just with respect to the order book. You’re obviously extremely clear that the order book is very strong and extends well into next year. Can I just ask you, is there much variation by model line or more importantly by market in terms of what you see with respect to the order book? Or is it pretty robust across the board at this point in time?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I will describe it as a pretty robust across the board, across geographies. Across the board meaning across product and geography, nicely enough.

George Galliers — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Great. And then the final question, just to clarify. And I think both Michael and John have already touched on this, but I just wanted to clarify. At this point in time, you still are aiming to deliver the 2022 targets that were presented; is that a fair statement?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I think that will come with the — that will come with the Capital Market Day. At that point we may describe the strategy we’re pursuing, and if and by how much any results expected, any target expected for 2020 is to be changed — sorry, 2022.

George Galliers — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Thank you.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, George.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Thomas Besson from Kepler Cheuvreux. Please go ahead.

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Thank you very much. I have a couple of questions left please. Firstly, you had, because of —

Nicoletta Russo — Head of Investor Relations

Sorry, Thomas. Can you maybe speak a bit louder and closer to the microphone? We have trouble hearing you. Thank you.

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Sure. Sorry for that, Nicoletta. Is it better now?

Nicoletta Russo — Head of Investor Relations

Way better. Thank you very much.

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Okay, great. Sorry for that. So, a couple of questions left please. First, on the EBIT bridge in 2020. Because of COVID you had an enormous Others line that was very negative. Should we expect part of that to reverse positively in 2021 or is it just something that’s gone?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I’m not sure I got which is the part of the EBIT bridge that you’re talking about?

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

The one called Other.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Sorry. Well, you know that the Other includes the impact of F1, which in principle may come back to the extent the calendar — the F1 calendar is not affected the same way it was in 2020. That obviously include the revenues from the commercial write order and the revenues from the sponsorships.

And but it also includes the impact on EBIT from the delays on our — delays and closure of our brand-related activities. Once again there, we are very much dependent on the evolution of the pandemic. And finally, we are also partly dependent on Maserati in terms of volumes and margins attached to that.

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Okay. Thank you. Actually, you gave me a connection to the next question. Can you just clarify the potential financial consequences of stopping the delivery of Maserati engines? We are not fully aware obviously of the contract you had with them. Is there a need to write-off any asset or –?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

The agreement with Maserati is expected to end in 2023. That business is dilutive for us in terms of margin and furthermore I think we outlined since the time of the Capital Market Day that we expect to have some capacity to be freed up from the top of their activities that may be used for the development of our models and of our power trains going forward.

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Okay, thank you. I have a last question that may be beyond the scope, but I’d try it. Could you give us any hint about the 2022 capex plan and the timeline for the Purosangue launch, whether it’s still within the frame of the initial plan or whether it’s now pushed into ’23?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

No, I would only prefer not to go into that. Once again, we said there are some developments ongoing. It’s better to talk when everything is clear.

Thomas Besson — Kepler Cheuvreux — Analyst

Understood. Thank you very much.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Massimo Vecchio from UBI Banca.

Massimo Vecchio — UBI Banca — Analyst

Yes, good afternoon to everybody. I have a follow-up question on the capex indication. EUR800 million is really a big number. It’s probably the highest in the history. I was wondering if you can give us some details on what are the number one or two projects that you are investing in or at least by category if it’s R&D for new proposed terms or its –? Any color would be helpful.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Sure, Massimo. By the way, this was the same target we gave was better — expectation that we gave beginning of last year, when we started 2020 and before being thrown back by the impact of COVID. And there is some catch up in the number from being lower pace of our investment in the last part of 2020. Mostly, this is mostly production, so product development, which also is attached to that. In terms of the consideration that we are not more on the thermic engines. We also have, as you well know, hybrid, and we are working on other. Infrastructure is a small part of that, but we cannot disregard the development in our factory here as we did by the way, buying, purchasing contracts on land contiguous to our facility and to our headquarter here. So as I said, it’s mostly product, and this is by the way fully in line with what we said at the Capital Market Day back in 2018, so we’re adjusting and executing with that.

Massimo Vecchio — UBI Banca — Analyst

Okay. Okay. Thank you very much.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Adam Jonas from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Adam Jonas — Morgan Stanley — Analyst

Thanks, everybody. And I have a question for John Elkann, but I just wanted to say at the outset that I mean all the talk around 2022 guidance, I totally understand it. But just think about how much the world has changed in terms of CO2 and climate change and EV economics since the 2018 CMD. That almost renders the 2022 guide irrelevant in my opinion, but just my opinion. But John, a question for you. Ferrari vehicles, I know management in the past on tailpipe emissions had the comment that because Ferrari vehicles are such a miniscule part of a park that it’s really tiny and that you could kind of talk to regulators and somehow convince them we’re not a big deal and you could kind of purchase credits and very easily at current carbon prices or even more than that kind of make it neutralize it. But what’s happening of course as you know John and the team and now cities are getting involved, London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, big, big Ferrari cities are kind of saying, “No, we’re not going to allow the operation of ICE vehicles in the coming years.” And so, I — it just means you run the risk of having the regulatory environment move outside of your control.

So with that in mind, I’d love to hear maybe a direct question, John, can you see a day within the next decade where the majority of Ferrari’s products are 100% electric, not just hybrid because that’s still considered tailpipe climate changing cars in the eyes of these mayors and cities that we’re talking to and you’re talking to. Could you see — and I’m not asking to say it’s going to happen, but is that — is that too radical for Ferrari while protecting the sanctity of the brand? Thanks, John.

John Elkann — Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Hi, Adam. Good to hear your voice. I think that the best way to answer is really an open invitation for next year in Maranello to talk to you and all your colleagues who are going to join us on the exciting journey that we have over this decade. And 2030 will still be a year where we will have hybrid cars. So, within this decade we won’t be seeing a Ferrari fully electric. What we will see within this decade is an electric Ferrari, and I hope you will buy one Adam.

Adam Jonas — Morgan Stanley — Analyst

I love you, John. Let’s talk about it.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Stephen Reitman from Societe Generale. Please go ahead.

Stephen Reitman — Societe Generale — Analyst

Yes. Good afternoon. Thank you. Question on — you mentioned very impressively that your cancellation level in 2020 was lower than 2019. Could you comment a little bit about where were the cancellations either by geography and by product really to get an idea about that?

And secondly, you alluded on the new customers that you had very strong interest from women in China for the Roma. Could you talk more generally about the level of interest globally further on the Roma and also the level of interest for the SF90 Stradale on the other extreme, and particularly the amount of the proportion of people who are specifying the Assetto Fiorano additional uptake? Thank you.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Yes. Thank you, Stephen. In terms of the cancellations, we were public in the second quarter as to the fact that we had some cancellations in North America and in Australia. They were pretty much concentrated there. From then on, we haven’t seen anything specific. So, the ones that we had were usually evenly distributed throughout the various geographies. Nothing special to report.

With respect to the color on the order intake for the various model, I think it is confirmed that the Roma attracts more than any other Ferrari before, new to Ferrari’s customers, which is interesting and nice. It happens also that the SF90 attracts younger customers, more probably than we were expected. And the order book for that car is very, very long and significant pre-order has been put already some months ago. And those are probably the two mostly interesting element that you should take into account.

Stephen Reitman — Societe Generale — Analyst

And on the — and in terms of sort of the model cancellations, were they concentrated at the lower end or the higher end of the model lineup?

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

I don’t think there is any specific concentration on either the low or the high end of our range. There wasn’t any across the board.

Stephen Reitman — Societe Generale — Analyst

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Antonio Picca Piccon — Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Stephen.

Operator

Thank you. There are no further questions on the line. Please go ahead.

Nicoletta Russo — Head of Investor Relations

Thank you all. Bye-bye.

Operator

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