在3月3日舉行的首次電話財(cái)報(bào)會(huì)議上,Stellantis集團(tuán)的首席執(zhí)行官唐唯實(shí)(Carlos Tavares)重申了自己的觀點(diǎn)——他反對(duì)外界這么快就將該公司定義為“一個(gè)新時(shí)代”。
在電話會(huì)議進(jìn)行到后半段時(shí),唐唯實(shí)表示:“雖然我們的集團(tuán)是由傳統(tǒng)車企合并而來,但我們并不擔(dān)心這就意味著墨守成規(guī),并會(huì)因此落伍。”在此之前,他已經(jīng)將類似的觀點(diǎn)重復(fù)了至少十幾次。他說:“我們不會(huì)成為守舊過時(shí)的人?!贝送?,他還一遍又一遍地重復(fù)著“顛覆者”和“創(chuàng)新者”這兩個(gè)詞。
唐唯實(shí)的發(fā)言聽起來似乎有些咄咄逼人,但結(jié)合集團(tuán)成立的背景,這情有可原。今年1月中旬,標(biāo)致(Peugeot Group)和菲亞特克萊斯勒(Fiat Chrysler)兩家車企正式合并,Stellantis集團(tuán)誕生——從銷量上來看,Stellantis現(xiàn)在是全球第四大汽車制造商。然而,標(biāo)致和菲亞特克萊斯勒是歐洲僅存的兩家大型“老字號(hào)”家族車企,并且都不以技術(shù)見長。在電動(dòng)汽車和無人駕駛技術(shù)方面,兩家公司更是位列二線。同時(shí),在全球規(guī)模最大、增長最快的汽車市場(chǎng)——中國,兩家公司都反響平平,幾乎沒有引起過太大的水花。
就在幾周以前,兩家公司正式合并,并以全新的股票代碼STLA首次亮相巴黎、米蘭和紐約的證券交易所——唐唯實(shí)作為標(biāo)致的前負(fù)責(zé)人在老東家巴黎開盤,菲亞特克萊斯勒的前負(fù)責(zé)人拉波·埃爾坎在自己的根據(jù)地米蘭開盤。第二天,兩人又一起飛往紐約——沒過多久,唐唯實(shí)就宣布了集團(tuán)即將進(jìn)行的一系列改革。
“如果要將唐唯實(shí)的觀點(diǎn)一言以蔽之,就是他在向投資者、供應(yīng)商和其他利益相關(guān)者聲明,‘我們也可以創(chuàng)新?!币獯罄鹑谌?qǐng)?bào)《24小時(shí)太陽報(bào)》(Il Sole/24 Ore)的常駐汽車業(yè)分析師帕羅·布里科告訴《財(cái)富》雜志——他還著有幾本關(guān)于菲亞特集團(tuán)的書。
唐唯實(shí)說,電動(dòng)汽車是公司新的發(fā)展重點(diǎn),他計(jì)劃投入數(shù)十億美元來研發(fā)體量更輕、容量更高、充電更快的電池。公司的相關(guān)管理人員也表示,預(yù)計(jì)會(huì)有一些新的電動(dòng)汽車車型將在2022年和2023年登場(chǎng)。他們還補(bǔ)充說,合并之后,Stellantis集團(tuán)內(nèi)部的14個(gè)汽車品牌將采用通用的框架和技術(shù),從而降低成本、加快研發(fā)速度。
唐唯實(shí)還提及了對(duì)“垂直起降飛機(jī)”行業(yè)的領(lǐng)先者Archer Aviation公司的投資——這是說明該公司正在努力成為技術(shù)先鋒的另一個(gè)例子。
中國市場(chǎng),特斯拉和碳排放額度轉(zhuǎn)讓許可
在談及“Stellantis集團(tuán)的中國市場(chǎng)難題”時(shí),唐唯實(shí)則立即否認(rèn)了外界的一項(xiàng)猜測(cè),即認(rèn)為該公司可能會(huì)完全放棄復(fù)雜的中國市場(chǎng)。他說:“我們不會(huì)放棄任何一個(gè)地方?!彼]有詳細(xì)說明公司要對(duì)中國這一全球第二大經(jīng)濟(jì)體實(shí)施怎樣的計(jì)劃,只是說,在中國打開銷路的品牌要契合中國人的口味,在他們心中開拓出一席之地。他說:“我們要避免自己的品牌在中國完全失去其獨(dú)特的價(jià)值,而淪為完全同質(zhì)化、純靠?jī)r(jià)格競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的商品。”
特斯拉(Tesla)是全球最有價(jià)值的汽車制造商,也曾經(jīng)多次被視為組織和創(chuàng)新的典范。當(dāng)談到標(biāo)致和菲亞特克萊斯勒去年向特斯拉購買的碳排放額度時(shí),一位主管表示,他們今年在這一方面還將花費(fèi)約3億歐元(約合3.65億美元),與2020年兩家公司尚未合并時(shí)的金額基本持平。這對(duì)看漲特斯拉的多頭來說是個(gè)好消息,因?yàn)檎沁@種準(zhǔn)許轉(zhuǎn)讓碳排放額度的規(guī)定給特斯拉帶來了大部分利潤。
3月3日的財(cái)報(bào)是以Stellantis的名義發(fā)出的第一份——因此,這項(xiàng)報(bào)告同時(shí)以法文、意大利文和英文發(fā)布,但實(shí)際上,它們也是前任公司的最后一份財(cái)報(bào)。該報(bào)告稱,標(biāo)致調(diào)整后的營業(yè)利潤率為7.1%,利潤總額為34億歐元,菲亞特克萊斯勒調(diào)整后的利潤率為4.3%,凈利潤為19億歐元。
如果兩家公司在2020年合并,那新公司當(dāng)年的營業(yè)利潤率應(yīng)該是5.9%,或者在雙方對(duì)2021年預(yù)估的5.5%至7.5%的中位數(shù)附近。這說明從財(cái)務(wù)報(bào)表上看,一個(gè)“創(chuàng)新的新時(shí)代”尚未到來,起碼還沒有立刻到來。但該公司承諾,在未來幾個(gè)季度會(huì)表現(xiàn)出更高的盈利能力。
盡管唐唯實(shí)在3月3日發(fā)表了野心勃勃的講話,但從市場(chǎng)的反應(yīng)來看,還是那些最不看好Stellantis的人猜對(duì)了結(jié)局——大西洋兩岸的投資者都讓這家汽車制造商的股票下跌了。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
編譯:陳聰聰
在3月3日舉行的首次電話財(cái)報(bào)會(huì)議上,Stellantis集團(tuán)的首席執(zhí)行官唐唯實(shí)(Carlos Tavares)重申了自己的觀點(diǎn)——他反對(duì)外界這么快就將該公司定義為“一個(gè)新時(shí)代”。
在電話會(huì)議進(jìn)行到后半段時(shí),唐唯實(shí)表示:“雖然我們的集團(tuán)是由傳統(tǒng)車企合并而來,但我們并不擔(dān)心這就意味著墨守成規(guī),并會(huì)因此落伍?!痹诖酥埃呀?jīng)將類似的觀點(diǎn)重復(fù)了至少十幾次。他說:“我們不會(huì)成為守舊過時(shí)的人。”此外,他還一遍又一遍地重復(fù)著“顛覆者”和“創(chuàng)新者”這兩個(gè)詞。
唐唯實(shí)的發(fā)言聽起來似乎有些咄咄逼人,但結(jié)合集團(tuán)成立的背景,這情有可原。今年1月中旬,標(biāo)致(Peugeot Group)和菲亞特克萊斯勒(Fiat Chrysler)兩家車企正式合并,Stellantis集團(tuán)誕生——從銷量上來看,Stellantis現(xiàn)在是全球第四大汽車制造商。然而,標(biāo)致和菲亞特克萊斯勒是歐洲僅存的兩家大型“老字號(hào)”家族車企,并且都不以技術(shù)見長。在電動(dòng)汽車和無人駕駛技術(shù)方面,兩家公司更是位列二線。同時(shí),在全球規(guī)模最大、增長最快的汽車市場(chǎng)——中國,兩家公司都反響平平,幾乎沒有引起過太大的水花。
就在幾周以前,兩家公司正式合并,并以全新的股票代碼STLA首次亮相巴黎、米蘭和紐約的證券交易所——唐唯實(shí)作為標(biāo)致的前負(fù)責(zé)人在老東家巴黎開盤,菲亞特克萊斯勒的前負(fù)責(zé)人拉波·埃爾坎在自己的根據(jù)地米蘭開盤。第二天,兩人又一起飛往紐約——沒過多久,唐唯實(shí)就宣布了集團(tuán)即將進(jìn)行的一系列改革。
“如果要將唐唯實(shí)的觀點(diǎn)一言以蔽之,就是他在向投資者、供應(yīng)商和其他利益相關(guān)者聲明,‘我們也可以創(chuàng)新?!币獯罄鹑谌?qǐng)?bào)《24小時(shí)太陽報(bào)》(Il Sole/24 Ore)的常駐汽車業(yè)分析師帕羅·布里科告訴《財(cái)富》雜志——他還著有幾本關(guān)于菲亞特集團(tuán)的書。
唐唯實(shí)說,電動(dòng)汽車是公司新的發(fā)展重點(diǎn),他計(jì)劃投入數(shù)十億美元來研發(fā)體量更輕、容量更高、充電更快的電池。公司的相關(guān)管理人員也表示,預(yù)計(jì)會(huì)有一些新的電動(dòng)汽車車型將在2022年和2023年登場(chǎng)。他們還補(bǔ)充說,合并之后,Stellantis集團(tuán)內(nèi)部的14個(gè)汽車品牌將采用通用的框架和技術(shù),從而降低成本、加快研發(fā)速度。
唐唯實(shí)還提及了對(duì)“垂直起降飛機(jī)”行業(yè)的領(lǐng)先者Archer Aviation公司的投資——這是說明該公司正在努力成為技術(shù)先鋒的另一個(gè)例子。
中國市場(chǎng),特斯拉和碳排放額度轉(zhuǎn)讓許可
在談及“Stellantis集團(tuán)的中國市場(chǎng)難題”時(shí),唐唯實(shí)則立即否認(rèn)了外界的一項(xiàng)猜測(cè),即認(rèn)為該公司可能會(huì)完全放棄復(fù)雜的中國市場(chǎng)。他說:“我們不會(huì)放棄任何一個(gè)地方?!彼]有詳細(xì)說明公司要對(duì)中國這一全球第二大經(jīng)濟(jì)體實(shí)施怎樣的計(jì)劃,只是說,在中國打開銷路的品牌要契合中國人的口味,在他們心中開拓出一席之地。他說:“我們要避免自己的品牌在中國完全失去其獨(dú)特的價(jià)值,而淪為完全同質(zhì)化、純靠?jī)r(jià)格競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的商品?!?/p>
特斯拉(Tesla)是全球最有價(jià)值的汽車制造商,也曾經(jīng)多次被視為組織和創(chuàng)新的典范。當(dāng)談到標(biāo)致和菲亞特克萊斯勒去年向特斯拉購買的碳排放額度時(shí),一位主管表示,他們今年在這一方面還將花費(fèi)約3億歐元(約合3.65億美元),與2020年兩家公司尚未合并時(shí)的金額基本持平。這對(duì)看漲特斯拉的多頭來說是個(gè)好消息,因?yàn)檎沁@種準(zhǔn)許轉(zhuǎn)讓碳排放額度的規(guī)定給特斯拉帶來了大部分利潤。
3月3日的財(cái)報(bào)是以Stellantis的名義發(fā)出的第一份——因此,這項(xiàng)報(bào)告同時(shí)以法文、意大利文和英文發(fā)布,但實(shí)際上,它們也是前任公司的最后一份財(cái)報(bào)。該報(bào)告稱,標(biāo)致調(diào)整后的營業(yè)利潤率為7.1%,利潤總額為34億歐元,菲亞特克萊斯勒調(diào)整后的利潤率為4.3%,凈利潤為19億歐元。
如果兩家公司在2020年合并,那新公司當(dāng)年的營業(yè)利潤率應(yīng)該是5.9%,或者在雙方對(duì)2021年預(yù)估的5.5%至7.5%的中位數(shù)附近。這說明從財(cái)務(wù)報(bào)表上看,一個(gè)“創(chuàng)新的新時(shí)代”尚未到來,起碼還沒有立刻到來。但該公司承諾,在未來幾個(gè)季度會(huì)表現(xiàn)出更高的盈利能力。
盡管唐唯實(shí)在3月3日發(fā)表了野心勃勃的講話,但從市場(chǎng)的反應(yīng)來看,還是那些最不看好Stellantis的人猜對(duì)了結(jié)局——大西洋兩岸的投資者都讓這家汽車制造商的股票下跌了。(財(cái)富中文網(wǎng))
編譯:陳聰聰
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares made a point of repeating himself during the company’s first-ever earnings call on March 3, vowing he would not allow the company to be defined by critics so soon into a new era.
“We will not be cornered as a legacy company,” Tavares said late in the call, echoing a point he made at least a dozen times before that. “We will not be a dinosaur.” The words “disrupter” and “innovator” were repeated over and over, too.
You can forgive Tavares if he appeared defensive on those points. The Peugeot Group and Fiat Chrysler—the companies that formally merged in mid-January to form Stellantis, now the world’s fourth-largest carmaker based on sales—were the last two major family-owned carmakers left in Europe, and neither was known as a technological pacesetter. Both companies had been second-tier players when it came to electric vehicle technologies and self-driving cars, and combined they were barely a blip in China, the world’s largest and fastest-growing car market.
But just weeks after the STLA ticker symbol first appeared on the stock exchanges in Paris, Milan, and New York with great excitement—Tavares and ex–Fiat Chrysler head Lapo Elkann were on hand for each’s home-market opening and then flew together to New York for the opening there the following day—Tavares announced all that is going to change.
“If you could reduce Tavares’s remarks to a single idea, he was telling investors, suppliers, and other stakeholders, ‘We too can innovate,’” Paolo Bricco, a longtime auto-sector analyst with the Italian financial daily Il Sole/24 Ore and the author of several books about Fiat, told Fortune.
Tavares said electric cars were the company’s new main focus, with plans to sink billions into the development of lighter, higher-capacity, and faster-charging batteries. Officials said several new electric car models are expected to hit showroom floors in 2022 and 2023, adding that the merger would allow for the use of common frames and technologies to be used in most of Stellantis’s 14 brands, driving down costs and speeding up development.
Tavares cited the investment in Archer Aviation, a leader in “vertical flying vehicles,” as another example of the company’s dedication to being on the technological vanguard.
On China, Tesla, and permits
When it comes to what the CEO called Stellantis’s “China problem,” Tavares immediately quashed speculation that the company might elect to abandon the complex Chinese market altogether. “We aren’t going anywhere,” he said. He wouldn’t elaborate on the company’s plans in the world’s second-largest economy except to say that brands there needed to carve out a niche in the Chinese psyche. “We need to avoid commoditization” of our brands in China he said.
Tesla, the world’s most valuable carmaker, came up several times as a model for organization and innovation. When it came to the emissions credits Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler bought from Tesla last year, an official said they would spend around €300 million ($365 million) this year, roughly in line with the amount spent by the separate companies in 2020. That ought to be good news for Tesla bulls as those permits make up a huge chunk of Tesla’s profits.
The financial results released on March 3 were the first under the Stellantis banner—as such, they were released simultaneously in French, Italian, and English—but they were technically the final report cards on the predecessor companies. The company reported a 7.1% adjusted operating margin worth €3.4 billion for Peugeot and a 4.3% margin and an adjusted net profit of €1.9 billion for Fiat Chrysler.
If they had been combined in 2020, the companies’ operating income margin would have been 5.9%, or near the middle of the range of 5.5% to 7.5% in the duo’s forward guidance for 2021, showing that the new era of innovation won’t appear on the balance sheet, at least not immediately. But the company is sticking with its promise to show improved profitability in the quarters ahead.
Despite Tavares’s defiant presentation on March 3, it was Stellantis’s toughest critics who had the last word. Investors on both sides of the Atlantic sent shares in the automaker downward.