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Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)
Q2 2014 Results Earnings Conference Call
July 24, 2014; 08:30 a.m. ET
Executives
Mark Fields – President & Chief Executive Officer
Bob Shanks – Chief Financial Officer
Stuart Rowley – Corporate Controller
Neil Schloss – Corporate Treasurer
Paul Andonian – Director of Accounting
Mike Seneski – Ford Credit, Chief Financial Officer
George Sharp – Executive Director of Investor Relations
Analysts
George Galliers – ISI
Brian Johnson – Barclays
Colin Langan – UBS
Patrick Archambault – Goldman Sachs
Adam Jonas – Morgan Stanley
Joe Spak – RBC Capital Markets
Ryan Brinkman – JPMorgan
John Murphy – Bank of America
Dee-Ann Durbin – AP
Emmanuel Rosner – CLSA
Rod Lache – Deutsche Bank
Itay Michaeli – Citigroup
Operator
Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to your Ford, Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call. My name is Kanti and I’m your operator for today.
At this time all participants are on listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session towards the end of the conference. (Operator Instructions). As a reminder, this call is being recorded for replay purposes.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. George Sharp, Executive Director of Investor Relations. Please proceed sir.
George Sharp – Executive Director of Investor Relations
Thank you Kanti and good morning everyone. I’d like to welcome you and thank you for joining us today either by phone or webcast. On behalf of the entire Ford management team, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to be with us this morning, so we can provide you with additional details of our second quarter 2014 financial results.
Now, presenting today are Mark Fields, who became President and CEO of Ford earlier this month, and Bob Shanks, our Chief Financial Officer. Also participating are Stuart Rowley, Corporate Controller; Neil Schloss, Corporate Treasurer; Paul Andonian, Director of Accounting; and Mike Seneski, Ford Credit CFO.
Now, copies of this morning’s press release and presentation slides are available on Ford’s Investor and Media websites. The financial results discussed today are preliminary and include references to non-GAAP financial measures.
Now any non-GAAP financial measure are reconciled to the U.S. GAAP equivalent in the appendix of the slide deck, and final data will be included in our Form 10-Q. Now finally, today’s presentation includes some forward-looking statements about our expectations for Ford’s future performance. Of course, actual results could be different.
The most significant factors that could affect future results are summarized at the end of this presentation and detailed in our SEC filings.
With that, I’d now like to turn the presentation over to Mark.
Mark Fields – President & Chief Executive Officer
Thanks George. I’m really pleased to join you this morning and today we’ll review our second quarter financial results, the details behind them and our outlook ahead. So let’s get right into the first slide.
Our strong results this quarter are due once again to the success of our ONE Ford plan, which remains unchanged. We are continuing to focus on all four elements of the plan. They have served us very well and will continue to be our focus going forward.
We also plan to build on our success by accelerating the pace of progress throughout our business. In many ways we are just starting to see the full benefits and strength of ONE Ford and we intend to maximize these opportunities going forward.
At the same time, we are passionate about product excellence and leading in innovation. We are committed to building on the product strength today, with even more new products and innovations that will deliver growth for our stakeholders and define our company going forward.
Now let’s turn to slide two for a look at the second quarter. Overall, we delivered a strong quarter. We achieved our 20th consecutive profitable quarter and our best quarterly pretax profit since the second quarter of 2011.
We also delivered positive automotive operating related cash flow and ended the quarter once again with strong liquidity. Although second quarter wholesale volume and revenue declined 1% year-over-year, we achieved higher market share in Asia Pacific, driven by record share in China.
All automotive business units contributed to the company’s pretax profit, and all improved from a year ago, with the exception of South America. North America achieved record quarterly performance for pretax profit; Asia Pacific achieved a second quarter record; and Europe earned its first quarterly profit since the market dramatically declined three years ago. Ford Credit once again delivered solid results.
As we’ve said, this year is the most aggressive in our history for new product launches. We remain on track with our 23 global product launches. Our full-year outlook for the company pretax profit is unchanged, ranging from $7 billion to $8 billion. Our outlook for automotive revenue and operating margin also remains unchanged.
Today, we are improving our outlook for automotive operating related cash flow to lower than a year ago, from substantially lower, due to the strong cash flow generated in the first half. As we look forward, we expect the payoff of our investments this year will be a strong product line up, with higher volumes, revenues and margins in 2015 and beyond.
Let’s turn to slide three to recap some of the quarter’s other achievements. Both our Ford and Lincoln brands made strong improvements in the latest J.D. Power 2014 U.S. Initial Quality Study, with the F-150, Edge and Lincoln MKX ranking highest in their segments.
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