@Geely: Global News Wed 29 May 2024Lotus Technology Reports Unaudited First Quarter 2024 Financial Results

  • Lotus Tech recorded revenue of $173 million and gross profit margin of 18%
  • Delivered approximately 2,194 vehicles1, with global markets outside China contributing over 75% of total deliveries
  • Revealed luxury customized editions of classic sportscar and BEV lifestyle models

 

New York – May 29, 2024   Lotus Technology Inc. (“Lotus Tech” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LOT), a leading global luxury electric vehicle maker, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.

The Company achieved total revenue of $173 million in the quarter, a year-on-year growth of 811% and a gross profit margin of 18%, powered by an asset-light model and high-margin businesses including R&D services and accessories. The Company successfully launched its Chapman Bespoke service in the first quarter of 2024, providing premium customization to Lotus vehicles.

Lotus Tech delivered a total of 2,194 vehicles in the first quarter. The Company began deliveries of Emeya in China, its first electric hyper-grand tourer, and further expanded its product portfolio to four models. In the China market where the Company operates a direct-to-cuser sales model, the deliveries in the first quarter had a year-on-year growth of over 100%. Customer deliveries of Emira, the brand’s ICE sports car manufactured in the UK, also commenced in the US at the beginning of this year.

Global markets outside China contributed over 75% of the company’s deliveries in the first quarter. With a global sales network of over 200 stores in prime locations around the world, the Company continues to leverage its global distribution footprint for international expansion. After China and Europe, the Company began taking orders for Eletre in more than 10 new markets across the Middle East, Asia and the Americas in the first quarter. Lotus Tech also expects to begin expanding Emeya sales to new markets in the third quarter of the year.

“Through our unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence, we are making steady progress on delivering Lotus Tech’s Vision80 plan,” said Lotus Tech CEO Qingfeng Feng. “Our global strategy continues to drive growth and success as we expand our presence and sales across key luxury markets worldwide. We are encouraged by the positive feedback received in these new markets and look forward to rolling out new models to new geographies throughout the year.”

 Deliveries1 by model type

 

1Q 2024

1Q 2023

% Change (YoY)

FY2023

Lifestyle vehicles

1,047

236

344%

4,361

Sportscars

1,147

28

2,609

Total

2,194

264

731%

6,970

 

The below table summarizes key preliminary financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
(in millions of U.S. dollars, unaudited)

 1Q 2024

1Q 2023

% Change (YoY)

FY2023

Revenue

173

19

811%

679

Cost of Revenues

143

19

653%

577

Gross profit

30

0.2

102

Gross margin

18%

1%

15%

Operating loss

(233)

(162)

44%

(736)

Net Loss

(258)

(160)

61%

(750)

Adjusted EBITDA*

(204)

(154)

32%

(693)

*Non-GAAP measure. See Appendix C for details and a reconciliation of adjusted metrics to the nearest GAAP measure.

Recent Developments

  • Global Premiere of Emeya Blossom Limited Edition: In April, the Company revealed the Chapman Bespoke limited collection Emeya Blossom, a luxuriously customized vehicle integrating Colin Chapman’s charm into its design concept. This collection features rare gradient painting and 42 natural sapphires on the instrument panel, which garnered significant attention from viewers at the Beijing Auto Show.
  • Beijing International Automotive Exhibition: The Company showcased limited editions of Lotus vehicles including the Evija Fittipaldi, Eletre Type 79, Emira Tailor Made, Type 66 as well as Emeya Blossom, which received a high level of customer interest during the 10-day exhibition.
  • Charging Solutions: Lotus Tech entered into a strategic partnership with NIO on battery charging, granting Lotus Tech vehicles with access to NIO’s network of over 2,000 charging stations across China.
  • ESG: In May, the Company published its annual 2023 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, which outlined its achievements in building a green value chain, leading clean mobility, and upholding business integrity through the efforts in information security and privacy protection as well as in community support.

Conference Call

Lotus Tech management will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 (14:00 Central European Time / 20:00 China Standard Time on May 29, 2024) to discuss financial results and answer questions from investors and analysts.

For participants who wish to join the webcast, please register at https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/gwuvrehk.

Following completion of the call, audio replay will be available on the Company’s investor relations website: https://ir.group-lotus.com/.

For participants who wish to join the call by phone, please register at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI205823e15f3a49cdb5ade4789837bb8c.

ENDS

Note to Editors

1 Invoiced deliveries, including commissioned deliveries.

 

About Lotus Technology

Lotus Technology Inc. has operations across the UK, the EU and China. The Company is dedicated to delivering luxury lifestyle battery electric vehicles, with a focus on world-class R&D in next generation automobility technologies such as electrification, digitalisation and more. For more information about Lotus Technology Inc., please visit www.group-lotus.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted net loss and adjusted EBITDA in evaluating its operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. Adjusted net loss represents net loss excluding share-based compensation expenses, and such adjustment has no impact on income tax. Lotus Tech defines adjusted EBITDA as net loss excluding interest income, interest expense, income tax expenses, depreciation of property, equipment and software, and share-based compensation expenses. The Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures help identify underlying trends in its business and enhance the overall understanding of the Company’s past performance and future prospects. The Company also believes that the non-GAAP financial measures allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by the Company’s management in its financial and operational decision-making.

The non-GAAP financial measures are not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP and may be different from non-GAAP methods of accounting and reporting used by other companies. The non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools and when assessing the Company’s operating performance, investors should not consider them in isolation, or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company encourages investors and others to review its financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure. The Company mitigates these limitations by reconciling the non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable U.S. GAAP performance measures, all of which should be considered when evaluating the Company’s performance. For more information on the non-GAAP financial measures, please see “Appendix C – Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results (Adjusted net loss/Adjusted EBITDA)” set forth at the end of this press release.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements that may constitute “forward-looking” statements pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may”, “should”, “expect”, “intend”, “will”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “predict”, “potential”, “forecast”, “plan”, “seek”, “future”, “propose” or “continue”, or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology although not all forward-looking statements contain such terminology. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including those identified in the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and Lotus Tech undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.

Appendix A

Lotus Technology Inc.
Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets

(All amounts in thousands)

As of

Mar 31, 2024

 

Dec 31, 2023

US$

 

US$

ASSETS

 

 

 

Current assets

 

 

 

Cash

232,859

 

418,941

Restricted cash

275,657

 

7,873

Securities pledged to an investor

187,568

 

Accounts receivable – third parties, net

78,293

 

76,664

Accounts receivable – related parties, net

67,784

 

22,430

Inventories

368,514

 

265,190

Prepayments and other current assets – third parties, net

87,961

 

63,870

Prepayments and other current assets – related parties, net

34,085

 

28,744

 

 

 

Total current assets

1,332,721

 

883,712

 

 

 

Non-current assets

 

 

 

Restricted cash

1,154

 

321

Investment securities – related parties

2,063

 

3,326

Securities pledged to an investor

309,613

 

Loans receivable from a related party

202,969

 

Property, equipment and software, net

352,329

 

354,617

Intangible assets

116,359

 

116,360

Operating lease right-of-use assets

168,442

 

173,103

Other non-current assets – third parties

55,146

 

50,533

Other non-current assets – related parties

2,701

 

2,706

 

 

 

Total non-current assets

1,210,776

 

700,966

 

 

 

Total assets

2,543,497

 

1,584,678

 

Lotus Technology Inc.
Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets (cont’d)

(All amounts in thousands)

As of

Mar 31, 2024

 

Dec 31, 2023

US$

 

US$

LIABILITIES, MEZZANINE EQUITY AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)

 

 

 

Current liabilities

 

 

 

Short-term borrowings – third parties

462,801

 

226,772

Accounts payable – third parties

50,418

 

20,123

Accounts payable – related parties

394,185

 

340,419

Contract liabilities – third parties

62,118

 

44,184

Contract liabilities – related parties

227

 

Operating lease liabilities – third parties

16,186

 

16,760

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities – third parties

412,910

 

419,422

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities – related parties

303,669

 

290,686

Exchangeable notes

 

378,638

Convertible notes

 

20,277

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

1,702,514

 

1,757,281

 

 

 

Non-current liabilities

 

 

 

Contract liabilities – third parties

6,468

 

6,245

Operating lease liabilities – third parties

88,268

 

91,929

Operating lease liabilities – related parties

11,735

 

12,064

Put option liabilities – third parties

169,808

 

Put option liabilities – related parties

38

 

11,884

Exchangeable notes

76,371

 

75,678

Convertible notes

80,692

 

81,635

Warrant liabilities

7,287

 

Deferred income

270,396

 

270,097

Other non-current liabilities – third parties

108,560

 

103,403

Other non-current liabilities – related parties

1,561

 

1,634

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

821,184

 

654,569

 

 

 

Total liabilities

2,523,698

 

2,411,850

Lotus Technology Inc.
Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets (cont’d)

(All amounts in thousands)

As of

Mar 31, 2024

Dec 31, 2023

US$

US$

MEZZANINE EQUITY

 

 

Series Pre-A Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares

184,509

Series A Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares

199,021

 

 

Total mezzanine equity

383,530

 

 

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)

 

 

Ordinary shares

7

21

Additional paid-in capital

1,848,517

358,187

Accumulated other comprehensive income

23,677

25,267

Accumulated deficit

(1,846,642)

(1,588,773)

 

 

Total shareholders’ equity (deficit) attributable to ordinary shareholders

25,559

(1,205,298)

Noncontrolling interests

(5,760)

(5,404)

Total shareholders’ equity (deficit)

19,799

(1,210,702)

 

 

Total liabilities, mezzanine equity and shareholders’ equity (deficit)

2,543,497

1,584,678

Appendix B

Lotus Technology Inc.
Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss

(All amounts in thousands, except for share and per share data)

For the Three Months Ended

Mar 31, 2024

 

Mar 31, 2023

US$

 

US$

Revenues:

 

 

 

Sales of goods

160,784

 

16,483

Service revenues

12,298

 

2,638

Total revenues

173,082

 

19,121

Cost of revenues:

 

 

 

Cost of goods sold

(139,273)

 

(16,551)

Cost of services

(3,495)

 

(2,393)

Total cost of revenues

(142,768)

 

(18,944)

Gross profit

30,314

 

177

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

Research and development expenses

(104,692)

 

(65,494)

Selling and marketing expenses

(103,489)

 

(51,776)

General and administrative expenses

(56,970)

 

(45,284)

Government grants

1,519

 

605

Total operating expenses

(263,632)

 

(161,949)

Operating loss

(233,318)

 

(161,772)

Interest expenses

(3,947)

 

(434)

Interest income

1,665

 

2,769

Investment loss, net

(1,394)

 

(2,163)

Share of results of equity method investments

201

 

(465)

Foreign currency exchange gains (losses), net

(6,667)

 

3,062

Changes in fair values of mandatorily redeemable noncontrolling interest, exchangeable notes and convertible notes, excluding impact of instrument-specific credit risk

8,404

 

(2,535)

Changes in fair values of warrant liabilities

4,853

 

Changes in fair values of put option liabilities

(27,880)

 

1,874

Loss before income taxes

(258,083)

 

(159,664)

Income tax (expense) benefit

(142)

 

89

Net loss

(258,225)

 

(159,575)

Less: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests

(356)

 

(1,918)

Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders

(257,869)

 

(157,657)

Accretion of Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares

(2,979)

 

(7,248)

Net loss available to ordinary shareholders

(260,848)

 

(164,905)

Loss per ordinary share

 

 

 

—Basic and diluted

(0.47)

 

(0.35)

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding used in computing net loss per ordinary share

 

 

 

—Basic and diluted

558,429,003

 

474,621,603

 

 

 

Lotus Technology Inc.
Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss (cont’d)

(All amounts in thousands, except for share and per share data)

 

For the Three Months Ended

Mar 31, 2024

 

Mar 31, 2023

US$

 

US$

Net loss

(258,225)

 

(159,575)

     

Other comprehensive loss:

     

Fair value changes of mandatorily redeemable noncontrolling interest, exchangeable notes and convertible notes due to instrument-specific credit risk, net of nil income taxes

(175)

 

(1,042)

Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of nil income taxes

(1,415)

 

(7,037)

     

Total other comprehensive loss

(1,590)

 

(8,079)

     

Total comprehensive loss

(259,815)

 

(167,654)

Less: Total comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interests

(356)

 

(1,918)

Total comprehensive loss attributable to ordinary shareholders

(259,459)

 

(165,736)

         

Appendix C

Lotus Technology Inc.

Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP results (Adjusted net loss/Adjusted EBITDA)

(All amounts in thousands)

For the Three Months Ended

Mar 31, 2024

 

Mar 31, 2023

US$

 

US$

Net loss

(258,225)

 

(159,575)

Share-based compensation expenses

35,323

 

Adjusted net loss

(222,902)

 

(159,575)

Net loss

(258,225)

 

(159,575)

Interest expenses

3,947

 

434

Interest income

(1,665)

 

(2,769)

Income tax expense(benefit)

142

 

(89)

Depreciation

16,174

 

7,604

Share-based compensation expenses

35,323

 

Adjusted EBITDA

(204,304)

 

(154,395)

 

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